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Youcun Lu
dblp:420/3875
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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 |
Trustworthy machine learning · 75% Reinforcement learning · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
conformal prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Conformal Prediction Beyond the Horizon: Distribution-Free Inference for Policy Evaluation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation › conformal prediction
coverage guarantee |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Conformal Prediction Beyond the Horizon: Distribution-Free Inference for Policy Evaluation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
distribution-free uncertainty quantification |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Conformal Prediction Beyond the Horizon: Distribution-Free Inference for Policy Evaluation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy evaluation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Conformal Prediction Beyond the Horizon: Distribution-Free Inference for Policy Evaluation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
importance weighting · 0.9distributional RL · 0.9conformal calibration · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Conformal Prediction Beyond the Horizon: Distribution-Free Inference for Policy EvaluationabstractReliable uncertainty quantification is crucial for reinforcement learning (RL) in high-stakes settings. We propose a unified conformal prediction framework for infinite-horizon policy evaluation that constructs distribution-free prediction intervals for returns in both on-policy and off-policy settings. Our method integrates distributional RL with conformal calibration, addressing challenges such as unobserved returns, temporal dependencies, and distributional shifts. We propose a modular pseudo-return construction based on truncated rollouts and a time-aware calibration strategy using experience replay and weighted subsampling. These innovations mitigate model bias and restore approximate exchangeability, enabling uncertainty quantification even under policy shifts. Our theoretical analysis provides coverage guarantees that account for model misspecification and importance weight estimation. Empirical results, including experiments in synthetic and benchmark environments like Mountain Car, show that our method significantly improves coverage and reliability over standard distributional RL baselines. Feichen Gan, Youcun Lu |
NeurIPS | 2 |