Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization

A Abbas, A Ambainis, B Augustino, A Bärtschi… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum computers have demonstrable ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute-
force classical simulation. Interest in quantum algorithms has developed in many areas …

Online learning: A comprehensive survey

SCH Hoi, D Sahoo, J Lu, P Zhao - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
Online learning represents a family of machine learning methods, where a learner attempts
to tackle some predictive (or any type of decision-making) task by learning from a sequence …

Quantum optimization: Potential, challenges, and the path forward

A Abbas, A Ambainis, B Augustino, A Bärtschi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a
scale beyond brute force classical simulation. As such, a widespread interest in quantum …

The statistical complexity of interactive decision making

DJ Foster, SM Kakade, J Qian, A Rakhlin - arxiv preprint arxiv:2112.13487, 2021 - arxiv.org
A fundamental challenge in interactive learning and decision making, ranging from bandit
problems to reinforcement learning, is to provide sample-efficient, adaptive learning …

Jump-start reinforcement learning

I Uchendu, T **ao, Y Lu, B Zhu, M Yan… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a theoretical framework for continuously improving an
agent's behavior via trial and error. However, efficiently learning policies from scratch can be …

Provably efficient reinforcement learning with linear function approximation

C **, Z Yang, Z Wang… - Conference on learning …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) is commonly applied to practical problems
with an enormous number of states, where\emph {function approximation} must be deployed …

[KIRJA][B] Bandit algorithms

T Lattimore, C Szepesvári - 2020 - books.google.com
Decision-making in the face of uncertainty is a significant challenge in machine learning,
and the multi-armed bandit model is a commonly used framework to address it. This …

Transformers as decision makers: Provable in-context reinforcement learning via supervised pretraining

L Lin, Y Bai, S Mei - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.08566, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large transformer models pretrained on offline reinforcement learning datasets have
demonstrated remarkable in-context reinforcement learning (ICRL) capabilities, where they …

Nearly minimax optimal reinforcement learning for linear mixture markov decision processes

D Zhou, Q Gu, C Szepesvari - Conference on Learning …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study reinforcement learning (RL) with linear function approximation where the
underlying transition probability kernel of the Markov decision process (MDP) is a linear …

Introduction to multi-armed bandits

A Slivkins - Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Multi-armed bandits a simple but very powerful framework for algorithms that make
decisions over time under uncertainty. An enormous body of work has accumulated over the …