Research

• Efficient Simple Regret Algorithms for Stochastic Contextual Bandits
  Shuai Liu, Alireza Bakhtiari, Alex Ayoub, Botao Hao, Tor Lattimore, Csaba Szepesvári.
  Under review at NeurIPS, 2025.
  

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• Almost Free: Self-concordance in Natural Exponential Families and an Application to Bandits.
  Shuai Liu, Alex Ayoub, Flore Sentenac, Xiaoqi Tan, Csaba Szepesvári.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
  

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• Exploration via linearly perturbed loss minimisation.
  David Janz, Shuai Liu, Alex Ayoub, Csaba Szepesvári.
  Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024.
  Oral Presentation
  

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