Stochastic continuum armed bandit problem of few linear parameters in high dimensions
Abstract
We consider a stochastic continuum armed bandit problem where the arms are indexed by the ball of radius in . The reward functions are considered to intrinsically depend on unknown linear parameters so that where is a full rank matrix. Assuming the mean reward function to be smooth we make use of results from low-rank matrix recovery literature and derive an efficient randomized algorithm which achieves a regret bound of with high probability. Here is at most polynomial in and and is the number of rounds or the sampling budget which is assumed to be known beforehand.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.0232,
title = {Stochastic continuum armed bandit problem of few linear parameters in high dimensions},
author = {Hemant Tyagi and Sebastian Stich and Bernd Gärtner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0232},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Changes from previous version: (a) Corrected typos throughout. (b) In earlier version, regret was defined as a conditional expectation (and hence bounded w.h.p); this is changed to an expectation now resulting in minor changes in statements of Lemma 1, Theorems 1,2 and Corollary 1. See Remark 1. (c) Added Remark 3, and corrected statement of Proposition 3