Search Results for author: Yikun Ban

Found 16 papers, 5 papers with code

Neural Active Learning Beyond Bandits

no code implementations18 Apr 2024 Yikun Ban, Ishika Agarwal, Ziwei Wu, Yada Zhu, Kommy Weldemariam, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He

We study both stream-based and pool-based active learning with neural network approximations.

Neural Contextual Bandits for Personalized Recommendation

no code implementations21 Dec 2023 Yikun Ban, Yunzhe Qi, Jingrui He

Different from existing related tutorials, (1) we focus on the exploration perspective of contextual bandits to alleviate the ``Matthew Effect'' in the recommender systems, i. e., the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, concerning the popularity of items; (2) in addition to the conventional linear contextual bandits, we will also dedicated to neural contextual bandits which have emerged as an important branch in recent years, to investigate how neural networks benefit contextual bandits for personalized recommendation both empirically and theoretically; (3) we will cover the latest topic, collaborative neural contextual bandits, to incorporate both user heterogeneity and user correlations customized for recommender system; (4) we will provide and discuss the new emerging challenges and open questions for neural contextual bandits with applications in the personalized recommendation, especially for large neural models.

Multi-Armed Bandits Recommendation Systems

Contextual Bandits with Online Neural Regression

no code implementations12 Dec 2023 Rohan Deb, Yikun Ban, Shiliang Zuo, Jingrui He, Arindam Banerjee

Based on such a perturbed prediction, we show a ${\mathcal{O}}(\log T)$ regret for online regression with both squared loss and KL loss, and subsequently convert these respectively to $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{KT})$ and $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{KL^*} + K)$ regret for NeuCB, where $L^*$ is the loss of the best policy.

Multi-Armed Bandits regression

Graph Neural Bandits

no code implementations21 Aug 2023 Yunzhe Qi, Yikun Ban, Jingrui He

Contextual bandits algorithms aim to choose the optimal arm with the highest reward out of a set of candidates based on the contextual information.

Multi-Armed Bandits

Neural Exploitation and Exploration of Contextual Bandits

1 code implementation5 May 2023 Yikun Ban, Yuchen Yan, Arindam Banerjee, Jingrui He

In recent literature, a series of neural bandit algorithms have been proposed to adapt to the non-linear reward function, combined with TS or UCB strategies for exploration.

Multi-Armed Bandits Thompson Sampling

Improved Algorithms for Neural Active Learning

1 code implementation2 Oct 2022 Yikun Ban, Yuheng Zhang, Hanghang Tong, Arindam Banerjee, Jingrui He

We improve the theoretical and empirical performance of neural-network(NN)-based active learning algorithms for the non-parametric streaming setting.

Active Learning

Neural Bandit with Arm Group Graph

no code implementations8 Jun 2022 Yunzhe Qi, Yikun Ban, Jingrui He

Contextual bandits aim to identify among a set of arms the optimal one with the highest reward based on their contextual information.

Multi-Armed Bandits

DISCO: Comprehensive and Explainable Disinformation Detection

1 code implementation9 Mar 2022 Dongqi Fu, Yikun Ban, Hanghang Tong, Ross Maciejewski, Jingrui He

Disinformation refers to false information deliberately spread to influence the general public, and the negative impact of disinformation on society can be observed in numerous issues, such as political agendas and manipulating financial markets.

Fake News Detection

Neural Collaborative Filtering Bandits via Meta Learning

no code implementations31 Jan 2022 Yikun Ban, Yunzhe Qi, Tianxin Wei, Jingrui He

Contextual multi-armed bandits provide powerful tools to solve the exploitation-exploration dilemma in decision making, with direct applications in the personalized recommendation.

Collaborative Filtering Decision Making +2

EE-Net: Exploitation-Exploration Neural Networks in Contextual Bandits

1 code implementation ICLR 2022 Yikun Ban, Yuchen Yan, Arindam Banerjee, Jingrui He

To overcome this challenge, a series of neural bandit algorithms have been proposed, where a neural network is used to learn the underlying reward function and TS or UCB are adapted for exploration.

Multi-Armed Bandits Thompson Sampling

Convolutional Neural Bandit for Visual-aware Recommendation

no code implementations2 Jul 2021 Yikun Ban, Jingrui He

Online recommendation/advertising is ubiquitous in web business.

Multi-facet Contextual Bandits: A Neural Network Perspective

1 code implementation6 Jun 2021 Yikun Ban, Jingrui He, Curtiss B. Cook

In this paper, we study a novel problem of multi-facet bandits involving a group of bandits, each characterizing the users' needs from one unique aspect.

Multi-Armed Bandits Recommendation Systems

Local Clustering in Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits

no code implementations26 Feb 2021 Yikun Ban, Jingrui He

We study identifying user clusters in contextual multi-armed bandits (MAB).

Clustering Multi-Armed Bandits

Generic Outlier Detection in Multi-Armed Bandit

no code implementations14 Jul 2020 Yikun Ban, Jingrui He

In this paper, we study the problem of outlier arm detection in multi-armed bandit settings, which finds plenty of applications in many high-impact domains such as finance, healthcare, and online advertising.

Outlier Detection

Catching Loosely Synchronized Behavior in Face of Camouflage

no code implementations21 Oct 2018 Yikun Ban, Jiao Sun, Xin Liu

Fraud has severely detrimental impacts on the business of social networks and other online applications.

Social and Information Networks Cryptography and Security

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