Optimal treatment allocation for efficient policy evaluation in sequential decision making

T Li, C Shi, J Wang, F Zhou - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A/B testing is critical for modern technological companies to evaluate the effectiveness of
newly developed products against standard baselines. This paper studies optimal designs …

Rate-optimal contextual online matching bandit

Y Li, C Wang, G Cheng, WW Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.03699, 2022 - arxiv.org
Two-sided online matching platforms have been employed in various markets. However,
agents' preferences in present market are usually implicit and unknown and must be learned …

Evaluating dynamic conditional quantile treatment effects with applications in ridesharing

T Li, C Shi, Z Lu, Y Li, H Zhu - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Many modern tech companies, such as Google, Uber, and Didi, use online experiments
(also known as A/B testing) to evaluate new policies against existing ones. While most …

Double matching under complementary preferences

Y Li, G Cheng, X Dai - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10230, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for addressing the problem of matching markets
with complementary preferences, where agents' preferences are unknown a priori and must …

Pessimistic Causal Reinforcement Learning with Mediators for Confounded Offline Data

D Wang, C Shi, S Luo, WW Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.11841, 2024 - arxiv.org
In real-world scenarios, datasets collected from randomized experiments are often
constrained by size, due to limitations in time and budget. As a result, leveraging large …

Spatially Randomized Designs Can Enhance Policy Evaluation

Y Yang, C Shi, F Yao, S Wang, H Zhu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.11400, 2024 - arxiv.org
This article studies the benefits of using spatially randomized experimental designs which
partition the experimental area into distinct, non-overlapping units with treatments assigned …

Policy evaluation for temporal and/or spatial dependent experiments

S Luo, Y Yang, C Shi, F Yao, J Ye… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The aim of this article is to establish a causal link between the policies implemented by
technology companies and the outcomes they yield within intricate temporal and/or spatial …

Spatial Interference Detection in Treatment Effect Model

W Zhang, F Yao, Y Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04836, 2024 - arxiv.org
Modeling the interference effect is an important issue in the field of causal inference. Existing
studies rely on explicit and often homogeneous assumptions regarding interference …

Two-sided Competing Matching Recommendation Markets With Quota and Complementary Preferences Constraints

Y Li, G Cheng, X Dai - Forty-first International Conference on Machine … - openreview.net
In this paper, we propose a new recommendation algorithm for addressing the problem of
two-sided online matching markets with complementary preferences and quota constraints …

Statistical Matching Model in Centralized Two-sided Markets With Contexts, Constraints, and Incentive Compatibility Consideration

Y Li - 2024 - escholarship.org
Two-sided online matching is a crucial aspect of optimizing social welfare sequentially
within economic frameworks, achieved through pairing participants via third-party platforms …