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Razvan-Andrei Lascu
dblp:368/6821
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1ranked-venue papers
1as 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 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.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 87% Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 13% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% |
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
policy optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Non-convex entropic mean-field optimization via Best Response flow · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › stochastic optimization
mean-field optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Non-convex entropic mean-field optimization via Best Response flow · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization
nonconvex optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Non-convex entropic mean-field optimization via Best Response flow · NeurIPS 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
stochastic games |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Non-convex entropic mean-field optimization via Best Response flow · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
wasserstein contraction analysis · 1.7fictitious play flow · 1.7best response flow · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Non-convex entropic mean-field optimization via Best Response flowabstractWe study the problem of minimizing non-convex functionals on the space of probability measures, regularized by the relative entropy (KL divergence) with respect to a fixed reference measure, as well as the corresponding problem of solving entropy-regularized non-convex-non-concave min-max problems. We utilize the Best Response flow (also known in the literature as the fictitious play flow) and study how its convergence is influenced by the relation between the degree of non-convexity of the functional under consideration, the regularization parameter and the tail behaviour of the reference measure. In particular, we demonstrate how to choose the regularizer, given the non-convex functional, so that the Best Response operator becomes a contraction with respect to the $L^1$-Wasserstein distance, which ensures the existence of its unique fixed point that is then shown to be the unique global minimizer for our optimization problem. This extends recent results where the Best Response flow was applied to solve convex optimization problems regularized by the relative entropy with respect to arbitrary reference measures, and with arbitrary values of the regularization parameter. Our results explain precisely how the assumption of convexity can be relaxed, at the expense of making a specific choice of the regularizer. Additionally, we demonstrate how these results can be applied in reinforcement learning in the context of policy optimization for Markov Decision Processes and Markov games with softmax parametrized policies in the mean-field regime. Razvan-Andrei Lascu, Mateusz B. Majka |
NeurIPS | 1 |