Stephen Becker
11 papers · 2012–2025 · 6 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Papers
Aligning to What? Limits to RLHF Based Alignment
NAACL 2025
A Unified Framework for Entropy Search and Expected Improvement in Bayesian Optimization
ICML 2025
Exploring Exploration in Bayesian Optimization
UAI 2025
High Probability Convergence Bounds for Non-convex Stochastic Gradient Descent with Sub-Weibull Noise
JMLR 2024
A Sampling-Based Method for Tensor Ring Decomposition
ICML 2021
Low-Rank Tucker Decomposition of Large Tensors Using TensorSketch
NeurIPS 2018
Open Problem: Property Elicitation and Elicitation Complexity
COLT 2016
QUIC & DIRTY: A Quadratic Approximation Approach for Dirty Statistical Models
NeurIPS 2014
Time--Data Tradeoffs by Aggressive Smoothing
NeurIPS 2014
Sparse projections onto the simplex
ICML 2013
A quasi-Newton proximal splitting method
NeurIPS 2012