arXiv:2512. 00517v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequential optimization of black-box functions from noisy evaluations has been widely studied, with Gaussian Process bandit algorithms such as GP-UCB guaranteeing no-regret in stationary settings.
By Eliabelle Mauduit, Elo\"ise Berthier, Andrea Simonetto
arXiv:2603. 09276v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study a widely used Bayesian optimization method, Gaussian process Thompson sampling (GP-TS), under the assumption that the objective function is a sample path from a GP.
By Shion Takeno, Shogo Iwazaki
arXiv:2608. 16492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies the regret analysis for parallel Gaussian process (GP) bandit optimization.
By Shion Takeno, Shogo Iwazaki
arXiv:2609. 01999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a variant of the Thompson Sampling (TS) algorithm, called $\alpha$-TS, for solving stochastic generalized linear bandit problems.
By Prateek Jaiswal, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya, Bani K. Mallick
arXiv:2606. 28616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In stochastic linear bandits, the canonical Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithm admits a simple frequentist regret analysis but can be computationally demanding, while Thompson Sampling (TS) is computationally attractive yet typically harder to analyze due to its non-optimistic nature.
By Toshinori Kitamura, Shuai Liu, Csaba Szepesv\'ari
arXiv:2601. 02022v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We prove that Thompson sampling exhibits $\tilde{O}(\sigma d \sqrt{T} + d r \sqrt{\mathrm{Tr}(\Sigma_0)})$ Bayesian regret in the linear-Gaussian bandit with a $\mathcal{N}(\mu_0, \Sigma_0)$ prior distribution on the coefficients, where $d$ is the dimension, $T$ is the time horizon, $r$ is the maximum $\ell_2$ norm of the actions, and $\sigma^2$ is the noise variance.
By Yifan Zhu, John C. Duchi, Benjamin Van Roy
arXiv:2606. 08028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study high-probability regret bounds for online convex optimization (OCO) with strongly convex losses and establish three results that resolve open questions at the intersection of noise adaptivity, feedback structure, and constraint satisfaction.
By Wentao Zhang, Yutong Zhang, Wentao Mo
arXiv:2502. 08870v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We provide an approach for the analysis of randomised exploration algorithms like Thompson sampling that does not rely on forced optimism or posterior inflation.
By Marc Abeille, David Janz, Ciara Pike-Burke
arXiv:2601. 07094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) iteratively fits a Gaussian process (GP) surrogate to accumulated evaluations and selects new queries via an acquisition function.
By Jiguang Li, Hengrui Luo
arXiv:2605. 09454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the $\textit{single-index bandit}$ problem, where rewards depend on an unknown one-dimensional projection of high-dimensional contexts through an unknown reward function.
By Devdan Dey, Sujoy Bhore, Avishek Ghosh
arXiv:2309. 06349v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Thompson sampling (TS) is one of the most popular and earliest algorithms to solve stochastic multi-armed bandit problems.
By Prateek Jaiswal, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya, Bani K. Mallick
arXiv:2307. 03587v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In non-stationary linear contextual bandits, existing efficient algorithms typically rely on the Weighted Regularized Least-Squares (WRLS) estimator.
By Nicklas Werge, Yi-Shan Wu, Abdullah Akg\"ul, Melih Kandemir