publications

publications in reversed chronological order. Also see Google Scholar. * marks equal contribution; αβ marks alphabetical author order.

ongoing works

  1. Trustworthy On-policy Distillations under Operational Constraints
    with Yifei Pang, Yanjun Han, and Zhun Deng
    Working draft
  2. Learning to Activate and Scale: Price-based Semi-bandit Algorithms for Resource Allocation
    with Jiawen Yang, Caihua Chen, Xingyu Lu, Wei Lu, and Zhengyuan Zhou
    Working draft
  3. Constrained Gradient Equilibrium: Approachability under Locally Constrained Adversaries
    with Kaicheng Zhang, Lujing Zhang, Yifei Pang, Zhun Deng, and Yanjun Han
    submitted to AISTATS 2027
  4. Functional Critics Are Essential for Actor-Critic: From Off-Policy Stability to Efficient Exploration
    with Qinxuan Bai, Yuxuan Han, Wei Xu, and Zhengyuan Zhou
    submitted to ICLR 2027
  5. Online Inventory Control with Context-Aware Demand Distributions
    with Jingkai Huang, Huawei Zhou, and Zhengyuan Zhou
    reject&resubmit at M&SOM

2026

  1. Optimal Arm Elimination Algorithms for Combinatorial Bandits
    Yuxiao Wen ,  Yanjun Han ,  and  Zhengyuan Zhou
    Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2026
  2. Semi-Parametric Contextual Pricing with General Smoothness
    Yuxuan Han* ,  Xiaocong Xu* ,  Yuxiao Wen ,  Yanjun Han ,  Ilan Lobel , and 1 more author
    In The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2026
  3. Joint Value Estimation and Bidding in Repeated First-Price Auctions
    Yuxiao Wen ,  Yanjun Han ,  and  Zhengyuan Zhou
    2026
    POMS-HK 2026 Best Student Paper Finalist
    POMS-China 2026 Best Student Paper Third Prize
  5. Learning to Bid with Unknown Private Values in Budget-Constrained First-Price Auctions
    αβ  Zihao Hu ,  Yuxiao Wen ,  Yuan Yao ,  Jiheng Zhang ,  and  Zhengyuan Zhou
    2026
  6. The (Marginal) Value of a Search Ad: An Online Causal Framework for Repeated Second-price Auctions
    Yuxiao Wen ,  Zihao Hu ,  Yanjun Han ,  Yuan Yao ,  and  Zhengyuan Zhou
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

2025

  1. Adversarial Combinatorial Semi-bandits with Graph Feedback
    Yuxiao Wen
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  2. Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits
    Diego Feijer ,  Himan Abdollahpouri ,  Sanket Gupta ,  Alexander Clare ,  Yuxiao Wen , and 5 more authors
    2025 ACM RecSys - CONSEQUENCES workshop, 2025
  3. How DNNs break the Curse of Dimensionality: Compositionality and Symmetry Learning
    Arthur Jacot ,  Seok Hoan Choi ,  and  Yuxiao Wen
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

2024

  1. Stochastic contextual bandits with graph feedback: from independence number to MAS number
    Yuxiao Wen ,  Yanjun Han ,  and  Zhengyuan Zhou
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
  2. Which Frequencies do CNNs Need? Emergent Bottleneck Structure in Feature Learning
    Yuxiao Wen ,  and  Arthur Jacot
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  3. Coupling parameter and particle dynamics for adaptive sampling in Neural Galerkin schemes
    Yuxiao Wen ,  Eric Vanden-Eijnden ,  and  Benjamin Peherstorfer
    Physica D, 2024

2023

  1. Active operator inference for learning low-dimensional dynamical-system models from noisy data
    Wayne Isaac Tan Uy ,  Yuepeng Wang ,  Yuxiao Wen ,  and  Benjamin Peherstorfer
    SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2023