Publications

*: indicating equal contribution or alphabetic ordering.

Preprints

1. Learning Optimal Tax Design in Nonatomic Congestion Games
   Qiwen Cui, Maryam Fazel, Simon S. Du
   

2. Refined Sample Complexity for Markov Games with Independent Linear Function Approximation
   Yan Dai, Qiwen Cui, Simon S. Du
   

2024

1. A Black-box Approach for Non-stationary Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
   Haozhe Jiang, Qiwen Cui, Zhihan Xiong, Maryam Fazel, Simon S. Du
   International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024
   

2. Free from Bellman Completeness: Trajectory Stitching via Model-based Return-conditioned Supervised Learning
   Zhaoyi Zhou, Chuning Zhu, Runlong Zhou, Qiwen Cui, Abhishek Gupta, Simon S. Du
   International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024
   

2023

1. Breaking the Curse of Multiagents in a Large State Space: RL in Markov Games with Independent Linear Function Approximation
   Qiwen Cui, Kaiqing Zhang, Simon S. Du
   The 36th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) 2023
   

2. Offline Congestion Games: How Feedback Type Affects Data Coverage Requirement
   Haozhe Jiang*, Qiwen Cui*, Zhihan Xiong, Maryam Fazel, Simon S. Du
   International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023
   

2022

1. Provably Efficient Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Strategy-wise Bonus
   Qiwen Cui, Simon S. Du
   Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022
   

2. When is Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Game Solvable?
   Qiwen Cui, Simon S. Du
   Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022
   

3. Learning in Congestion Games with Bandit Feedback
   Qiwen Cui*, Zhihan Xiong*, Maryam Fazel, Simon S. Du
   Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022
   

4. Near-Optimal Randomized Exploration for Tabular MDP
   Zhihan Xiong*, Ruoqi Shen*, Qiwen Cui*, Maryam Fazel, Simon S. Du
   Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022
   

5. On Gap-dependent Bounds for Offline Reinforcement Learning
   Xinqi Wang, Qiwen Cui, Simon S. Du
   Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022
   

6. NG+ : A Multi-Step Matrix-Product Natural Gradient Method for Deep Learning
   Minghan Yang, Dong Xu, Qiwen Cui, Zaiwen Wen, Pengxiang Xu
   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2022
   

2021

1. Randomized Exploration for Reinforcement Learning with General Value Function Approximation
   Haque Ishfaq*, Qiwen Cui*, Viet Nguyen, Alex Ayoub, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang, Doina Precup, Lin F Yang
   International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2021
   

2. Minimax Sample Complexity for Turn-based Stochastic Game
   Qiwen Cui, Lin F. Yang
   Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2021
   

3. Clinical Decision Support Model for Tooth Extraction Therapy Derived from Electronic Dental Records
   Qiwen Cui, Qingxiao Chen, Pufan Liu, Debin Liu, Zaiwen Wen The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry 2021

2020

1. Is Plug-in Solver Sample-Efficient for Feature-based Reinforcement Learning?
   Qiwen Cui, Lin F. Yang
   Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020