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Borna Sayedana
dblp:250/3079
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0003-1347-7089ORCID · verified
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 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 |
Learning theory · 70% Reinforcement learning · 30% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Learning theory
concentration inequalities |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Concentration of Cumulative Reward in Markov Decision Processes · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
markov decision process |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Concentration of Cumulative Reward in Markov Decision Processes · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › concentration inequalities
martingale inequalities |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Concentration of Cumulative Reward in Markov Decision Processes · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › online learning
regret bounds |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Concentration of Cumulative Reward in Markov Decision Processes · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
martingale decomposition · 0.9law of large numbers · 0.9central limit theorem · 0.9azuma-hoeffding inequality · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Concentration of Cumulative Reward in Markov Decision ProcessesabstractIn this paper, we investigate the concentration properties of cumulative reward in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), focusing on both asymptotic and non-asymptotic settings. We introduce a unified approach to characterize reward concentration in MDPs, covering both infinite-horizon settings (i.e., average and discounted reward frameworks) and finite-horizon setting. Our asymptotic results include the law of large numbers, the central limit theorem, and the law of iterated logarithms, while our non-asymptotic bounds include Azuma-Hoeffding-type inequalities and a non-asymptotic version of the law of iterated logarithms. Additionally, we explore two key implications of our results. First, we analyze the sample path behavior of the difference in rewards between any two stationary policies. Second, we show that two alternative definitions of regret for learning policies proposed in the literature are rate-equivalent. Our proof techniques rely on a martingale decomposition of cumulative reward, properties of the solution to the policy evaluation fixed-point equation, and both asymptotic and non-asymptotic concentration results for martingale difference sequences. Borna Sayedana, Peter E. Caines, Aditya Mahajan |
J. Mach. Learn. Res. | 1 |
| 2020 | Cross-layer communication over fading channels with adaptive decision feedback
Borna Sayedana, Aditya Mahajan, Edmund M. Yeh |
WiOpt | 1 |