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Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits in Constant Space
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2017
Abstract
We consider the stochastic bandit problem in the sublinear space setting, where one cannot record the win-loss record for all arms. We give an algorithm using words of space with regret \[ \sum_{i=1}^{K}\frac{1}{\Delta_i}\log \frac{\Delta_i}{\Delta}\log T \] where is the gap between the best arm and arm and is the gap between the best and the second-best arms. If the rewards are bounded away from and , this is within an factor of the optimum regret possible without space constraints.
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