Jian Qian

Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

Joined

May 2021

Names

Jian Qian (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

University of Hong Kong (hku.hk)

2026 – Present

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2019 – 2025

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Publications

Evolution of Information in Interactive Decision Making: A Case Study for Multi-Armed Bandits
Yuzhou Gu, Yanjun Han, Jian Qian
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Bridging Multiple Worlds: Multi-marginal Optimal Transport for Causal Partial-identification Problem
Zijun Gao, Shu Ge, Jian Qian
- AISTATS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Assouad, Fano, and Le Cam with Interaction: A Unifying Lower Bound Framework and Characterization for Bandit Learnability
Fan Chen, Dylan J Foster, Yanjun Han, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin, Yunbei Xu
- NeurIPS 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Offline Oracle-Efficient Learning for Contextual MDPs via Layerwise Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff
Jian Qian, Haichen Hu, David Simchi-Levi
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
How Does Variance Shape the Regret in Contextual Bandits?
Zeyu Jia, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin, Chen-Yu Wei
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Online Estimation via Offline Estimation: An Information-Theoretic Framework
Dylan J Foster, Yanjun Han, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Non-linear $F$-Design and Applications to Interactive Learning
Alekh Agarwal, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin, Tong Zhang
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Convex and Non-convex Optimization Under Generalized Smoothness
Haochuan Li, Jian Qian, Yi Tian, Alexander Rakhlin, Ali Jadbabaie
- NeurIPS 2023 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Model-Free Reinforcement Learning with the Decision-Estimation Coefficient
Dylan J Foster, Noah Golowich, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin, Ayush Sekhari
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Statistical Complexity of Interactive Decision Making
Dylan J Foster, Sham M. Kakade, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin
- 30 Mar 2023 (modified: 30 Mar 2023)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone

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