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Sublinear Optimal Policy Value Estimation in Contextual Bandits
Weihao Kong, Gregory Valiant, Emma Brunskill
We study the problem of estimating the expected reward of the optimal policy in the stochastic disjoint linear bandit setting. We prove that for certain settings it is possible to…
Optimal Estimation of Change in a Population of Parameters
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Weihao Kong, Sham M. Kakade
Paired estimation of change in parameters of interest over a population plays a central role in several application domains including those in the social sciences, epidemiology, me…
Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Learning Populations of Parameters
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Weihao Kong, Gregory Valiant +1
Consider a setting with independent individuals, each with an unknown parameter, drawn from some unknown distribution . After observing the outcomes o…