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Multi-armed bandits with episode context

Christopher D. Rosin

2011 · DOI: 10.1007/s10472-011-9258-6
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence · 314 Citations

TLDR

The PUCB algorithm is presented, using a predictor that places weight Mi > 0 on arm i with weights summing to 1, which achieves regret O(1M∗nlog⁡(n))O\left(\frac{1}{M_{\ast}}\sqrt{n\log(n)}\right) where M ∗  is the weight on the optimal arm.