publications

2026

1. A General $\widetilde{\Omega}(\sqrt{T \gamma_T})$ Lower Bound for Kernel Bandits

   Chenkai Ma, and Jonathan Scarlett

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.11082, 2026

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2. Batched Kernelized Bandits: Refinements and Extensions

   Chenkai Ma, Keqin Chen, and Jonathan Scarlett

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.12627, 2026

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2023

1. POE: Process of Elimination for Multiple Choice Reasoning

   Chenkai Ma, and Xinya Du

   In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2023

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2. Prompt Engineering and Calibration for Zero-Shot Commonsense Reasoning

   Chenkai Ma

   In The First Tiny Papers Track at ICLR 2023, Tiny Papers @ ICLR 2023, Kigali, Rwanda, May 2023

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