Stochastic Probing with Increasing Precision

Authors: Martin Hoefer, Kevin Schewior, Daniel Schmand

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We study both identical and non-identical distributions and develop polynomial-time algorithms with constant approximation factors in both scenarios. Our main results are two probing algorithms, one for identically distributed items and one for non-identical distributions. We show that both run in polynomial time and obtain a constant-factor approximation of the optimal probing strategy that maximizes the expected value of the selected item.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 2University of Cologne, Germany 3University of Bremen, Germany
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: ALGgen for General Distributions
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement or link indicating the release of open-source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and approximation factors; it does not use or reference any datasets for training.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve experimental validation on datasets with specific splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not specify any hardware used for experiments, as it is a theoretical work.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not mention any specific software dependencies or their version numbers, as it is a theoretical work.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not describe an experimental setup with hyperparameters or system-level training settings.