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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Pessimistic Minimax Learning for Public-Private Information Games under Unilateral Coverage

We study offline learning in two-player zero-sum contextual games with public and private information, motivated by strategic settings such as auctions and negotiations with private valuations. We introduce unilateral prescriptive concentrability and show that asymmetric information can change offline coverage through...

S. Liu, Claire Chen, Jiuqi Wang et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Learning to Sell: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Large Language Model Agents in Multi-Product Markets

This paper develops a machine learning approach for training such agents to act effectively as sellers in a multi-item bargaining environment, where a seller concurrently negotiates a catalog of substitutable assets across a pool of independent buyers.

S. Liu, Claire Chen, Jiuqi Wang et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Minimax-Optimal Online Contract Design with Unrestricted Bounded Contracts

We study repeated contract design when a principal observes outcomes but not the actions that generate them. The principal may use any bounded outcome-contingent payment vector, and the agent's best response can make expected profit discontinuous in those payments. For every fixed number $m\ge2$ of outcomes, the minima...

Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi, Han Zhong · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Coupled Calibration and Learning: Mitigating Teacher Bias in LLM Distillation without Target-Domain Reward Feedback

Coupled Calibration and Learning (CCL) is proposed, an LLM distillation algorithm that couples teacher calibration with student updates through token-level branching, using reward feedback only on source questions.

Hai-Chen Hu, Yu-Heng Zhang, David Simchi-Levi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Optimal Value Inference for Reinforcement Learning

Two new nuisances are derived as fixed points of a self-induced Bellman equation, in which they approximate the maximum Bellman operator by its softmax correspondence, and a debiased estimator is proposed through the Neyman orthogonality and established its asymptotic normality under diverging horizons.

Nan Lu, Ethan Lee, James M. Robins et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Sharp Structure-Agnostic Minimax Risk for Partial Linear Models

The result shows that standard double machine learning can overstate the intrinsic difficulty of target estimation and provides a target-specific principle for learner selection: approximation error and stochastic complexity must be jointly balanced across the two nuisance learners rather than optimized separately.

Hai-Chen Hu, David Simchi-Levi · 0 citations

LLM Evaluation as Tensor Completion: Low Rank Structure and Semiparametric Efficiency

A score-whitening method that equalizes local Fisher information and restores stable inference at the optimal sample-complexity scale is introduced that provides a principled framework for uncertainty quantification in LLM evaluation and more broadly for inference on low-rank structures from pairwise data.

Jiachun Li, David Simchi-Levi, W. Sun · 2 citations

Optimizing the Preconditioner: A Black-box Online-to-Nonconvex Conversion with Static Regret Minimization Oracles

The framework separates optimizer design into gradient prediction and online preconditioner selection, providing a principled perspective on how adaptive optimization methods may be understood through static regret and applied in nonconvex optimization.

Hai-Chen Hu, David Simchi-Levi · 0 citations
Jul 2026

When Reasoning Narrows the Move: Diversity Collapse in LLM Game Play

This work identifies narrow-support imitation as a source of policy collapse in LLM decision-making and suggests that preserving action support during SFT is important for maintaining exploratory behavior.

Junyi Sha, Renfei Tan, David Simchi-Levi · 0 citations

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