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Differential privacy has become a cornerstone in the development of privacy-preserving learning algorithms. This work addresses optimizing differentially private kernel learning within the empirical risk minimization (ERM) framework. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Bonwoo Lee , Cheolwoo Park , Jeongyoun Ahn

High dimensional sparse linear bandits serve as an efficient model for sequential decision-making problems (e.g. personalized medicine), where high dimensional features (e.g. genomic data) on the users are available, but only a small subset…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Sunrit Chakraborty , Saptarshi Roy , Debabrota Basu

Bandits serve as the theoretical foundation of sequential learning and an algorithmic foundation of modern recommender systems. However, recommender systems often rely on user-sensitive data, making privacy a critical concern. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-16 Achraf Azize , Debabrota Basu

We consider a high-dimensional stochastic contextual linear bandit problem when the parameter vector is $s_{0}$-sparse and the decision maker is subject to privacy constraints under both central and local models of differential privacy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Apurv Shukla

The contextual bandit problem is a theoretically justified framework with wide applications in various fields. While the previous study on this problem usually requires independence between noise and contexts, our work considers a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Xueping Gong , Jiheng Zhang

In this paper, we study kernelized bandits with distributed biased feedback. This problem is motivated by several real-world applications (such as dynamic pricing, cellular network configuration, and policy making), where users from a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Fengjiao Li , Xingyu Zhou , Bo Ji

We study a stochastic bandit problem with a general unknown reward function and a general unknown constraint function. Both functions can be non-linear (even non-convex) and are assumed to lie in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xingyu Zhou , Bo Ji

Recently differential privacy has been used for a number of streaming, data structure, and dynamic graph problems as a means of hiding the internal randomness of the data structure, so that multiple possibly adaptive queries can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shiyuan Feng , Ying Feng , George Z. Li , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

Cooperative multi-agent decision making involves a group of agents cooperatively solving learning problems while communicating over a network with delays. In this paper, we consider the kernelised contextual bandit problem, where the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Abhimanyu Dubey , Alex Pentland

We study the adversarial kernel bandit problem, in which the loss at each round is induced by an arbitrary bounded element of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). We propose an exponential-weights algorithm built on a regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu-Jie Zhang , Hao Qiu , Jonathan Scarlett , Kevin Jamieson

Data that is gathered adaptively --- via bandit algorithms, for example --- exhibits bias. This is true both when gathering simple numeric valued data --- the empirical means kept track of by stochastic bandit algorithms are biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Seth Neel , Aaron Roth

Contextual bandit algorithms are widely used in domains where it is desirable to provide a personalized service by leveraging contextual information, that may contain sensitive information that needs to be protected. Inspired by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Evrard Garcelon , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Vianney Perchet , Matteo Pirotta

Contextual bandits are a rich model for sequential decision making given side information, with important applications, e.g., in recommender systems. We propose novel algorithms for contextual bandits harnessing neural networks to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-01 Parnian Kassraie , Andreas Krause

We consider a kernelized bandit problem with a compact arm set ${X} \subset \mathbb{R}^d $ and a fixed but unknown reward function $f^*$ with a finite norm in some Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). We propose a class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Bingshan Hu , Zheng He , Danica J. Sutherland

We tackle the problem of online reward maximisation over a large finite set of actions described by their contexts. We focus on the case when the number of actions is too big to sample all of them even once. However we assume that we have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Michal Valko , Nathaniel Korda , Remi Munos , Ilias Flaounas , Nelo Cristianini

We consider the well-studied dueling bandit problem, where a learner aims to identify near-optimal actions using pairwise comparisons, under the constraint of differential privacy. We consider a general class of utility-based preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Aadirupa Saha , Hilal Asi

Contextual bandit is a general framework for online learning in sequential decision-making problems that has found application in a wide range of domains, including recommendation systems, online advertising, and clinical trials. A critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Evrard Garcelon , Vianney Perchet , Matteo Pirotta

We consider distributed kernel bandits where $N$ agents aim to collaboratively maximize an unknown reward function that lies in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Each agent sequentially queries the function to obtain noisy observations at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Nikola Pavlovic , Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao

We consider the standard $K$-armed bandit problem under a distributed trust model of differential privacy (DP), which enables to guarantee privacy without a trustworthy server. Under this trust model, previous work largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

We consider the extensive-form bandit problem, where on each trial the learner (a user coordinated by a server) plays an extensive-form game against an oblivious adversary, observing the information sets it finds itself in as well as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Stephen Pasteris , Rahul Savani , Theodore Turocy