Title
Bandits with Feedback Graphs and Switching Costs
Abstract
We study the adversarial multi-armed bandit problem where the learner is supplied with partial observations modeled by afeedback graphand where shifting to a new action incurs a fixed switching cost. We give two new algorithms for this problem in the informed setting. Our best algorithm achieves a pseudo-regret of (O) over bar(gamma(G)T-1/3(2/3)), where gamma(G) is the domination number of the feedback graph. This significantly improves upon the previous best result for the same problem, which was based on the independence number of G. We also present matching lower bounds for our result that we describe in detail. Finally, we give a new algorithm with improved policy regret bounds when partial counterfactual feedback is available.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019)
domination number,independence number
Field
DocType
Volume
Graph,Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Theoretical computer science
Conference
32
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1049-5258
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R. Arora148935.97
Teodor Marinov273.54
Mehryar Mohri34502448.21