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Elynn Y. Chen
dblp:239/8565 · also Elynn Chen
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7ranked-venue papers
0as first author
7since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-7599-1828ORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 6 · 6 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 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.
| Theoretical computer science
2 papers |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Reinforcement learning · 67% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 33% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational finance and economics · 100% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 9, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › value-based reinforcement learning
q-learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transfer Q-Learning with Composite MDP Structures · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
transfer learning in reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transfer Q-Learning with Composite MDP Structures · ICML 2025 |
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security
maximal extractable value |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Maximal Extractable Value in Batch Auctions · EC 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › dynamic pricing
contextual dynamic pricing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transfer Faster, Price Smarter: Minimax Dynamic Pricing under Cross-Market Preference Shift · NeurIPS 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
dynamic pricing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transfer Faster, Price Smarter: Minimax Dynamic Pricing under Cross-Market Preference Shift · NeurIPS 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
mechanism design |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Maximal Extractable Value in Batch Auctions · EC 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
regret minimization |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Transfer Faster, Price Smarter: Minimax Dynamic Pricing under Cross-Market Preference Shift · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
game-theoretic analysis · 2.6transfer learning · 1.7robust aggregation · 1.7reproducing kernel hilbert space · 1.7low-rank plus sparse decomposition · 0.9composite MDP · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Conditional Prediction ROC Bands for Graph ClassificationabstractGraph classification in medical imaging and drug discovery requires accuracy and robust uncertainty quantification. To address this need, we introduce Conditional Prediction ROC (CP-ROC) bands, offering uncertainty quantification for ROC curves and robustness to distributional shifts in test data. Although developed for Tensorized Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs), CP-ROC is adaptable to general Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and other machine learning models. We establish statistically guaranteed coverage for CP-ROC under a local exchangeability condition. This addresses uncertainty challenges for ROC curves under non-iid setting, ensuring reliability when test graph distributions differ from training data. Empirically, to establish local exchangeability for TGNNs, we introduce a data-driven approach to construct local calibration sets for graphs. Comprehensive evaluations show that CP-ROC significantly improves prediction reliability across diverse tasks. This method enhances uncertainty quantification efficiency and reliability for ROC curves, proving valuable for real-world applications with non-iid objects. Yujia Wu, Elynn Y. Chen, Zheshi Zheng |
AISTATS | 3 |
| 2025 | Transfer Q-Learning with Composite MDP StructuresabstractTo bridge the gap between empirical success and theoretical understanding in transfer reinforcement learning (RL), we study a principled approach with provable performance guarantees. We introduce a novel composite MDP framework where high-dimensional transition dynamics are modeled as the sum of a low-rank component representing shared structure and a sparse component capturing task-specific variations. This relaxes the common assumption of purely low-rank transition models, allowing for more realistic scenarios where tasks share core dynamics but maintain individual variations. We introduce UCB-TQL (Upper Confidence Bound Transfer Q-Learning), designed for transfer RL scenarios where multiple tasks share core linear MDP dynamics but diverge along sparse dimensions. When applying UCB-TQL to a target task after training on a source task with sufficient trajectories, we achieve a regret bound of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{eH^5N})$ that scales independently of the ambient dimension. Here, $N$ represents the number of trajectories in the target task, while $e$ quantifies the sparse differences between tasks. This result demonstrates substantial improvement over single task RL by effectively leveraging their structural similarities. Our theoretical analysis provides rigorous guarantees for how UCB-TQL simultaneously exploits shared dynamics while adapting to task-specific variations. Jinhang Chai, Elynn Y. Chen |
ICML | 2 |
| 2025 | Transfer Faster, Price Smarter: Minimax Dynamic Pricing under Cross-Market Preference ShiftabstractWe study contextual dynamic pricing when a target market can leverage $K$ auxiliary markets—offline logs or concurrent streams—whose *mean utilities differ by a structured preference shift*. We propose *Cross-Market Transfer Dynamic Pricing (CM-TDP)*, the first algorithm that *provably* handles such model-shift transfer and delivers minimax-optimal regret for *both* linear and non-parametric utility models.
