Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems
Author | : Sébastien Bubeck |
Publisher | : Now Pub |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 1601986262 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781601986269 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems by : Sébastien Bubeck
Download or read book Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems written by Sébastien Bubeck and published by Now Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph, the focus is on two extreme cases in which the analysis of regret is particularly simple and elegant: independent and identically distributed payoffs and adversarial payoffs. Besides the basic setting of finitely many actions, it analyzes some of the most important variants and extensions, such as the contextual bandit model.