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Alexander Appel
dblp:283/3794
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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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 |
Reinforcement learning · 62% Learning theory · 38% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › reinforcement learning theory
decision-estimation coefficient |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Regret Bounds for Robust Online Decision Making · COLT 2025 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › online learning
regret bounds |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Regret Bounds for Robust Online Decision Making · COLT 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
bandit |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Regret Bounds for Robust Online Decision Making · COLT 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › online decision making
online reinforcement learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Regret Bounds for Robust Online Decision Making · COLT 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
minimax analysis · 0.9convex sets · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Regret Bounds for Robust Online Decision MakingabstractWe propose a framework which generalizes “decision making with structured observations" from Foster et al. (2023) by allowing \emph{robust} (i.e. multivalued) models. In this framework, each model associates each decision with a \emph{convex set} of probability distributions over outcomes. Nature can choose distributions out of this set in an arbitrary (adversarial) manner, that can be non-oblivious and depend on past history. The resulting framework offers much greater generality than classical bandits and reinforcement learning, since the realizability assumption becomes much weaker and more realistic. We then derive a theory of regret bounds for this framework, which extends the “decision-estimation coefficients" of Foster et al. (2023). Although our lower and upper bounds are not tight, they are sufficient to fully characterize power-law learnability. We demonstrate this theory in two special cases: robust linear bandits (previously studied in Kosoy (2024)) and tabular robust online reinforcement learning (previously studied in Tian et al. (2021)). In both cases, we derive regret bounds that improve state-of-the-art (except that we do not address computational efficiency). Alexander Appel, Vanessa Kosoy |
COLT | 1 |