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Merwan Barlier

5 accepted papers

2024

A Conservative Approach for Few-Shot Transfer in Off-Dynamics Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2024poster

Off-dynamics Reinforcement Learning (ODRL) seeks to transfer a policy from a source environment to a target environment characterized by distinct yet similar dynamics. In this context, traditional RL agents depend excessively on the dynamics of the source environment, resulting in the discovery of p…

2024

Measures of diversity and space-filling designs for categorical data

ICML 2024poster

Selecting a small subset of items that represent the diversity of a larger population lies at the heart of many data analysis and machine learning applications. However, when it comes to items described by discrete features, the lack of natural ordering and the combinatorial nature of the search spa…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Multi-Agent Best Arm Identification with Private Communications

ICML 2023poster

We address multi-agent best arm identification with privacy guarantees. In this setting, agents collaborate by communicating to find the optimal arm. To avoid leaking sensitive data through messages, we consider two notions of privacy withholding different kinds of information: differential privacy…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2020

A Simple and Efficient Smoothing Method for Faster Optimization and Local Exploration

NeurIPS 2020poster

This work proposes a novel smoothing method, called Bend, Mix and Release (BMR), that extends two well-known smooth approximations of the convex optimization literature: randomized smoothing and the Moreau envelope. The BMR smoothing method allows to trade-off between the computational simplicity of…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar