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The use of unlicensed spectrum for cellular systems to mitigate spectrum scarcity has led to the development of intelligent adaptive approaches to spectrum access that improve upon traditional carrier sensing and listen-before-talk methods.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Akash Doshi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

Federated Learning (FL) offers a paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative AI, but its decentralized nature creates significant vulnerabilities to model poisoning attacks. While numerous static defenses exist, their effectiveness is…

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This paper considers the design of optimal resource allocation policies in wireless communication systems which are generically modeled as a functional optimization problem with stochastic constraints. These optimization problems have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mark Eisen , Clark Zhang , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Daniel D. Lee , Alejandro Ribeiro

We investigate the benefits of heterogeneity in multi-agent explore-exploit decision making where the goal of the agents is to maximize cumulative group reward. To do so we study a class of distributed stochastic bandit problems in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Udari Madhushani , Naomi Leonard

Device-to-device (D2D) communications is expected to play a significant role in increasing the system capacity of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. To accomplish this, efficient power and resource allocation algorithms need to be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Anushree Neogi , Prasanna Chaporkar , Abhay Karandikar

Best arm identification (or, pure exploration) in multi-armed bandits is a fundamental problem in machine learning. In this paper we study the distributed version of this problem where we have multiple agents, and they want to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Chao Tao , Qin Zhang , Yuan Zhou

In this paper, we investigate the problem of beam alignment in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, and design an optimal algorithm to reduce the overhead. Specifically, due to directional communications, the transmitter and receiver beams…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Morteza Hashemi , Ashutosh Sabharwal , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

This paper studies multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) based resource allocation methods for multi-cell wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) where multiple hybrid access points (H-APs) wirelessly charge energy-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sangwon Hwang , Hanjin Kim , Hoon Lee , Inkyu Lee

In the classical multi-armed bandit problem, instance-dependent algorithms attain improved performance on "easy" problems with a gap between the best and second-best arm. Are similar guarantees possible for contextual bandits? While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Dylan J. Foster , Alexander Rakhlin , David Simchi-Levi , Yunzong Xu

We consider resource allocation problems in multi-user wireless networks, where the goal is to optimize a network-wide utility function subject to constraints on the ergodic average performance of users. We demonstrate how a state-augmented…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yigit Berkay Uslu , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Mark Eisen , Alejandro Ribeiro

The multi-armed restless bandit problem is studied in the case where the pay-off distributions are stationary $\varphi$-mixing. This version of the problem provides a more realistic model for most real-world applications, but cannot be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Steffen Grunewalder , Azadeh Khaleghi

The enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) mechanism is used in current wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks to support priority requirements of heterogeneous applications. However, the EDCA mechanism can not adapt to particular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Qianren Li , Bojie Lv , Yuncong Hong , Rui Wang

We formulate the problem of sampling and recovering clustered graph signal as a multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. This formulation lends naturally to learning sampling strategies using the well-known gradient MAB algorithm. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-16 Oleksii Abramenko , Alexander Jung

We study a novel multi-armed bandit problem that models the challenge faced by a company wishing to explore new strategies to maximize revenue whilst simultaneously maintaining their revenue above a fixed baseline, uniformly over time.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-16 Yifan Wu , Roshan Shariff , Tor Lattimore , Csaba Szepesvári

Applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Restless Multi-Arm Bandits (RMABs) offers a promising avenue for addressing allocation problems with resource constraints and temporal dynamics. However, classic RMAB models largely overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yunfan Zhao , Tonghan Wang , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Aparna Taneja , Milind Tambe

Reviewing the previous work of diversity Rein-forcement Learning,diversity is often obtained via an augmented loss function,which requires a balance between reward and diversity.Generally,diversity optimization algorithms use Multi-armed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jingcheng Jiang , Haiyin Piao , Yu Fu , Yihang Hao , Chuanlu Jiang , Ziqi Wei , Xin Yang

Online decision-making can be formulated as the popular stochastic multi-armed bandit problem where a learner makes decisions (or takes actions) to maximize cumulative rewards collected from an unknown environment. This paper proposes to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Jonathan Gornet , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli

The gold standard of a wireless network is that the throughput increases linearly with the density of access points (APs). However, such a linear throughput gain is suspended in the 5G mmWave network mainly due to the short communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Shuqiao Jia , Behnaam Aazhang