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JMLR
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits
Tyler Lu, Dávid Pál, Martin Pal
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Multi-Armed Bandits in Metric Spaces
In a multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm chooses from a set of strategies in a sequence of n trials so as to maximize the total payoff of the chosen strategies. While ...
Robert Kleinberg, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Mortal Multi-Armed Bandits
We formulate and study a new variant of the k-armed bandit problem, motivated by e-commerce applications. In our model, arms have (stochastic) lifetime after which they expire. In...
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, Filip Radlinski,...

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Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanisms for Multi-Slot Sponsored Search Auctions
In pay-per click sponsored search auctions which are cur- rently extensively used by search engines, the auction for a keyword involves a certain number of advertisers (say k) c...
Akash Das Sarma, Sujit Gujar, Y. Narahari
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
How to Beat the Adaptive Multi-Armed Bandit
The multi-armed bandit is a concise model for the problem of iterated decision-making under uncertainty. In each round, a gambler must pull one of K arms of a slot machine, withou...
Varsha Dani, Thomas P. Hayes