% Key papers for Importance-weighted OPE estimators (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{neurips2018_breaking_56926, title = {{Breaking the Curse of Horizon: Infinite-Horizon Off-Policy Estimation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2018/poster/11523}, } @inproceedings{icml2016_doubly_35804, title = {{Doubly Robust Off-policy Value Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/jiang16.html}, } @inproceedings{icml2016_data_35785, title = {{Data-Efficient Off-Policy Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/thomasa16.html}, } @inproceedings{neurips2017_off_56522, title = {{Off-policy evaluation for slate recommendation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2017/poster/9146}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_cab_37202, title = {{CAB: Continuous Adaptive Blending for Policy Evaluation and Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/4208}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_doubly_29592, title = {{Doubly Robust Bias Reduction in Infinite Horizon Off-Policy Estimation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1glGANtDr}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_off_58701, title = {{Off-Policy Evaluation via Off-Policy Classification}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/13675}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_minimax_38456, title = {{Minimax Weight and Q-Function Learning for Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/5860}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_off_60450, title = {{Off-Policy Evaluation via the Regularized Lagrangian}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/18037}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_off_60453, title = {{Off-policy Policy Evaluation For Sequential Decisions Under Unobserved Confounding}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17468}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_coindice_59545, title = {{CoinDICE: Off-Policy Confidence Interval Estimation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17909}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_more_37552, title = {{More Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation through Regularized Targeted Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/4251}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_confounding_59569, title = {{Confounding-Robust Policy Evaluation in Infinite-Horizon Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17255}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_semi_58974, title = {{Semi-Parametric Efficient Policy Learning with Continuous Actions}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/14412}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_minimax_60325, title = {{Minimax Value Interval for Off-Policy Evaluation and Policy Optimization}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17251}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_interpretable_38336, title = {{Interpretable Off-Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning by Highlighting Influential Transitions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/6723}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_black_29600, title = {{Black-box Off-policy Estimation for Infinite-Horizon Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1ltg1rFDS}, } @inproceedings{icml2018_more_36858, title = {{More Robust Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2018/poster/2068}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_combining_37229, title = {{Combining parametric and nonparametric models for off-policy evaluation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/4093}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_bootstrapping_39109, title = {{Bootstrapping Fitted Q-Evaluation for Off-Policy Inference}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/8507}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_distributional_5724, title = {{Distributional Off-Policy Evaluation for Slate Recommendations}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/28667}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_cross_8567, title = {{Cross-Validated Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33765}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_two_71722, title = {{Two-way Deconfounder for Off-policy Evaluation in Causal Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95564}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_abstract_73013, title = {{Abstract Reward Processes: Leveraging State Abstraction for Consistent Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94409}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_logarithmic_74632, title = {{Logarithmic Smoothing for Pessimistic Off-Policy Evaluation, Selection and Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/92960}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_kernel_35305, title = {{Kernel Metric Learning for In-Sample Off-Policy Evaluation of Deterministic RL Policies}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17768}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_skill_34668, title = {{Skill or Luck? Return Decomposition via Advantage Functions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18406}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_demystifying_46474, title = {{Demystifying the Paradox of Importance Sampling with an Estimated History-Dependent Behavior Policy in Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46092}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_behaviour_106926, title = {{Behaviour Policy Optimization: Provably Lower Variance Return Estimates for Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/39278}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_reward_54517, title = {{Reward Shaping Control Variates for Off-Policy Evaluation Under Sparse Rewards}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=potpaozpjv}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_simultaneous_75727, title = {{Simultaneous Statistical Inference for Off-Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=BM1GqmkEHS}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_potec_81789, title = {{POTEC: Off-Policy Contextual Bandits for Large Action Spaces via Policy Decomposition}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29991}, } @inproceedings{neurips2026_error_89739, title = {{Error-Guided Bellman Calibration for Semi-Offline Value Estimation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/poster/149993}, } @inproceedings{neurips2026_variational_90733, title = {{Variational Approach to Optimal IPS Estimator for Multi-logger Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/poster/155166}, } @inproceedings{neurips2026_budgeted_92491, title = {{Budgeted Multi-Source Counterfactual Annotation for Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/poster/155643}, }