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The contextual multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem is crucial in sequential decision-making. A line of research, known as online clustering of bandits, extends contextual MAB by grouping similar users into clusters, utilizing shared features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhuohua Li , Maoli Liu , Xiangxiang Dai , John C. S. Lui

Motivated by applications in energy management, this paper presents the Multi-Armed Risk-Aware Bandit (MARAB) algorithm. With the goal of limiting the exploration of risky arms, MARAB takes as arm quality its conditional value at risk. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Nicolas Galichet , Michèle Sebag , Olivier Teytaud

We study the notoriously difficult no-sensing adversarial multi-player multi-armed bandits (MP-MAB) problem from a new perspective. Instead of focusing on the hardness of multiple players, we introduce a new dimension of hardness, called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chengshuai Shi , Cong Shen

The multi-armed bandit problem (MBP) is the problem of finding, as accurately and quickly as possible, the most profitable option from a set of options that gives stochastic rewards by referring to past experiences. Inspired by fluctuated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Song-Ju Kim , Masashi Aono

Contextual multi-armed bandit (cMAB) algorithms offer a promising framework for adapting behavioral interventions to individuals over time. However, cMABs often require large samples to learn effectively and typically rely on a finite…

Multi-armed Bandit (MAB) algorithms identify the best arm among multiple arms via exploration-exploitation trade-off without prior knowledge of arm statistics. Their usefulness in wireless radio, IoT, and robotics demand deployment on edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 S. V. Sai Santosh , Sumit J. Darak

We consider the query recommendation problem in closed loop interactive learning settings like online information gathering and exploratory analytics. The problem can be naturally modelled using the Multi-Armed Bandits (MAB) framework with…

Conducting randomized experiments in education settings raises the question of how we can use machine learning techniques to improve educational interventions. Using Multi-Armed Bandits (MAB) algorithms like Thompson Sampling (TS) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Fernando J. Yanez , Angela Zavaleta-Bernuy , Ziwen Han , Michael Liut , Anna Rafferty , Joseph Jay Williams

We study the multi-player stochastic multiarmed bandit (MAB) problem in an abruptly changing environment. We consider a collision model in which a player receives reward at an arm if it is the only player to select the arm. We design two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-14 Lai Wei , Vaibhav Srivastava

We consider the channel access problem under imperfect sensing of channel state in a multi-channel opportunistic communication system, where the state of each channel evolves as an independent and identically distributed Markov process. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Kehao Wang , Lin Chen , Quan Liu , Khaldoun Al Agha

Multi-armed bandit(MAB) problem is a reinforcement learning framework where an agent tries to maximise her profit by proper selection of actions through absolute feedback for each action. The dueling bandits problem is a variation of MAB…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Nischal Agrawal , Prasanna Chaporkar

Scheduling fast uplink grant transmissions for machine type communications (MTCs) is one of the main challenges of future wireless systems. In this paper, a novel fast uplink grant scheduling method based on the theory of multi-armed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Samad Ali , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad , Nandana Rajatheva , Jussi Haapola

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a widely researched area in artificial intelligence that focuses on teaching agents decision-making through interactions with their environment. A key subset includes stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-20 Pengjie Zhou , Haoyu Wei , Huiming Zhang

We consider a multi-armed bandit setting that is inspired by real-world applications in e-commerce. In our setting, there are a few types of users, each with a specific response to the different arms. When a user enters the system, his type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Loc Bui , Ramesh Johari , Shie Mannor

This paper introduces the first asymptotically optimal strategy for a multi armed bandit (MAB) model under side constraints. The side constraints model situations in which bandit activations are limited by the availability of certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-10 Apostolos N. Burnetas , Odysseas Kanavetas , Michael N. Katehakis

This paper addresses the problem of enabling inter-machine Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) in future 6G Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks. As far as the Radio Access Network (RAN) is concerned, centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Francesco Pase , Marco Giordani , Giampaolo Cuozzo , Sara Cavallero , Joseph Eichinger , Roberto Verdone , Michele Zorzi

Multi-armed bandit (MAB) is a class of online learning problems where a learning agent aims to maximize its expected cumulative reward while repeatedly selecting to pull arms with unknown reward distributions. We consider a scenario where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Yang Cao , Zheng Wen , Branislav Kveton , Yao Xie

A restless multi-armed bandit problem that arises in multichannel opportunistic communications is considered, where channels are modeled as independent and identical Gilbert-Elliot channels and channel state observations are subject to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-11-13 Qing Zhao , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

This paper focuses on the problem of automatic link selection in multi-channel multiple access control using bandit feedback. In particular, a controller assigns multiple users to multiple channels in a time-slotted system, where in each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Mevan Wijewardena , Michael J. Neely , Haipeng Luo

In this work, we study recommendation systems modelled as contextual multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems. We propose a graph-based recommendation system that learns and exploits the geometry of the user space to create meaningful clusters in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kaige Yang , Laura Toni