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Learning algorithms are essential for the applications of game theory in a networking environment. In dynamic and decentralized settings where the traffic, topology and channel states may vary over time and the communication between agents…

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This paper establishes the equivalence between cognitive medium access and the competitive multi-armed bandit problem. First, the scenario in which a single cognitive user wishes to opportunistically exploit the availability of empty…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-09 Lifeng Lai , Hesham El Gamal , Hai Jiang , H. Vincent Poor

In many real-world applications, multiple agents seek to learn how to perform highly related yet slightly different tasks in an online bandit learning protocol. We formulate this problem as the $\epsilon$-multi-player multi-armed bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Zhi Wang , Chicheng Zhang , Manish Kumar Singh , Laurel D. Riek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We study a new stochastic multi-player multi-armed bandits (MP-MAB) problem, where the reward distribution changes if a collision occurs on the arm. Existing literature always assumes a zero reward for involved players if collision happens,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Chengshuai Shi , Cong Shen

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and user scheduling problem for a downlink nonorthogonal multiple access network where the base station allocates spectrum and power resources to a set of users. We aim to jointly optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Boya Di , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li

The target of $\mathcal{X}$-armed bandit problem is to find the global maximum of an unknown stochastic function $f$, given a finite budget of $n$ evaluations. Recently, $\mathcal{X}$-armed bandits have been widely used in many situations.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Cheng Chen , Shuang Liu , Zhihua Zhang , Wu-Jun Li

We consider decentralized restless multi-armed bandit problems with unknown dynamics and multiple players. The reward state of each arm transits according to an unknown Markovian rule when it is played and evolves according to an arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-16 Haoyang Liu , Keqin Liu , Qing Zhao

We study a decentralized channel allocation problem in an ad-hoc Internet of Things network underlaying on the spectrum licensed to a primary cellular network. In the considered network, the impoverished channel sensing/probing capability…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

We consider distributed channel access in multi-hop cognitive radio networks. Previous works on opportunistic channel access using multi-armed bandits (MAB) mainly focus on single-hop networks that assume complete conflicts among all…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Yaqin Zhou , Xiang-yang Li , Fan Li , Min Liu , Zhongcheng Li , Zhiyuan Yin

Multi-user multi-armed bandits have emerged as a good model for uncoordinated spectrum access problems. In this paper we consider the scenario where users cannot communicate with each other. In addition, the environment may appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Akshayaa Magesh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We study the problem of allocating multiple users to a set of wireless channels in a decentralized manner when the channel quali- ties are time-varying and unknown to the users, and accessing the same channel by multiple users leads to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Cem Tekin , Mingyan Liu

We consider decentralized stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with multiple players in the case of different communication probabilities between players. Each player makes a decision of pulling an arm without cooperation while aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Noyan Evirgen , Alper Kose

We consider the problem of multiple users targeting the arms of a single multi-armed stochastic bandit. The motivation for this problem comes from cognitive radio networks, where selfish users need to coexist without any side communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Orly Avner , Shie Mannor

We consider a novel multi-arm bandit (MAB) setup, where a learner needs to communicate the actions to distributed agents over erasure channels, while the rewards for the actions are directly available to the learner through external…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Osama Hanna , Merve Karakas , Lin F. Yang , Christina Fragouli

We consider the cooperative multi-player version of the stochastic multi-armed bandit problem. We study the regime where the players cannot communicate but have access to shared randomness. In prior work by the first two authors, a strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sébastien Bubeck , Thomas Budzinski , Mark Sellke

We study asynchronous distributed decision-making for scalable multi-agent bandit submodular maximization. We are motivated by distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown environments and under heterogeneous inter-agent communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pranjal Sharma , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

For a wireless avionics communication system, a Multi-arm bandit game is mathematically formulated, which includes channel states, strategies, and rewards. The simple case includes only two agents sharing the spectrum which is fully studied…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Jingyang Lu , Lun Li , Dan Shen , Genshe Chen , Bin Jia , Erik Blasch , Khanh Pham

The cooperative bandit problem is increasingly becoming relevant due to its applications in large-scale decision-making. However, most research for this problem focuses exclusively on the setting with perfect communication, whereas in most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-25 Udari Madhushani , Abhimanyu Dubey , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Alex Pentland

In recent years there is a growing effort to provide learning algorithms for spectrum collaboration. In this paper we present a medium access control protocol which allows spectrum collaboration with minimal regret and high spectral…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Tomer Boyarski , Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem

In the edge computing paradigm, mobile devices offload the computational tasks to an edge server by routing the required data over the wireless network. The full potential of edge computing becomes realized only if a smart device selects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Saeed Ghoorchian , Setareh Maghsudi