Microsoft at AISTATS 2022

Double Control Variates for Gradient Estimation in Discrete Latent Variable Models

Michalis K. Titsias, Jiaxin Shi

Towards an Understanding of Default Policies in Multitask Policy Optimization

Ted Moskovitz, Michael Arbel, Jack Parker-Holder, Aldo Pacchiano

Beyond the Policy Gradient Theorem for Efficient Policy Updates in Actor-Critic Algorithms

Romain Laroche, Remi Tachet des Combes

On the Convergence of Stochastic Extragradient for Bilinear Games using Restarted Iteration Averaging

Chris Junchi Li, Yaodong Yu, Nicolas Loizou, Gauthier Gidel, Yi Ma, Nicolas Le Roux, Michael I. Jordan

Learning Inconsistent Preferences with Gaussian Processes

Siu Lun Chau, Javier González, Dino Sejdinovic

Online Competitive Influence Maximization

Jinhang Zuo, Xutong Liu, Carlee Joe-Wong, John C.S. Lui, Wei Chen

Dropout as a Regularizer of Interaction Effects

Benjamin Lengerich, Eric P. Xing, Rich Caruana

Predicting the impact of treatments over time with uncertainty aware neural differential equations

Edward De Brouwer, Javier González, Stephanie Hyland

Investigating the Role of Negatives in Contrastive Representation Learning

Jordan Ash, Surbhi Goel, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dipendra Misra

A general class of surrogate functions for stable and efficient reinforcement learning

Sharan Vaswani, Olivier Bachem, Simone Totaro, Robert Müller, Shivam Garg, Matthieu Geist, Marlos C. Machado, Pablo Samuel Castro, Nicolas Le Roux

Exploiting Correlation to Achieve Faster Learning Rates in Low-Rank Preference Bandits

Suprovat Ghoshal, Aadirupa Saha

Learning and Generalization in Overparameterized Normalizing Flows

Kulin Shah, Amit Deshpande, Navin Goyal

Meta Learning MDPs with linear transition models

Robert Müller, Aldo Pacchiano

Towards an Understanding of Default Policies in Multitask Policy Optimization

Ted Moskovitz, Michael Arbel, Jack Parker-Holder, Aldo Pacchiano

A general class of surrogate functions for stable and efficient reinforcement learning

Sharan Vaswani, Olivier Bachem, Simone Totaro, Robert Müller, Shivam Garg, Matthieu Geist, Marlos C. Machado, Pablo Samuel Castro, Nicolas Le Roux