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most citedOnline Statistical Inference for Contextual Bandits via Stochastic Gradient Descent

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Online Statistical Inference for Contextual Bandits via Stochastic Gradient Descent

Xiangyu Chang, Xi Chen, Zehua Lai +3

With the fast development of big data, learning the optimal decision rule by recursively updating it and making online decisions has been easier than before. We study the online st…

math.OC2025

Stiefel optimization is NP-hard

Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, Tianyun Tang

We show that linearly constrained linear optimization over a Stiefel or Grassmann manifold is NP-hard in general. We show that the same is true for unconstrained quadratic optimiza…

math.DG2025

Simple matrix expressions for the curvatures of Grassmannian

Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, Ke Ye

We show that modeling a Grassmannian as symmetric orthogonal matrices $\operatorname{Gr}(k,\mathbb{R}^n) \cong\{Q \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n} : Q^{\scriptscriptstyle\mathsf{T}} Q =…

math.AG2025

Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture is true for splines

Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim

We prove the Pierce--Birkhoff conjecture for splines, i.e., continuous piecewise polynomials of degree in variables on a hyperplane partition of , can be writ…

math.OC2025

Euclidean distance degree in manifold optimization

Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, Ke Ye

We determine the Euclidean distance degrees of the three most common manifolds arising in manifold optimization: flag, Grassmann, and Stiefel manifolds. For the Grassmannian, we wi…

math.OC2024

Grassmannian optimization is NP-hard

Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, Ke Ye

We show that unconstrained quadratic optimization over a Grassmannian is NP-hard. Our results cover all scenarios: (i) when and are both allowed to…