no code implementations • 15 Oct 2023 • David Liu, Jackie Baek, Tina Eliassi-Rad
The first negatively impacts less popular items, due to the fact that less popular items rely on trailing latent components to recover their values.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2023 • Jackie Baek, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, Jonas Oddur Jonasson, Erez Yoeli
DecompPI is simple and easy to implement for organizations aiming to improve long-term behavior through targeted interventions, and this paper demonstrates its strong performance both theoretically and empirically.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Jackie Baek, Vivek F. Farias
When patients are associated with natural groups on the basis of, say, race or age, it is natural to ask whether the cost of exploration borne by any single group is 'fair'.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Jackie Baek, Vivek F. Farias, Andreea Georgescu, Retsef Levi, Tianyi Peng, Deeksha Sinha, Joshua Wilde, Andrew Zheng
In a similar vein, our results imply that in the case of an SIR model, one cannot hope to predict the eventual number of infections until one is approximately two-thirds of the way to the time at which the infection rate has peaked.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Jackie Baek, Vivek F. Farias
The key algorithmic task for Thompson sampling is drawing a sample from the posterior of the optimal action.