4 papers
Towards Optimal Estimators for Randomized Control Trials
Harsh Parikh, Gabriel Levin-Konigsberg, Nilesh Tripuraneni +5
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are fundamental tools for causal inference across technology companies, pharmaceutical research, and federal agencies. While the standard differ…
A shared-revenue Bertrand game
Raj Pabari, Udaya Ghai, Dominique Perrault-Joncas +6
We introduce and analyze a variation of the Bertrand game in which the revenue is shared between two players. This game models situations in which one economic agent can provide go…
Speculative Knowledge Distillation: Bridging the Teacher-Student Gap Through Interleaved Sampling
Wenda Xu, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang +7
Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised…
Scaling Laws for Imitation Learning in Single-Agent Games
Jens Tuyls, Dhruv Madeka, Kari Torkkola +3
Imitation Learning (IL) is one of the most widely used methods in machine learning. Yet, many works find it is often unable to fully recover the underlying expert behavior, even in…