Practical Contextual Bandits with Feedback Graphs
Machine Learning
2023-10-30 v3
Abstract
While contextual bandit has a mature theory, effectively leveraging different feedback patterns to enhance the pace of learning remains unclear. Bandits with feedback graphs, which interpolates between the full information and bandit regimes, provides a promising framework to mitigate the statistical complexity of learning. In this paper, we propose and analyze an approach to contextual bandits with feedback graphs based upon reduction to regression. The resulting algorithms are computationally practical and achieve established minimax rates, thereby reducing the statistical complexity in real-world applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.08631,
title = {Practical Contextual Bandits with Feedback Graphs},
author = {Mengxiao Zhang and Yuheng Zhang and Olga Vrousgou and Haipeng Luo and Paul Mineiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08631},
year = {2023}
}