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:2502. 13467v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The $K$-Max combinatorial multi-armed bandit problem arises in applications such as recommendation and distributed decision making, where the reward is determined by the maximum outcome among $K$ selected arms.
By Yu Chen, Siwei Wang, Longbo Huang, Wei Chen
arXiv:2607. 02891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many online decision-making problems involve both round-specific feasible actions and drifting reward models: eligible ad impressions, feasible prices, and available treatments can change over time, while user preferences, demand curves, and patient responses may evolve.
By Zihao Hu, Yuan Yao, Jiheng Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhou
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
arXiv:2604. 20024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study replicable algorithms for stochastic multi-armed bandits (MAB) and linear bandits with UCB (Upper Confidence Bound) based exploration.
By Rohan Deb, Udaya Ghai, Karan Singh, Arindam Banerjee
arXiv:2607. 13686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the contextual combinatorial semi-bandit (CCSB) problem with general reward function approximation.
By Hao Qin, Chicheng Zhang