Lee Cohen

About

I'm a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC),  a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus.

Prior to that, I did my PhD in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, where I was very fortunate to be advised by Yishay Mansour.

I am broadly interested in learning theory, with a particular interest in problems that relate to societal challenges.

Email: leecohencs AT gmail DOT com

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News

• Check out our WiML-T event at COLT 2021!

• October 2020: Interested in ML theory & Identify yourself as a woman?  You can sign up for our mentorship program for women in machine learning theory either as a mentor, mentee, or both!

• February-March 2020: Visiting Efficient Algorithms research group, TU Berlin

Papers

• Eliciting User Preferences for Personalized Multi-Objective Decision Making through Comparative Feedback

Han Shao, Lee Cohen, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour, Aadirupa Saha, Matthew R Walter

In submission. 

[arxiv]

• Sequential Strategic Screening

Lee Cohen, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi, Kevin Stangl, Ali Vakilian, Juba Ziani

Accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023

[arxiv]

• Finding Safe Zones of Markov Decision Processes Policies

Lee Cohen,  Yishay Mansour and  Michal Moshkovitz

In submission. 

[arxiv]

• Modeling Attrition in Recommender Systems with Departing Bandits

Omer Ben-Porat*,  Lee Cohen*,  Liu Leqi*,  Zachary C. Lipton , and Yishay Mansour

Oral presentation, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022 (Oral)

[arXiv]

• Dueling Bandits with Team Comparisons

Lee Cohen*,  Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin* and Yishay Mansour

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021

[arxiv]

• Sample Complexity of Uniform Convergence for Multicalibration 

Eliran Shabat*,  Lee Cohen*,  and Yishay Mansour

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020 

[arxiv]

• Efficient Candidate Screening under Multiple Tests and Implications for Fairness  

Lee Cohen,  Zachary C. Lipton, and Yishay Mansour

Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) 2020

[arxiv][talk]

• Optimal Algorithm for Bayesian Incentive-Compatible Exploration

Lee Cohen and Yishay Mansour

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2019

[arxiv][talk]

* Equal contribution. 

Teaching

• Spring 19/20: Reinforcement Learning (Teaching assistant)

• Spring 18/19: Reinforcement Learning (Teaching assistant)

• Fall 18/19: Advanced topics in ML and AGT (Graduate level course, grader)