arXiv Machine Learning By Matthias Mandl, Hanne Kekkonen

Sharper Regret Bounds for Time-Varying Gaussian Process Bandits with Constant Exploration

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arXiv:2608. 18863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study Bayesian optimization in a time-varying environment where the unknown reward function evolves according to a Gaussian process drift model.

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