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New method enhances Plackett-Luce objective with rank-conditioned sample reuse

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Researchers have developed a novel method for rank-conditioned sample reuse in the Plackett-Luce Best-of-K objective. This new approach addresses biases found in existing estimators by providing an unbiased score-function surrogate gradient. The method utilizes a dynamic program to collapse subset sums and offers a fixed-Q quadrature evaluation with a complexity of O(n log n + nKQ). AI

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New method enhances Plackett-Luce objective with rank-conditioned sample reuse

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Melveena Jolly, Midhun Xavier ·

    Rank-Conditioned Sample Reuse for the Plackett--Luce Best-of-$K$ Objective

    arXiv:2607.11146v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the coupled objective J_K^WOR = E_{S ~ PL-WOR_K}[max_{i in S} R_i]: the expected maximum reward of a size-K Plackett-Luce draw without replacement, the law of Gumbel-Top-K / Stochastic Beam Search decoding. This estimand …

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Midhun Xavier ·

    Rank-Conditioned Sample Reuse for the Plackett--Luce Best-of-$K$ Objective

    We study the coupled objective J_K^WOR = E_{S ~ PL-WOR_K}[max_{i in S} R_i]: the expected maximum reward of a size-K Plackett-Luce draw without replacement, the law of Gumbel-Top-K / Stochastic Beam Search decoding. This estimand differs from the conventional i.i.d. objective J_K…

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