VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Mhna Massalha
dblp:401/0379
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
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| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Approximation and online algorithms · 77% Mathematical optimization · 23% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Approximation and online algorithms › online learning
blackwell approachability |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Blackwell's Approachability with Approximation Algorithms · COLT 2025 |
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downward closure · 0.9approximation algorithm · 0.9approachability · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Blackwell's Approachability with Approximation AlgorithmsabstractWe revisit Blackwell’s celebrated approachability problem which considers a repeated vector-valued game between a player and an adversary. Motivated by settings in which the action set of the player or adversary (or both) is difficult to optimize over, for instance when it corresponds to the set of all possible solutions to some NP-Hard optimization problem, we ask what can the player guarantee \textit{efficiently}, when only having access to these sets via approximation algorithms with ratios $\alpha_{\mX} \geq 1$ and $ 1 \geq \alpha_{\mY} > 0$, respectively. Assuming the player has monotone preferences, i.e., that he does not prefer a vector-valued loss $\ell_1$ over $\ell_2$ if $\ell_2 \leq \ell_1$, we establish that given a Blackwell instance with an approachable target set $S$, the downward closure of the appropriately-scaled set $\alpha_{\mX}\alpha_{\mY}^{-1}S$ is \textit{efficiently} approachable with optimal rate. In case only the player’s or adversary’s set is equipped with an approximation algorithm, we give simpler and more efficient algorithms. Dan Garber, Mhna Massalha |
COLT | 2 |