arXiv:2311. 07565v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce exploration via linear loss perturbations (EVILL), a randomised exploration method for structured stochastic bandit problems that works by solving for the minimiser of a linearly perturbed regularised negative log-likelihood function.
By David Janz, Shuai Liu, Alex Ayoub, Csaba Szepesv\'ari
arXiv:2603. 28201v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit the standard perturbation-based approach of Abernethy et al.
By Andrew Jacobsen, Dorian Baudry, Shinji Ito, Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi
arXiv:2605. 09200v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study adversarial noisy bandits given a known function class $\mathcal{F}$.
By Steve Hanneke, Kun Wang
arXiv:2605. 01752v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study linear dueling bandits in volatile environments characterized by the simultaneous presence of post-serving contexts, delayed feedback, and adversarial corruption.
By Youngmin Oh
arXiv:2608. 15050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online convex optimization with dueling (pairwise comparison) feedback, where the learner observes only a binary preference between two queried points.
By Yiyang Lu, Hareshkumar Jadav, Mohammad Pedramfar, Ranveer Singh, Vaneet Aggarwal
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:2606. 31480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study constrained online convex optimization with adversarial losses and stochastic or adversarial constraints.
By Kihyun Yu, Junehee Lee, Dabeen Lee
arXiv:2603. 10184v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Statistical inference with bandit data presents fundamental challenges owing to adaptive sampling, which violates the independence assumptions underlying classical asymptotic theory.
By Budhaditya Halder, Ishan Sengupta, Koustav Chowdhury, Samya Praharaj, Koulik Khamaru
arXiv:2607. 07304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper we first study the problem of generalized linear bandit (GLB) under heavy-tailed noise.
By Tianshuo Zheng, Ting Wu, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Keqin Liu
arXiv:2604. 11151v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop parameter-free algorithms for unconstrained online learning with regret guarantees that scale with the gradient variation $V_T(u) = \sum_{t=2}^T \|\nabla f_t(u)-\nabla f_{t-1}(u)\|^2$.
By Yuheng Zhao, Andrew Jacobsen, Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi, Peng Zhao
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:2607. 23679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in tackling heteroscedastic noise in bandits and reinforcement learning.
By Heyang Zhao, Tianyuan Jin, Weixin Wang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Pan Xu, Quanquan Gu