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We study nonparametric contextual bandits where Lipschitz mean reward functions may change over time. We first establish the minimax dynamic regret rate in this less understood setting in terms of number of changes $L$ and total-variation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Joe Suk , Samory Kpotufe

We consider minimisation of dynamic regret in non-stationary bandits with a slowly varying property. Namely, we assume that arms' rewards are stochastic and independent over time, but that the absolute difference between the expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ramakrishnan Krishnamurthy , Aditya Gopalan

In many applications of online decision making, the environment is non-stationary and it is therefore crucial to use bandit algorithms that handle changes. Most existing approaches are designed to protect against non-smooth changes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Su Jia , Qian Xie , Nathan Kallus , Peter I. Frazier

Lipschitz bandits is a prominent version of multi-armed bandits that studies large, structured action spaces such as the $[0,1]$ interval, where similar actions are guaranteed to have similar rewards. A central theme here is the adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Chara Podimata , Aleksandrs Slivkins

We study the non-stationary stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, where the reward statistics of each arm may change several times during the course of learning. The performance of a learning algorithm is evaluated in terms of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori , Andras Gyorgy , Nevena Lazic

We consider the setting of stochastic bandit problems with a continuum of arms. We first point out that the strategies considered so far in the literature only provided theoretical guarantees of the form: given some tuning parameters, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-18 Sébastien Bubeck , Gilles Stoltz , Jia Yuan Yu

We study an infinite-armed bandit problem where actions' mean rewards are initially sampled from a reservoir distribution. Most prior works in this setting focused on stationary rewards (Berry et al., 1997; Wang et al., 2008; Bonald and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Joe Suk , Jung-hun Kim

The Lipschitz bandit problem extends stochastic bandits to a continuous action set defined over a metric space, where the expected reward function satisfies a Lipschitz condition. In this work, we introduce a new problem of Lipschitz bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zhongxuan Liu , Yue Kang , Thomas C. M. Lee

In this paper, we investigate the non-stationary combinatorial semi-bandit problem, both in the switching case and in the dynamic case. In the general case where (a) the reward function is non-linear, (b) arms may be probabilistically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Wei Chen , Liwei Wang , Haoyu Zhao , Kai Zheng

We study the Lipschitz bandit problem, where a learner sequentially maximizes an unknown Lipschitz function $f$ over a domain $\mathcal{X} \subset [0,1]^d$ using noisy pointwise evaluations. Existing regret bounds are either worst-case,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Marius Potfer , Vianney Perchet

In bandit with distribution shifts, one aims to automatically adapt to unknown changes in reward distribution, and restart exploration when necessary. While this problem has been studied for many years, a recent breakthrough of Auer et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Joe Suk , Samory Kpotufe

Non-stationary multi-armed bandits enable agents to adapt to changing environments by incorporating mechanisms to detect and respond to shifts in reward distributions, making them well-suited for dynamic settings. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shaoang Li , Jian Li

Logistic Bandits have recently attracted substantial attention, by providing an uncluttered yet challenging framework for understanding the impact of non-linearity in parametrized bandits. It was shown by Faury et al. (2020) that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Marc Abeille , Louis Faury , Clément Calauzènes

In this paper, we study the MNL-Bandit problem in a non-stationary environment and present an algorithm with a worst-case expected regret of $\tilde{O}\left( \min \left\{ \sqrt{NTL}\;,\; N^{\frac{1}{3}}(\Delta_{\infty}^{K})^{\frac{1}{3}}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Ayoub Foussoul , Vineet Goyal , Varun Gupta

This paper investigates the problem of non-stationary linear bandits, where the unknown regression parameter is evolving over time. Existing studies develop various algorithms and show that they enjoy an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Peng Zhao , Lijun Zhang , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Canonical algorithms for multi-armed bandits typically assume a stationary reward environment where the size of the action space (number of arms) is small. More recently developed methods typically relax only one of these assumptions:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Derek Everett , Fred Lu , Edward Raff , Fernando Camacho , James Holt

We introduce algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art \emph{dynamic regret} bounds for non-stationary linear stochastic bandit setting. It captures natural applications such as dynamic pricing and ads allocation in a changing environment.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wang Chi Cheung , David Simchi-Levi , Ruihao Zhu

We study a $K$-armed non-stationary bandit model where rewards change smoothly, as captured by H\"{o}lder class assumptions on rewards as functions of time. Such smooth changes are parametrized by a H\"{o}lder exponent $\beta$ and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-27 Joe Suk

We study the problem of worst case regret in piecewise stationary multi armed bandits. While the minimax theory for stationary bandits is well established, understanding analogous limits in time-varying settings is challenging. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Gal Mendelson , Eyal Tadmor

The Lipschitz bandit is a key variant of stochastic bandit problems where the expected reward function satisfies a Lipschitz condition with respect to an arm metric space. With its wide-ranging practical applications, various Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Bongsoo Yi , Yue Kang , Yao Li
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