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NIPS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
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...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
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 ...
Publication
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...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
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...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
We consider the classical multi-armed bandit problem with Markovian rewards. When played an arm changes its state in a Markovian fashion while it remains frozen when not played. Th...