arXiv Machine Learning By Motti Goldberger

Fundamental Limitations of Fixed-Budget Best-Arm Identification

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arXiv:2607. 11635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In fixed-budget best-arm identification, also known as ranking and selection, an algorithm has a sampling budget to distribute across $K$ arms.

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