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We introduce a new graphical bilinear bandit problem where a learner (or a \emph{central entity}) allocates arms to the nodes of a graph and observes for each edge a noisy bilinear reward representing the interaction between the two end…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2021-06-14 Geovani Rizk , Albert Thomas , Igor Colin , Rida Laraki , Yann Chevaleyre

We study the problem of determining the best intervention in a Causal Bayesian Network (CBN) specified only by its causal graph. We model this as a stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem with side-information, where the interventions…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2022-05-20 Aurghya Maiti , Vineet Nair , Gaurav Sinha

We consider the problem of best arm identification in the multi-armed bandit model, under fixed confidence. Given a confidence input $\delta$, the goal is to identify the arm with the highest mean reward with a probability of at least 1 --…

机器学习 · 统计学 2023-12-21 El Mehdi Saad , Gilles Blanchard , Nicolas Verzelen

We consider a multi-armed bandit setting with finitely many arms, in which each arm yields an $M$-dimensional vector reward upon selection. We assume that the reward of each dimension (a.k.a. {\em objective}) is generated independently of…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2025-01-24 Zhirui Chen , P. N. Karthik , Yeow Meng Chee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We study the best-arm identification problem in linear bandit, where the rewards of the arms depend linearly on an unknown parameter $\theta^*$ and the objective is to return the arm with the largest reward. We characterize the complexity…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2014-11-05 Marta Soare , Alessandro Lazaric , Rémi Munos

We study the causal bandit problem when the causal graph is unknown and develop an efficient algorithm for finding the parent node of the reward node using atomic interventions. We derive the exact equation for the expected number of…

机器学习 · 统计学 2023-06-09 Mikhail Konobeev , Jalal Etesami , Negar Kiyavash

Sampling from distributions to find the one with the largest mean arises in a broad range of applications, and it can be mathematically modeled as a multi-armed bandit problem in which each distribution is associated with an arm. This paper…

机器学习 · 统计学 2013-06-18 Kevin Jamieson , Matthew Malloy , Robert Nowak , Sebastien Bubeck

We address the problem of identifying the optimal policy with a fixed confidence level in a multi-armed bandit setup, when \emph{the arms are subject to linear constraints}. Unlike the standard best-arm identification problem which is well…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2024-01-26 Emil Carlsson , Debabrota Basu , Fredrik D. Johansson , Devdatt Dubhashi

We study the causal bandit problem that entails identifying a near-optimal intervention from a specified set $A$ of (possibly non-atomic) interventions over a given causal graph. Here, an optimal intervention in ${A}$ is one that maximizes…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2023-05-09 Ayush Sawarni , Rahul Madhavan , Gaurav Sinha , Siddharth Barman

Recently multi-armed bandit problem arises in many real-life scenarios where arms must be sampled in batches, due to limited time the agent can wait for the feedback. Such applications include biological experimentation and online…

机器学习 · 统计学 2023-12-22 Shengyu Cao , Simai He , Ruoqing Jiang , Jin Xu , Hongsong Yuan

We study the Stochastic Multi-armed Bandit problem under bounded arm-memory. In this setting, the arms arrive in a stream, and the number of arms that can be stored in the memory at any time, is bounded. The decision-maker can only pull…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2020-12-10 Arnab Maiti , Vishakha Patil , Arindam Khan

In pure-exploration problems, information is gathered sequentially to answer a question on the stochastic environment. While best-arm identification for linear bandits has been extensively studied in recent years, few works have been…

机器学习 · 统计学 2022-06-10 Marc Jourdan , Rémy Degenne

We study the problem of learning 'good' interventions in a stochastic environment modeled by its underlying causal graph. Good interventions refer to interventions that maximize rewards. Specifically, we consider the setting of a…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2024-01-17 Fateme Jamshidi , Jalal Etesami , Negar Kiyavash

We consider a variant of the best arm identification task in stochastic multi-armed bandits. Motivated by risk-averse decision-making problems, our goal is to identify a set of $m$ arms with the highest $\tau$-quantile values within a fixed…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2023-02-22 Mengyan Zhang , Cheng Soon Ong

We study the problem of identifying the best arm in a stochastic multi-armed bandit game. Given a set of $n$ arms indexed from $1$ to $n$, each arm $i$ is associated with an unknown reward distribution supported on $[0,1]$ with mean…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2023-05-30 Pinyan Lu , Chao Tao , Xiaojin Zhang

We give a complete characterization of the complexity of best-arm identification in one-parameter bandit problems. We prove a new, tight lower bound on the sample complexity. We propose the `Track-and-Stop' strategy, which we prove to be…

统计理论 · 数学 2016-06-02 Aurélien Garivier , Emilie Kaufmann

We consider the question introduced by \cite{Mason2020} of identifying all the $\varepsilon$-optimal arms in a finite stochastic multi-armed bandit with Gaussian rewards. We give two lower bounds on the sample complexity of any algorithm…

机器学习 · 统计学 2022-04-07 Aymen Al Marjani , Tomáš Kocák , Aurélien Garivier

We study sequential decision-making with known rewards and unknown constraints, motivated by situations where the constraints represent expensive-to-evaluate human preferences, such as safe and comfortable driving behavior. We formalize the…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2022-06-13 David Lindner , Sebastian Tschiatschek , Katja Hofmann , Andreas Krause

We consider the problem of \textit{best arm identification} with a \textit{fixed budget $T$}, in the $K$-armed stochastic bandit setting, with arms distribution defined on $[0,1]$. We prove that any bandit strategy, for at least one bandit…

机器学习 · 统计学 2016-05-31 Alexandra Carpentier , Andrea Locatelli

In the Best-$k$-Arm problem, we are given $n$ stochastic bandit arms, each associated with an unknown reward distribution. We are required to identify the $k$ arms with the largest means by taking as few samples as possible. In this paper,…

机器学习 · 计算机科学 2017-02-15 Lijie Chen , Jian Li , Mingda Qiao