Publications

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2025 PDF Diffusion Models Meet Contextual Bandits NeurIPS 2025
2025 PDF Off-Policy Learning in Large Action Spaces: Optimization Matters More Than Estimation RecSys 2024 – CONSEQUENCES Workshop
2025 PDF Offline Contextual Bandit with Counterfactual Sample Identification RecSys 2024 – CONSEQUENCES Workshop
2025 PDF Bayesian Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning for Large Action Spaces AISTATS 2025
2025 PDF Prior-Dependent Allocations for Bayesian Fixed-Budget Best-Arm Identification in Structured Bandits AISTATS 2025
2024 PDF Logarithmic Smoothing for Pessimistic Off-Policy Evaluation, Selection and Learning NeurIPS 2024
2024 PDF Unified PAC-Bayesian Study of Pessimism for Offline Policy Learning with Regularized Importance Sampling UAI 2024
2023 PDF Linear Diffusion Models Meet Contextual Bandits with Large Action Spaces FMDM @ NeurIPS 2023
2023 PDF Exponential Smoothing for Off-Policy Learning ICML 2023
2023 PDF Mixed-Effect Thompson Sampling AISTATS 2023
2023 PDF Probabilistic Rank and Reward: A Scalable Model for Slate Recommendation Preprint
2022 PDF Reward Optimizing Recommendation using Deep Learning and Fast MIPS Tutorials @ KDD & ECML 2022
2022 PDF Combining Reward and Rank Signals for Slate Recommendation BCIRWIS @ KDD 2022
2022 PDF Offline Evaluation of Reward-Optimizing Recommender Systems: The Case of Simulation SimuRec @ RecSys 2022
— PDF The bibliography section of Otmane Sakhi's thesis contains most of the related work

Presentations

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