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Estimating the Value of PersonalizationBridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems (Simons Institute, 2026)2026-01-12
Introduces a new estimator that, from historical data, tests whether a personalized policy yields higher expected outcomes than the best one-size-fits-all…
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EnglishBot: An AI-Powered Conversational System for Second Language LearningIUI 20212021-04-13
EnglishBot is a voice-based chatbot with deep-learning speech recognition (94.5% speech recognition accuracy), adaptive English feedback and Chinese hints…
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Panel DiscussionReinforcement Learning from Batch Data and Simulation2020-11-30
Panelists argue that in the next five years batch/offline RL will move from demos to real-world proposals for policy design (e.g. tax or macro suggestions) and…
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Better Learning from the Past: Counterfactual / Batch RLEmerging Challenges in Deep Learning (Simons Institute workshop, 2019)2019-08-05
Counterfactual batch RL techniques estimate and optimize policies from logged data using importance-weighted stationary-distribution ratios and doubly robust…
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A Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning IFoundations of Machine Learning Boot Camp 20172017-01-23
Concise tutorial on reinforcement learning that defines MDPs, contrasts model‑based vs model‑free (tabular Bellman backups and Q‑learning), and treats…
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A Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning IIFoundations of Machine Learning Boot Camp 20172017-01-23
Summarizes regret bounds and practical fixes: UCRL-2 gives regret scaling O(D · S · sqrt(A T) · log(T/δ)) under finite diameter while gap-dependent bounds can…
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Interface Design Optimization as a Multi-Armed Bandit ProblemCHI 20162016-05-07
Researchers apply UCB1 and a variant of upper confidence bounds to a live online math game with thousands of players and run meta-experiments (~10,000…
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