VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zain Ulabedeen Farhat
dblp:410/3967
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
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% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
model-free reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Model-Free Offline Reinforcement Learning with Enhanced Robustness · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
offline reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Model-Free Offline Reinforcement Learning with Enhanced Robustness · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › offline reinforcement learning
robust offline reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Model-Free Offline Reinforcement Learning with Enhanced Robustness · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sample complexity analysis · 0.9double-pessimism principle · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Model-Free Offline Reinforcement Learning with Enhanced RobustnessabstractOffline reinforcement learning (RL) has gained considerable attention for its ability to learn policies from pre-collected data without real-time interaction, which makes it particularly useful for high-risk applications. However, due to its reliance on offline datasets, existing works inevitably introduce assumptions to ensure effective learning, which, however, often lead to a trade-off between robustness to model mismatch and scalability to large environments. In this paper, we enhance both aspects with a novel double-pessimism principle, which conservatively estimates performance and accounts for both limited data and potential model mismatches, two major reasons for the previous trade-off. We then propose a universal, model-free algorithm to learn a policy that is robust to potential environment mismatches, which enhances robustness in a scalable manner. Furthermore, we provide a sample complexity analysis of our algorithm when the mismatch is modeled by the $l_\alpha$-norm, which also theoretically demonstrates the efficiency of our method. Extensive experiments further demonstrate that our approach significantly improves robustness in a more scalable manner than existing methods. Zain Ulabedeen Farhat, George Atia, Yue Wang 0068 |
ICLR | 2 |