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5 papers

stat.ML2026

Minimax Generalized Cross-Entropy

Kartheek Bondugula, Santiago Mazuelas, Aritz Pérez +1

Loss functions play a central role in supervised classification. Cross-entropy (CE) is widely used, whereas the mean absolute error (MAE) loss can offer robustness but is difficult…

cs.LG2026

Q-Learning with Shift-Aware Upper Confidence Bound in Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning

Ha Manh Bui, Felix Parker, Kimia Ghobadi +1

We study the Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning (RL) under distribution shifts in both finite-horizon episodic and infinite-horizon discounted Markov Decision Processes (MDPs).…

math.OC2026

ADMM-based Bilevel Descent Aggregation Algorithm for Sparse Hyperparameter Selection

Yunhai Xiao, Anqi Liu, Peili Li +1

It is widely acknowledged that hyperparameter selection plays a critical role in the effectiveness of sparse optimization problems. The bilevel optimization provides a robust frame…

cs.LG2025

Calibrated Uncertainty Sampling for Active Learning

Ha Manh Bui, Iliana Maifeld-Carucci, Anqi Liu

We study the problem of actively learning a classifier with a low calibration error. One of the most popular Acquisition Functions (AFs) in pool-based Active Learning (AL) is query…

cs.LG2025

Variance-Aware Linear UCB with Deep Representation for Neural Contextual Bandits

Ha Manh Bui, Enrique Mallada, Anqi Liu

By leveraging the representation power of deep neural networks, neural upper confidence bound (UCB) algorithms have shown success in contextual bandits. To further balance the expl…