Publications

Reinforcement Learning

• W. Xu, S. Dong, X. Lu, G. Lam, Z. Wen, and B. Van Roy, ‘‘RLHF and IIA: Perverse Incentives.’’

• B. Zhu, H. Sharma, F. V. Frujeri, S. Dong, C. Zhu, M. I. Jordan, and J. Jiao, ‘‘Fine-Tuning Language Models with Advantage-Induced Policy Alignment.’’

• W. Xu, S. Dong, D. Arumugam, and B. Van Roy, ‘‘Shattering the Agent-Environment Interface for Fine-Tuning Inclusive Language Models.’’

• D. Arumugam, S. Dong, and B. Van Roy, ‘‘Inclusive Artificial Intelligence.’’

• W. Xu, S. Dong, and B. Van Roy, ‘‘Posterior Sampling for Continuing Environments.’’

• S. Dong, B. Van Roy, and Z. Zhou, ‘‘Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent States.’’ Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2022.
  (A paper based on this work won the 2021 INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition.)
  

• S. Kumar, S. Dong, and B. Van Roy, ‘‘Regulating the Deadly Triad through Gradient Regularization.’’ The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM), 2022.
  

• S. Dong, B. Van Roy, and Z. Zhou, ‘‘Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Aggregated States.’’
  

• B. Van Roy and S. Dong, ‘‘Comments on the Du-Kakade-Wang-Yang Lower Bounds.’’

• S. Dong, T. Ma, and B. Van Roy, ‘‘On the Performance of Thompson Sampling on Logistic Bandits,’’ Conference on Learning Theory, 2019.
  

• S. Dong and B. Van Roy, ‘‘An Information-Theoretic Analysis for Thompson Sampling with Many Actions,’’ Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, 2018.

Previous Publications on Nanoelectronics and Photonics

• S. Dong, J. Yang, and J. A. Fan, “Analysis of material selection in dielectric metagratings,” Imaging Systems and Applications, Optical Society of America, 2017.
  

• S. Dong, K. Zhang, Z. Yu, and J. A. Fan, “Electrochemically Programmable Plasmonic Antennas,” ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (7): 6716-6724.
  

• Z. Deng, J. Jiang, S. Dong, L. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Wang, and Z. Yu, ”Hydrodynamic Electron Transport and Terahertz Plasma-Wave in Topological Insulator FETs (TI-FETs),” Oral Report, SISPAD 2016, 69 - 72.
  

• W. Li, S. Dong, H. Wang, Z. Deng, J. Zhang, Y. Wang, and Z. Yu, “Computational Study of Graphene FETs (GFETs) as Room-Temperature Terahertz Emitter,” Oral Report, SISPAD 2015..