Title
Bandits with adversarial scaling
Abstract
We study "adversarial scaling", a multi-armed bandit model where rewards have a stochastic and an adversarial component. Our model captures display advertising where the "click-through-rate" can be decomposed to a (fixed across time) arm-quality component and a non-stochastic user-relevance component (fixed across arms). Despite the relative stochasticity of our model, we demonstrate two settings where most bandit algorithms suffer. On the positive side, we show that two algorithms, one from the action elimination and one from the mirror descent family are adaptive enough to be robust to adversarial scaling. Our results shed light on the robustness of adaptive parameter selection in stochastic bandits, which may be of independent interest.
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
ICML
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thodoris Lykouris1277.59
VAHAB S. MIRROKNI24309287.14
renato paes333136.45