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New PROBE algorithm uses LLMs to improve costly decision-making

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Researchers have developed a new algorithm called PROBE (Proxy OLS for Best-arm Exploration) to improve decision-making when reward observations are costly. This algorithm leverages cheap, correlated proxy scores from machine learning and large language models alongside actual reward data. PROBE efficiently learns the correlation between the proxy and the reward, offering significant sample savings compared to traditional methods, especially when the correlation is strong. Numerical experiments demonstrate its effectiveness in scenarios like auto-loan pricing. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Tianyi Ma, Hanzhang Qin, Ruihao Zhu, Jierui Zuo ·

    Best-Arm Identification with Generative Proxy

    arXiv:2607.06879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Best-arm identification is a canonical model for data-driven decision-making, but in many applications each reward observation is costly. Motivated by the growing availability of cheap predictions from machine learning and large l…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Jierui Zuo ·

    Best-Arm Identification with Generative Proxy

    Best-arm identification is a canonical model for data-driven decision-making, but in many applications each reward observation is costly. Motivated by the growing availability of cheap predictions from machine learning and large language models, we study fixed-confidence best-arm…

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