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Kwang-Sung Jun

  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Assistant Professor, Statistics-GIDP
  • Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP
Contact
  • (520) 621-4632
  • Gould-Simpson, Rm. 746
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • kjun@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Computer Science
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
    • Some Machine Learning Methods from Sequential Input
  • M.S. Computer Science
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
  • B.S. Computer Science
    • Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Awards

  • Top reviewer for AISTATS'22
    • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Spring 2022
  • NeurIPS 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award
    • Neural Information Processing Systems, Fall 2021

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Interests

Teaching

Machine learning, theory of machine learning, online learning (optimization), multi-armed bandits.

Research

interactive machine learning, multi-armed bandits, online learning, active learning

Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Dissertation
    CSC 920 (Fall 2025)
  • Independent Study
    CSC 699 (Fall 2025)
  • Principles of Machine Learning
    CSC 480 (Fall 2025)
  • Principles of Machine Learning
    CSC 580 (Fall 2025)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Dissertation
    CSC 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Independent Study
    CSC 599 (Spring 2025)
  • Independent Study
    CSC 699 (Spring 2025)
  • Machine Learning Theory
    CSC 588 (Spring 2025)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    CSC 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Independent Study
    CSC 599 (Fall 2024)
  • Principles of Machine Learning
    CSC 480 (Fall 2024)
  • Principles of Machine Learning
    CSC 580 (Fall 2024)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Dissertation
    CSC 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Machine Learning Theory
    CSC 588 (Spring 2024)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Spring 2024)
  • AdvTpc Artificial Intelligence
    CSC 696H (Fall 2023)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Machine Learning Theory
    CSC 588 (Spring 2023)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Spring 2023)
  • Principles of Data Science
    CSC 380 (Fall 2022)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Principles of Data Science
    CSC 380 (Spring 2022)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Spring 2022)
  • Principles of Machine Learning
    CSC 580 (Fall 2021)
  • Research
    CSC 900 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Research
    CSC 900 (Spring 2021)
  • Independent Study
    CSC 599 (Fall 2020)
  • Principles of Machine Learning
    CSC 580 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Adv Tpcs Computat Intell
    CSC 665 (Spring 2020)
  • Independent Study
    CSC 599 (Fall 2019)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • Orabona, F., & Jun, K. (2021). Tight Concentrations and Confidence Sequences from the Regret of Universal Portfolio. arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14099.

Proceedings Publications

  • Bian, J., & Jun, K. (2022). Maillard Sampling: Boltzmann Exploration Done Optimally. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).
    More info
    CORE A
  • Faury, L., Abeille, M., Jun, K., & Calauz`{e}nes, C. (2022). Jointly Efficient and Optimal Algorithms for Logistic Bandits. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).
    More info
    core A
  • Gales, S. B., Sethuraman, S., & Jun, K. (2022). Norm-Agnostic Linear Bandits. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).
    More info
    core A
  • Kim, Y., Yang, I., & Jun, K. (2022). Improved regret analysis for variance-adaptive linear bandits and horizon-free linear mixture mdps. In submitted to Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
  • Mason, B., Jun, K., & Jain, L. (2022). An Experimental Design Approach for Regret Minimization in Logistic Bandits. In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
    More info
    core A*
  • Jang, K., Jun, K., Yun, S. Y., & Kang, W. (2021). Improved Regret Bounds of Bilinear Bandits using Action Space Dimension Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
    More info
    core A*
  • Jun, K., Jain, L., Mason, B., & Nassif, H. (2021). Improved Confidence Bounds for the Linear Logistic Model and Applications to Linear Bandits. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
    More info
    core A*
  • Park, H., Shin, S., Jun, K., & Ok, J. (2021). Transfer Learning in Bandits with Latent Continuity. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
    More info
    CORE B
  • Zhang, C., Jun, K., Jun, K., & Zhang, C. (2020, December). Crush Optimism with Pessimism: Structured Bandits Beyond Asymptotic Optimality.. In Neural Information Processing Systems.
    More info
    NeurIPS is a top-tier conference (A* in CORE).
  • Jun, K., & Orabona, F. (2019, Dec). Parameter-Free Locally Differentially Private Stochastic Subgradient Descent. In NeurIPS Workshop on Privacy in Machine Learning (PriML).
  • Jun, K., & Orabona, F. (2019, Jun). Parameter-Free Online Convex Optimization with Sub-Exponential Noise. In Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 99.
    More info
    COLT is a top-tier conference (A* in CORE).
  • Jun, K., Cutkosky, A., & Orabona, F. (2019, Dec). Kernel Truncated Randomized Ridge Regression: Optimal Rates and Low Noise Acceleration. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
    More info
    NeurIPS is a top-tier conference (A* in CORE).
  • Jun, K., Willett, R., Wright, S., & Nowak, R. (2019, Jun). Bilinear Bandits with Low-rank Structure. In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, 97.
    More info
    ICML is a top-tier conference (A* in CORE).

Others

  • Jun, K., & Zhang, C. (2020, July). Crush Optimism with Pessimism: Structured Bandits Beyond Asymptotic Optimality.. ICML Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning.
    More info
    This was a preliminary work that was presented and published in ICML Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning.

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