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most citedEstimate-Then-Optimize versus Integrated-Estimation-Optimization versus Sample Average Approximation: A Stochastic Dominance Perspective

4 citations · 6 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

The Evidence Ladder for Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare: From Retrospective Policies to Trusted Interventions

Yunfan Zhao

Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a natural language for healthcare decisions whose conse- quences unfold over time, yet most reported progress remains far from routine interventi…

stat.ML2023★ 4 cited

Estimate-Then-Optimize versus Integrated-Estimation-Optimization versus Sample Average Approximation: A Stochastic Dominance Perspective

Adam N. Elmachtoub, Henry Lam, Haofeng Zhang +1

In data-driven stochastic optimization, model parameters of the underlying distribution need to be estimated from data in addition to the optimization task. Recent literature consi…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Balanced Off-Policy Evaluation for Personalized Pricing

Adam N. Elmachtoub, Vishal Gupta, Yunfan Zhao

We consider a personalized pricing problem in which we have data consisting of feature information, historical pricing decisions, and binary realized demand. The goal is to perform…

cs.LG2022

Implicit Two-Tower Policies

Yunfan Zhao, Qingkai Pan, Krzysztof Choromanski +2

We present a new class of structured reinforcement learning policy-architectures, Implicit Two-Tower (ITT) policies, where the actions are chosen based on the attention scores of t…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Nuances in Margin Conditions Determine Gains in Active Learning

Samory Kpotufe, Gan Yuan, Yunfan Zhao

We consider nonparametric classification with smooth regression functions, where it is well known that notions of margin in determine fast or slow rates in both active and…