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Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits in Constant Space

Data Structures and Algorithms 2018-05-17 v2 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

We consider the stochastic bandit problem in the sublinear space setting, where one cannot record the win-loss record for all KK arms. We give an algorithm using O(1)O(1) words of space with regret i=1K1ΔilogΔiΔlogT \sum_{i=1}^{K}\frac{1}{\Delta_i}\log \frac{\Delta_i}{\Delta}\log T where Δi\Delta_i is the gap between the best arm and arm ii and Δ\Delta is the gap between the best and the second-best arms. If the rewards are bounded away from 00 and 11, this is within an O(log1/Δ)O(\log 1/\Delta) factor of the optimum regret possible without space constraints.

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@article{arxiv.1712.09007,
  title  = {Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits in Constant Space},
  author = {David Liau and Eric Price and Zhao Song and Ger Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09007},
  year   = {2018}
}

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