For linear utilities of dimension $d$, where the *difference* between source- and target-task coefficients is $s_{0}$-sparse, CM-TDP attains regret $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}\bigl((dK^{-1}+s_{0})\log T\bigr)$. For nonlinear demand residing in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with effective dimension $\alpha$, complexity $\beta$ and task-similarity parameter $H$, the regret becomes $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}\bigl(K^{-2\alpha\beta/(2\alpha\beta+1)}T^{1/(2\alpha\beta+1)} + H^{2/(2\alpha+1)}T^{1/(2\alpha+1)}\bigr)$, matching information-theoretic lower bounds up to logarithmic factors. The RKHS bound is the first of its kind for transfer pricing and is of independent interest.
Extensive simulations show up to 38\% higher cumulative revenue and $6\times$ faster convergence relative to single-market pricing baselines. By bridging transfer learning, robust aggregation, and revenue optimization, CM-TDP moves toward pricing systems that *transfer faster, price smarter*. Elynn Y. Chen, Yujun Yan |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2025 | Tensor-Fused Multi-view Graph Contrastive Learning
Yujia Wu, Junyi Mo, Elynn Y. Chen |
PAKDD (7) | 3 |
| 2025 | Maximal Extractable Value in Batch AuctionsabstractIn the ever-evolving blockchain ecosystem, decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have seen significant growth, which, however, has also brought challenges of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV). DEXs offer a decentralized platform for cryptocurrency trading. Such trading mechanisms primarily include Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) and batch auctions. Mengqian Zhang, Yuhao Li 0002, Xinyuan Sun, Elynn Y. Chen, Xi Chen 0010 |
EC | 4 |
| 2024 | Tensor-view Topological Graph Neural NetworkabstractGraph classification is an important learning task for graph-structured data. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained growing attention in graph learning and shown significant improvements on many important graph problems. Despite their state-of-the-art performances, existing GNNs only use local information from a very limited neighborhood around each node, suffering from loss of multi-modal information and overheads of excessive computation. To address these issues, we propose a novel Tensor-view Topological Graph Neural Network (TTG-NN), a class of simple yet effective topological deep learning built upon persistent homology, graph convolution, and tensor operations. This new method incorporates tensor learning to simultaneously capture {\it Tensor-view Topological} (TT), as well as Tensor-view Graph (TG) structural information on both local and global levels. Computationally, to fully exploit graph topology and structure, we propose two flexible TT and TG representation learning modules which disentangles feature tensor aggregation and transformation, and learns to preserve multi-modal structure with less computation. Theoretically, we derive high probability bounds on both the out-of-sample and in-sample mean squared approximation errors for our proposed Tensor Transformation Layer (TTL). Real data experiments show that the proposed TTG-NN outperforms 20 state-of-the-art methods on various graph benchmarks. Tao Wen 0007, Elynn Y. Chen |
AISTATS | 2 |
| 2021 | On Projection Robust Optimal Transport: Sample Complexity and Model MisspecificationabstractOptimal transport (OT) distances are increasingly used as loss functions for statistical inference, notably in the learning of generative models or supervised learning. Yet, the behavior of minimum Wasserstein estimators is poorly understood, notably in high-dimensional regimes or under model misspecification. In this work we adopt the viewpoint of projection robust (PR) OT, which seeks to maximize the OT cost between two measures by choosing a $k$-dimensional subspace onto which they can be projected. Our first contribution is to establish several fundamental statistical properties of PR Wasserstein distances, complementing and improving previous literature that has been restricted to one-dimensional and well-specified cases. Next, we propose the integral PR Wasserstein (IPRW) distance as an alternative to the PRW distance, by averaging rather than optimizing on subspaces. Our complexity bounds can help explain why both PRW and IPRW distances outperform Wasserstein distances empirically in high-dimensional inference tasks. Finally, we consider parametric inference using the PRW distance. We provide an asymptotic guarantee of two types of minimum PRW estimators and formulate a central limit theorem for max-sliced Wasserstein estimator under model misspecification. To enable our analysis on PRW with projection dimension larger than one, we devise a novel combination of variational analysis and statistical theory. Tianyi Lin, Elynn Y. Chen, Marco Cuturi, Michael I. Jordan |
AISTATS | 3 |