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Optimal regret bounds for Multi-Armed Bandit problems are now well documented. They can be classified into two categories based on the growth rate with respect to the time horizon $T$: (i) small, distribution-dependent, bounds of order of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Arthur Flajolet , Patrick Jaillet

We consider Bandits with Knapsacks (henceforth, BwK), a general model for multi-armed bandits under supply/budget constraints. In particular, a bandit algorithm needs to solve a well-known knapsack problem: find an optimal packing of items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Nicole Immorlica , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Robert Schapire , Aleksandrs Slivkins

We address a generalization of the bandit with knapsacks problem, where a learner aims to maximize rewards while satisfying an arbitrary set of long-term constraints. Our goal is to design best-of-both-worlds algorithms that perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Federico Fusco

The adversarial Bandit with Knapsack problem is a multi-armed bandits problem with budget constraints and adversarial rewards and costs. In each round, a learner selects an action to take and observes the reward and cost of the selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Mark Braverman , Jingyi Liu , Jieming Mao , Jon Schneider , Eric Xue

The bandits with knapsack (BwK) framework models online decision-making problems in which an agent makes a sequence of decisions subject to resource consumption constraints. The traditional model assumes that each action consumes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Federico Fusco

In this paper, we study the bandits with knapsacks (BwK) problem and develop a primal-dual based algorithm that achieves a problem-dependent logarithmic regret bound. The BwK problem extends the multi-arm bandit (MAB) problem to model the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xiaocheng Li , Chunlin Sun , Yinyu Ye

Bandits with Knapsacks (BwK) is a general model for multi-armed bandits under supply/budget constraints. While worst-case regret bounds for BwK are well-understood, we present three results that go beyond the worst-case perspective. First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Aleksandrs Slivkins

The stochastic multi-armed bandit problem is a well-known model for studying the exploration-exploitation trade-off. It has significant possible applications in adaptive clinical trials, which allow for dynamic changes in the treatment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hossein Aboutalebi , Doina Precup , Tibor Schuster

In the bandits with knapsacks framework (BwK) the learner has $m$ resource-consumption (packing) constraints. We focus on the generalization of BwK in which the learner has a set of general long-term constraints. The goal of the learner is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli

We study the problem of $K$-armed dueling bandit for both stochastic and adversarial environments, where the goal of the learner is to aggregate information through relative preferences of pair of decisions points queried in an online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Aadirupa Saha , Pierre Gaillard

We unify two prominent lines of work on multi-armed bandits: bandits with knapsacks (BwK) and combinatorial semi-bandits. The former concerns limited "resources" consumed by the algorithm, e.g., limited supply in dynamic pricing. The latter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Bandits with knapsacks (BwK) constitute a fundamental model that combines aspects of stochastic integer programming with online learning. Classical algorithms for BwK with a time horizon $T$ achieve a problem-independent regret bound of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yuexin Su , Ziyi Yang , Peiyuan Huang , Tongyang Li , Yinyu Ye

Multi-armed bandit problems are the most basic examples of sequential decision problems with an exploration-exploitation trade-off. This is the balance between staying with the option that gave highest payoffs in the past and exploring new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Sébastien Bubeck , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

We consider the problem of learning in single-player and multiplayer multiarmed bandit models. Bandit problems are classes of online learning problems that capture exploration versus exploitation tradeoffs. In a multiarmed bandit model,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-02 Naumaan Nayyar , Dileep Kalathil , Rahul Jain

This paper studies the impact of limited switches on resource-constrained dynamic pricing with demand learning. We focus on the classical price-based blind network revenue management problem and extend our results to the bandits with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 David Simchi-Levi , Yunzong Xu , Jinglong Zhao

This paper investigates the adversarial Bandits with Knapsack (BwK) online learning problem, where a player repeatedly chooses to perform an action, pays the corresponding cost, and receives a reward associated with the action. The player…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Anshuka Rangi , Massimo Franceschetti , Long Tran-Thanh

We investigate the contextual bandits with knapsack (CBwK) problem in a high-dimensional linear setting, where the feature dimension can be very large. Our goal is to harness sparsity to obtain sharper regret guarantees. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wanteng Ma , Dong Xia , Jiashuo Jiang

We consider a contextual version of multi-armed bandit problem with global knapsack constraints. In each round, the outcome of pulling an arm is a scalar reward and a resource consumption vector, both dependent on the context, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Shipra Agrawal , Nikhil R. Devanur , Lihong Li

The linear submodular bandit problem was proposed to simultaneously address diversified retrieval and online learning in a recommender system. If there is no uncertainty, this problem is equivalent to a submodular maximization problem under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sho Takemori , Masahiro Sato , Takashi Sonoda , Janmajay Singh , Tomoko Ohkuma

We study the problem of an online advertising system that wants to optimally spend an advertiser's given budget for a campaign across multiple platforms, without knowing the value for showing an ad to the users on those platforms. We model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vashist Avadhanula , Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Stefano Leonardi , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Okke Schrijvers
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