{ "schema_version": 1, "title": "Reproduction: Minimizing Upper Confidence Bounds - A Data-Driven Framework for Stochastic Programming", "emoji": "📉", "space_id": "snaykey/repro-ucb-minimization", "paper": { "openreview_id": "eXLcL70GXO" }, "tags": [ "icml2026-repro", "paper-eXLcL70GXO" ], "updated_at": "2026-07-31T00:00:00Z", "root": { "slug": "index", "title": "Reproduction: Minimizing Upper Confidence Bounds - A Data-Driven Framework for Stochastic Programming", "file": "pages/index.md", "children": [ { "slug": "executive-summary", "title": "Executive summary", "file": "pages/executive-summary/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-1-definition-apub", "title": "The Average Percentile Upper Bound (APUB) is defined as U^apub[μ|P̂_n] := (1/α)∫₀^α U^efron[μ|P̂_n] dτ, integrating Efron's percentile upper bound over confidence level τ from 0 to α (Definition 2.2, Section 2)", "file": "pages/claim-1-definition-apub/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-2-theorem-2-7-consistency", "title": "Theorem 2.7 proves APUB converges almost surely to the true population mean as sample size n approaches infinity, for every confidence level in (0,1] (Theorem 2.7)", "file": "pages/claim-2-theorem-2-7-consistency/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-3-theorem-3-3-asymptotic-correctness", "title": "Theorem 3.3 shows the APUB-embedded stochastic optimization model achieves first-order asymptotic correctness, with coverage probability exceeding the nominal confidence level up to an O(N^{-1/2}) term (Theorem 3.3)", "file": "pages/claim-3-theorem-3-3-asymptotic-correctness/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-4-theorem-3-5-optimization-consistency", "title": "Theorem 3.5 establishes that both the optimal values and optimal solution sets of the APUB-based optimization problem converge almost surely to their true counterparts as sample size increases (Theorem 3.5)", "file": "pages/claim-4-theorem-3-5-optimization-consistency/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-5-figure-1-gamma-coverage", "title": "On a Gamma(2,1) numerical example with nominal level α=0.05 and sample sizes ranging from 80 to 10,000, APUB's coverage probability approaches the 0.95 nominal level faster than Efron's percentile bound and standard large-sample approximations (Figure 1, Example 2.5)", "file": "pages/claim-5-figure-1-gamma-coverage/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-6-section-5-newsvendor-productmix", "title": "The framework is validated on two-stage product mix and multi-product newsvendor problems, showing APUB balances robustness and practicality compared to Sample Average Approximation (SAA) and Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) (Section 5)", "file": "pages/claim-6-section-5-newsvendor-productmix/page.md", "children": [] }, { "slug": "conclusion", "title": "Conclusion", "file": "pages/conclusion/page.md", "children": [] } ] } }