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Stochastic continuum armed bandit problem of few linear parameters in high dimensions

Abstract

We consider a stochastic continuum armed bandit problem where the arms are indexed by the 2\ell_2 ball Bd(1+ν)B_{d}(1+\nu) of radius 1+ν1+\nu in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. The reward functions r:Bd(1+ν)Rr :B_{d}(1+\nu) \rightarrow \mathbb{R} are considered to intrinsically depend on kdk \ll d unknown linear parameters so that r(x)=g(Ax)r(\mathbf{x}) = g(\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}) where A\mathbf{A} is a full rank k×dk \times d matrix. Assuming the mean reward function to be smooth we make use of results from low-rank matrix recovery literature and derive an efficient randomized algorithm which achieves a regret bound of O(C(k,d)n1+k2+k(logn)12+k)O(C(k,d) n^{\frac{1+k}{2+k}} (\log n)^{\frac{1}{2+k}}) with high probability. Here C(k,d)C(k,d) is at most polynomial in dd and kk and nn is the number of rounds or the sampling budget which is assumed to be known beforehand.

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