{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4412448541","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2023.0590","title":"Dual-Directed Algorithm Design for Efficient Pure Exploration","display_name":"Dual-Directed Algorithm Design for Efficient Pure Exploration","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-07-15","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4412448541","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2023.0590"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1287/opre.2023.0590","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2023.0590","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S125775545","display_name":"Operations Research","issn_l":"0030-364X","issn":["0030-364X","1526-5463"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315699","host_organization_name":"Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315699"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Operations Research","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5110949506","display_name":"Chao Qin","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4600-6147"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I97018004","display_name":"Stanford University","ror":"https://ror.org/00f54p054","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I97018004"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Chao Qin","raw_affiliation_strings":["Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4600-6147","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I97018004"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5077211309","display_name":"Wei You","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-4194"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I889458895","display_name":"University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/02zhqgq86","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Wei You","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-4194","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079","https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":3,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5077211309"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079","https://openalex.org/I889458895"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.17135651,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"74","issue":"2","first_page":"1104","last_page":"1125"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11195","display_name":"Simulation Techniques and Applications","score":0.9977999925613403,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1803","display_name":"Management Science and Operations Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11195","display_name":"Simulation Techniques and Applications","score":0.9977999925613403,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1803","display_name":"Management Science and Operations Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11801","display_name":"Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods","score":0.9969000220298767,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2212","display_name":"Ocean Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10715","display_name":"Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems","score":0.995199978351593,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.6354336738586426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/dual","display_name":"Dual (grammatical number)","score":0.5415419340133667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/algorithm","display_name":"Algorithm","score":0.5288261771202087},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematical-optimization","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","score":0.4084709882736206},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematics","display_name":"Mathematics","score":0.23040443658828735}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6354336738586426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780980858","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110022","display_name":"Dual (grammatical number)","level":2,"score":0.5415419340133667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11413529","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8366","display_name":"Algorithm","level":1,"score":0.5288261771202087},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126255220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141495","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","level":1,"score":0.4084709882736206},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.23040443658828735},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1287/opre.2023.0590","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2023.0590","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S125775545","display_name":"Operations Research","issn_l":"0030-364X","issn":["0030-364X","1526-5463"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315699","host_organization_name":"Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315699"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Operations Research","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.hkust.edu.hk:1783.1-168532","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://repository.hkust.edu.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-168532","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401796","display_name":"Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","host_organization_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":24,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1489105500","https://openalex.org/W1536615069","https://openalex.org/W2012787574","https://openalex.org/W2028413486","https://openalex.org/W2037728958","https://openalex.org/W2052514130","https://openalex.org/W2072302356","https://openalex.org/W2144304907","https://openalex.org/W2166274157","https://openalex.org/W2478708596","https://openalex.org/W2531611812","https://openalex.org/W3016967565","https://openalex.org/W3122960105","https://openalex.org/W3138493539","https://openalex.org/W3140281130","https://openalex.org/W3160510905","https://openalex.org/W4206547457","https://openalex.org/W4232896127","https://openalex.org/W4288080706","https://openalex.org/W4295662476","https://openalex.org/W4364381843","https://openalex.org/W4386031878","https://openalex.org/W4386410682","https://openalex.org/W4396707221"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4391375266","https://openalex.org/W2899084033","https://openalex.org/W2748952813","https://openalex.org/W2051487156","https://openalex.org/W2073681303","https://openalex.org/W2390279801","https://openalex.org/W4391913857","https://openalex.org/W2358668433","https://openalex.org/W4396701345","https://openalex.org/W2376932109"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Although":[0],"experimental":[1],"design":[2,73],"often":[3],"focuses":[4],"on":[5],"selecting":[6],"the":[7,37,77],"single":[8],"best":[9],"alternative":[10],"from":[11],"a":[12,22,43,59,70,122],"finite":[13],"set,":[14],"many":[15],"pure-exploration":[16,67],"problems":[17],"pursue":[18],"richer":[19],"goals.":[20],"Given":[21],"specific":[23],"goal,":[24],"adaptive":[25],"experimentation":[26],"aims":[27],"to":[28,127],"achieve":[29],"it":[30],"by":[31,42],"strategically":[32],"allocating":[33],"sampling":[34],"effort,":[35],"with":[36],"underlying":[38],"sample":[39],"complexity":[40],"characterized":[41],"maximin":[44],"optimization":[45],"problem.":[46],"In":[47],"\"Dual-Directed":[48],"Algorithm":[49],"Design":[50],"for":[51,63,89],"Efficient":[52],"Pure":[53],"Exploration,\"":[54],"Qin":[55],"and":[56,99,120,124,130],"You":[57],"introduce":[58],"unified":[60,71],"dual-directed":[61,116],"framework":[62,117],"efficiently":[64],"solving":[65],"general":[66],"problems,":[68,91],"yielding":[69],"algorithm":[72],"principle":[74],"that":[75],"extends":[76],"top-two":[78],"approach":[79],"beyond":[80],"best-arm":[81,95],"identification.":[82,101],"Their":[83],"theoretical":[84,107],"analysis":[85],"proves":[86],"asymptotic":[87],"optimality":[88],"classical":[90],"such":[92],"as":[93],"Gaussian":[94],"identification,":[96],"thresholding":[97],"bandits,":[98],"epsilon-best-arm":[100],"Extensive":[102],"numerical":[103],"experiments":[104],"confirm":[105],"these":[106],"insights,":[108],"showcasing":[109],"significant":[110],"improvements":[111],"over":[112],"existing":[113],"methods.":[114],"This":[115],"offers":[118],"researchers":[119],"practitioners":[121],"powerful":[123],"versatile":[125],"tool":[126],"navigate":[128],"uncertainty":[129],"optimize":[131],"exploration":[132],"strategies":[133],"effectively.":[134]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-07-31T08:31:51.225901","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}