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Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-18 Iavor Bojinov , David Simchi-Levi , Jinglong Zhao

For large classes of group testing problems, we derive lower bounds for the probability that all significant items are uniquely identified using specially constructed random designs. These bounds allow us to optimize parameters of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Jack Noonan , Anatoly Zhigljavsky

We study two-stage robust optimization problems with mixed discrete-continuous decisions in both stages. Despite their broad range of applications, these problems pose two fundamental challenges: (i) they constitute infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Anirudh Subramanyam , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris , Wolfram Wiesemann

In this paper, we derive optimal designs for the Rasch Poisson counts model and the Rasch Poisson-Gamma counts model incorporating several binary predictors for the difficulty parameter. To efficiently estimate the regression coefficients…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-07 Ulrike Graßhoff , Heinz Holling , Rainer Schwabe

To identify the robust settings of the control factors, it is very important to understand how they interact with the noise factors. In this article, we propose space-filling designs for computer experiments that are more capable of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-26 V. Roshan Joseph , Li Gu , Shan Ba , William R. Myers

We study the problem of constructing strong approximate unitary $k$-designs on $D$-dimensional grids (and more generally on Cartesian products of graphs), building on the work of Schuster et al. arXiv:2509.26310 which establishes strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Marten Folkertsma , Lorenzo Grevink , Jonas Helsen , Alicja Dutkiewicz

An optimal control problem associated to the Keller-Segel with logistic reaction system will be studied in $2D$ domains. The control acts in a bilinear form only in the chemical equation. The existence of optimal control and a necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-01 P. Braz e Silva , F. Guillén-González , C. F. Perusato , M. A. Rodríguez-Bellido

A/B testing, or controlled experiments, is the gold standard approach to causally compare the performance of algorithms on online platforms. However, conventional Bernoulli randomization in A/B testing faces many challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yongkang Guo , Yuan Yuan , Jinshan Zhang , Yuqing Kong , Zhihua Zhu , Zheng Cai

Space-filling designs are crucial for efficient computer experiments, enabling accurate surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification in many scientific and engineering applications, such as digital twin systems and cyber-physical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-06 Xinwei Deng , Lulu Kang , C. Devon Lin

Bilevel optimization problems are a class of challenging optimization problems, which contain two levels of optimization tasks. In these problems, the optimal solutions to the lower level problem become possible feasible candidates to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Ankur Sinha , Pekka Malo , Kalyanmoy Deb

A/B test, a simple type of controlled experiment, refers to the statistical procedure of experimenting to compare two treatments applied to test subjects. For example, many IT companies frequently conduct A/B tests on their users who are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Qiong Zhang , Lulu Kang

We contemplate an experimental situation in a $2^k$-factorial experiment with acute resource crunch so that we need to conduct just a saturated design [SD] - with the understanding that precision of the estimates cannot be estimated from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Francois Domagni , Samad Hedayat , Sinha Bikas

In this paper we construct (locally) $D$-optimal designs for a wide class of non-linear multiple regression models, when the design region is a $k$-dimensional ball. For this construction we make use of the concept of invariance and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-07 Martin Radloff , Rainer Schwabe

We consider a general $p$-norm objective for experimental design problems that captures some well-studied objectives (D/A/E-design) as special cases. We prove that a randomized local search approach provides a unified algorithm to solve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Lap Chi Lau , Robert Wang , Hong Zhou

In this paper, we studied the federated bilevel optimization problem, which has widespread applications in machine learning. In particular, we developed two momentum-based algorithms for optimizing this kind of problem and established the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Hongchang Gao

We consider optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian inverse problems, where the experimental design variables have a certain multiway structure. Given $d$ different experimental variables with $m_i$ choices per design variable $1 \le…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Hugo Díaz , Arvind K. Saibaba , Srinivas Eswar , Vishwas Rao , Zichao Wendy Di

This article studies the benefits of using spatially randomized experimental designs which partition the experimental area into distinct, non-overlapping units with treatments assigned randomly. Such designs offer improved policy evaluation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Ying Yang , Chengchun Shi , Fang Yao , Shouyang Wang , Hongtu Zhu

A general method for obtaining highly efficient factorial designs of relatively small sizes is developed for cDNA microarray experiments. The method allows the main effects and interactions of successive orders to be of possibly unequal…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-31 Runchu Zhang , Rahul Mukerjee

We examine the supervised learning problem in its continuous setting and give a general optimality condition through techniques of functional analysis and the calculus of variations. This enables us to solve the optimality condition for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Carlos David Brito Pacheco , Carlos Francisco Brito Loeza

Optimal experimental design (OED) aims to choose the observations in an experiment to be as informative as possible, according to certain statistical criteria. In the linear case (when the observations depend linearly on the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Ruhui Jin , Martin Guerra , Qin Li , Stephen Wright