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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Chuanhao Li , Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang

Recently, there has been extensive study of cooperative multi-agent multi-armed bandits where a set of distributed agents cooperatively play the same multi-armed bandit game. The goal is to develop bandit algorithms with the optimal group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Lin Yang , Xuchuang Wang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Lijun Zhang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley

Adaptive experiment is widely adopted to estimate conditional average treatment effect (CATE) in clinical trials and many other scenarios. While the primary goal in experiment is to maximize estimation accuracy, due to the imperative of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-06 Jiachun Li , Kaining Shi , David Simchi-Levi

We introduce vector optimization problems with stochastic bandit feedback, in which preferences among designs are encoded by a polyhedral ordering cone $C$. Our setup generalizes the best arm identification problem to vector-valued rewards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Çağın Ararat , Cem Tekin

Policy optimization methods are one of the most widely used classes of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Yet, so far, such methods have been mostly analyzed from an optimization perspective, without addressing the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yonathan Efroni , Lior Shani , Aviv Rosenberg , Shie Mannor

In this paper, we formulate a Collaborative Pure Exploration in Kernel Bandit problem (CoPE-KB), which provides a novel model for multi-agent multi-task decision making under limited communication and general reward functions, and is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yihan Du , Wei Chen , Yuko Kuroki , Longbo Huang

We consider combinatorial semi-bandits over a set of arms ${\cal X} \subset \{0,1\}^d$ where rewards are uncorrelated across items. For this problem, the algorithm ESCB yields the smallest known regret bound $R(T) = {\cal O}\Big( {d (\ln…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-14 Thibaut Cuvelier , Richard Combes , Eric Gourdin

We consider a variant of the traditional multi-armed bandit problem in which each arm is only able to provide one-bit feedback during each pull based on its past history of rewards. Our main result is the following: given an upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Daniel Vial , Sanjay Shakkottai , R. Srikant

Multiplayer bandits have recently been extensively studied because of their application to cognitive radio networks. While the literature mostly considers synchronous players, radio networks (e.g. for IoT) tend to have asynchronous devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Hugo Richard , Etienne Boursier , Vianney Perchet

We study multi-objective multi-agent multi-armed bandits (MO-MA-MAB) under stochastic rewards, where agents observe heterogeneous reward vectors and communicate over time-varying graphs. We formulate this emerging problem setting to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 John Wang , Mengfan Xu

We address two-player general-sum stochastic Stackelberg games (SSGs), where the leader's policy is optimized considering the best-response follower whose policy is optimal for its reward under the leader. Existing policy gradient and value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mikoto Kudo , Youhei Akimoto

The paper addresses the Multiplayer Multi-Armed Bandit (MMAB) problem, where $M$ decision makers or players collaborate to maximize their cumulative reward. When several players select the same arm, a collision occurs and no reward is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alexandre Proutiere , Po-An Wang

In the combinatorial semi-bandit (CSB) problem, a player selects an action from a combinatorial action set and observes feedback from the base arms included in the action. While CSB is widely applicable to combinatorial optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shintaro Nakamura , Yuko Kuroki , Wei Chen

Statistical performance bounds for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can be critical for high-stakes applications like healthcare. This paper introduces a new framework for theoretically measuring the performance of such algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Christoph Dann , Tor Lattimore , Emma Brunskill

We study the problem of computing optimal correlated equilibria (CEs) in infinite-horizon multi-player stochastic games, where correlation signals are provided over time. In this setting, optimal CEs require history-dependent policies; this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiarui Gan , Rupak Majumdar

In this study, we explore a collaborative multi-agent stochastic linear bandit setting involving a network of $N$ agents that communicate locally to minimize their collective regret while keeping their expected cost under a specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Amirhossein Afsharrad , Parisa Oftadeh , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Sanjay Lall

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

We consider online no-regret learning in unknown games with bandit feedback, where each player can only observe its reward at each time -- determined by all players' current joint action -- rather than its gradient. We focus on the class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Wenjia Ba , Tianyi Lin , Jiawei Zhang , Zhengyuan Zhou

We analyze the problem of computing a correlated equilibrium that optimizes some objective (e.g., social welfare). Papadimitriou and Roughgarden [2008] gave a sufficient condition for the tractability of this problem; however, this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Albert Xin Jiang , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Single-player contextual bandits are a well-studied problem in reinforcement learning that has seen applications in various fields such as advertising, healthcare, and finance. In light of the recent work on \emph{information asymmetric}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 William Chang , Yuanhao Lu