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We study the problem of minimizing gap-dependent regret for single-pass streaming stochastic multi-armed bandits (MAB). In this problem, the $n$ arms are present in a stream, and at most $m<n$ arms and their statistics can be stored in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zichun Ye , Chihao Zhang , Jiahao Zhao

We study a bandit version of phase retrieval where the learner chooses actions $(A_t)_{t=1}^n$ in the $d$-dimensional unit ball and the expected reward is $\langle A_t, \theta_\star\rangle^2$ where $\theta_\star \in \mathbb R^d$ is an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-07 Tor Lattimore , Botao Hao

We study a decentralized multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem in which multiple clients are connected by time dependent random graphs provided by an environment. The reward distributions of each arm vary across clients and rewards are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Mengfan Xu , Diego Klabjan

In this paper, the problem of distributed optimization is studied via a network of agents. Each agent only has access to a stochastic gradient of its own objective function in the previous time, and can communicate with its neighbors via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Yuchen Yang , Kaihong Lu , Long Wang

Bandit-style algorithms have been studied extensively in stochastic and adversarial settings. Such algorithms have been shown to be useful in multiplayer settings, e.g. to solve the wireless network selection problem, which can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Shunhao Oh , Anuja Meetoo Appavoo , Seth Gilbert

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems are challenging due to information asymmetry. To overcome this challenge, existing methods often require high level of coordination or communication between the agents. We consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Hsu Kao , Chen-Yu Wei , Vijay Subramanian

In a low-rank linear bandit problem, the reward of an action (represented by a matrix of size $d_1 \times d_2$) is the inner product between the action and an unknown low-rank matrix $\Theta^*$. We propose an algorithm based on a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Yangyi Lu , Amirhossein Meisami , Ambuj Tewari

This paper addresses the problem of learning to sparsify stochastic linear bandits, where a decision-maker sequentially selects actions from a high-dimensional space subject to a sparsity constraint on the number of nonzero elements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengmiao Wang , Ming Chi , Zhi-Wei Liu , Lintao Ye , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

We consider a system consisting of a single transmitter/receiver pair and $N$ channels over which they may communicate. Packets randomly arrive to the transmitter's queue and wait to be successfully sent to the receiver. The transmitter may…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Thomas Stahlbuhk , Brooke Shrader , Eytan Modiano

We study the problem of incentive-compatible online learning with bandit feedback. In this class of problems, the experts are self-interested agents who might misrepresent their preferences with the goal of being selected most often. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Julian Zimmert , Teodor V. Marinov

The Competing Bandits framework is a recently emerging area that integrates multi-armed bandits in online learning with stable matching in game theory. While conventional models assume that all players and arms are constantly available, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shinnosuke Uba , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We present a new strategy for gap estimation in randomized algorithms for multiarmed bandits and combine it with the EXP3++ algorithm of Seldin and Slivkins (2014). In the stochastic regime the strategy reduces dependence of regret on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Yevgeny Seldin , Gábor Lugosi

This paper addresses the distributed online control problem over a network of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems (with possibly unknown dynamics) in the presence of adversarial perturbations. There exists a global network cost that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

We design new differentially private algorithms for the problems of adversarial bandits and bandits with expert advice. For adversarial bandits, we give a simple and efficient conversion of any non-private bandit algorithm to a private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hilal Asi , Vinod Raman , Kunal Talwar

This paper studies online shortest path routing over multi-hop networks. Link costs or delays are time-varying and modeled by independent and identically distributed random processes, whose parameters are initially unknown. The parameters,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-19 M. Sadegh Talebi , Zhenhua Zou , Richard Combes , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson

Dueling bandits are widely used to model preferential feedback prevalent in many applications such as recommendation systems and ranking. In this paper, we study the Borda regret minimization problem for dueling bandits, which aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yue Wu , Tao Jin , Hao Lou , Farzad Farnoud , Quanquan Gu

We study stochastic linear bandits where, in each round, the learner receives a set of actions (i.e., feature vectors), from which it chooses an element and obtains a stochastic reward. The expected reward is a fixed but unknown linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tianyuan Jin , Kyoungseok Jang , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

We study nonparametric contextual bandits under batch constraints, where the expected reward for each action is modeled as a smooth function of covariates, and the policy updates are made at the end of each batch of observations. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Rong Jiang , Cong Ma

We consider the non-stochastic version of the (cooperative) multi-player multi-armed bandit problem. The model assumes no communication at all between the players, and furthermore when two (or more) players select the same action this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Sébastien Bubeck , Yuanzhi Li , Yuval Peres , Mark Sellke

We study the $K$-armed dueling bandit problem, a variation of the traditional multi-armed bandit problem in which feedback is obtained in the form of pairwise comparisons. Previous learning algorithms have focused on the $\textit{fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Arpit Agarwal , Rohan Ghuge , Viswanath Nagarajan