Additive Control Variates Dominate Self-Normalisation in Off-Policy Evaluation.

@inproceedings{bhilegaonkar-2026-additive, author = {Amey Bhilegaonkar and Olivier Jeunen and Huan Liu and Shashank Gupta and Amey Bhilegaonkar and Olivier Jeunen and Huan Liu and Shashank Gupta}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Additive Control Variates Dominate Self-Normalisation in Off-Policy Evaluation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3828--3832}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809837}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809837} }