arXiv:2602. 17315v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Flickering Multi-Armed Bandits (FMAB) to model sequential decision-making in environments with changing action availability, where accessibility of the next action is restricted to a subset dependent on the agent's current choice.
By Sourav Chakraborty, Amit Kiran Rege, Claire Monteleoni, Lijun Chen
arXiv:2603. 05559v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decision makers exploiting photonic chaotic dynamics obtained by semiconductor lasers provide an ultrafast approach to solving multi-armed bandit problems by using a temporal optical signal as the driving source for sequential decisions.
By Tomoki Yamagami, Mikio Hasegawa, Takatomo Mihana, Ryoichi Horisaki, Atsushi Uchida
arXiv:2606. 09002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a stochastic multi-armed bandit problem in which the set of available arms expands over time.
By Deqi Zheng, Xiaoyang Xu, Yuhong Yang
arXiv:2602. 17976v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In active sequential testing, also termed pure exploration, a learner is tasked with the goal to adaptively acquire information so as to identify an unknown ground-truth hypothesis with as few queries as possible.
By Alessio Russo, Yin-Ching Lee, Ryan Welch, Aldo Pacchiano
arXiv:2608. 01069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bandit algorithms generate data for downstream inference, but adaptive sampling biases post-bandit sample means.
By Lisu Wang, Yilun Chen, Jiaqi Lu
arXiv:2602. 05139v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study bandits whose rewards depend on an unobserved Markov state that evolves independently of the learner's actions.
By Jikai Jin, Kenneth Hung, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Baoyi Shi, Congshan Zhang