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Zhiquan Luo

5 accepted papers

2026

Knapsack RL: Unlocking Exploration of LLMs via Optimizing Budget Allocation

ICML 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve via reinforcement learning by generating trajectories to discover better solutions. This exploration process represents an investment of finite GPU compute to obtain learning signals. However, current methods typically allocate a small, uniform budget to ever…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Prior-dependent analysis of posterior sampling reinforcement learning with function approximation

AISTATS 2024poster

This work advances randomized exploration in reinforcement learning (RL) with function approximation modeled by linear mixture MDPs. We establish the first prior-dependent Bayesian regret bound for RL with function approximation; and refine the Bayesian regret analysis for posterior sampling reinfor…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Regret Bounds for Risk-sensitive Reinforcement Learning with Lipschitz Dynamic Risk Measures

AISTATS 2024poster

We study finite episodic Markov decision processes incorporating dynamic risk measures to capture risk sensitivity. To this end, we present two model-based algorithms applied to \emph{Lipschitz} dynamic risk measures, a wide range of risk measures that subsumes spectral risk measure, optimized certa…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2021

Communication Efficient Primal-Dual Algorithm for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Distributed Optimization

AISTATS 2021poster

Decentralized optimization problems frequently appear in the large scale machine learning problems. However, few works work on the difficult nonconvex nonsmooth case. In this paper, we propose a decentralized primal-dual algorithm to solve this type of problem in a decentralized manner and the propo…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2020

A Single-Loop Smoothed Gradient Descent-Ascent Algorithm for Nonconvex-Concave Min-Max Problems

NeurIPS 2020poster

Nonconvex-concave min-max problem arises in many machine learning applications including minimizing a pointwise maximum of a set of nonconvex functions and robust adversarial training of neural networks. A popular approach to solve this problem is the gradient descent-ascent (GDA) algorithm which un…

Cited by 128SourcePDFScholar