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Mert Demirer
dblp:241/7271
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2019
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › continuous control
continuous action space |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
off-policy evaluation |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › off-policy reinforcement learning
off-policy policy optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy learning |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions · NeurIPS 2019 |
Mathematical optimization › statistical estimation › semiparametric estimation
doubly robust estimation |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions · NeurIPS 2019 |
Mathematical optimization › statistical estimation › semiparametric estimation
semiparametric efficiency |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions · NeurIPS 2019 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semiparametric statistics · 0.8policy gradient · 0.8doubly robust estimation · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous ActionsabstractWe consider off-policy evaluation and optimization with continuous action spaces. We focus on observational data where the data collection policy is unknown and needs to be estimated from data. We take a semi-parametric approach where the value function takes a known parametric form in the treatment, but we are agnostic on how it depends on the observed contexts. We propose a doubly robust off-policy estimate for this setting and show that off-policy optimization based on this doubly robust estimate is robust to estimation errors of the policy function or the regression model. We also show that the variance of our off-policy estimate achieves the semi-parametric efficiency bound. Our results also apply if the model does not satisfy our semi-parametric form but rather we measure regret in terms of the best projection of the true value function to this functional space. Our work extends prior approaches of policy optimization from observational data that only considered discrete actions. We provide an experimental evaluation of our method in a synthetic data example motivated by optimal personalized pricing. Victor Chernozhukov, Mert Demirer, Greg Lewis, Vasilis Syrgkanis |
NeurIPS | 2 |