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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,...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Online Algorithms for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem with Markovian Rewards
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...
Cem Tekin, Mingyan Liu
COLT
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Best Arm Identification in Multi-Armed Bandits
We consider the problem of finding the best arm in a stochastic multi-armed bandit game. The regret of a forecaster is here defined by the gap between the mean reward of the optim...
Jean-Yves Audibert, Sébastien Bubeck, R&eac...
CORR
2010
Springer
189views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
An Optimal Dynamic Mechanism for Multi-Armed Bandit Processes
We consider the problem of revenue-optimal dynamic mechanism design in settings where agents' types evolve over time as a function of their (both public and private) experien...
Sham M. Kakade, Ilan Lobel, Hamid Nazerzadeh
SAC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Stochastic scheduling of active support vector learning algorithms
Active learning is a generic approach to accelerate training of classifiers in order to achieve a higher accuracy with a small number of training examples. In the past, simple ac...
Gaurav Pandey, Himanshu Gupta, Pabitra Mitra