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Multi-thresholding Good Arm Identification with Bandit Feedback

Machine Learning 2025-06-30 v3

Abstract

We consider a good arm identification problem in a stochastic bandit setting with multi-objectives, where each arm i[K]i \in [K] is associated with a distribution DiD_i defined over RMR^M. For each round tt, the player pulls an arm iti_t and receives an MM-dimensional reward vector sampled according to DitD_{i_t}. The goal is to find, with high probability, an ϵ\epsilon-good arm whose expected reward vector is larger than ξϵ1\bm{\xi} - \epsilon \mathbf{1}, where ξ\bm{\xi} is a predefined threshold vector, and the vector comparison is component-wise. We propose the Multi-Thresholding UCB~(MultiTUCB) algorithm with a sample complexity bound. Our bound matches the existing one in the special case where M=1M=1 and ϵ=0\epsilon=0. The proposed algorithm demonstrates superior performance compared to baseline approaches across synthetic and real datasets.

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@article{arxiv.2503.10386,
  title  = {Multi-thresholding Good Arm Identification with Bandit Feedback},
  author = {Xuanke Jiang and Sherief Hashima and Kohei Hatano and Eiji Takimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.10386},
  year   = {2025}
}
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