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CRIMED: Lower and Upper Bounds on Regret for Bandits with Unbounded Stochastic Corruption

28 September 2023
Shubhada Agrawal
Timothée Mathieu
D. Basu
Odalric-Ambrym Maillard
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Abstract

We investigate the regret-minimisation problem in a multi-armed bandit setting with arbitrary corruptions. Similar to the classical setup, the agent receives rewards generated independently from the distribution of the arm chosen at each time. However, these rewards are not directly observed. Instead, with a fixed ε∈(0,12)\varepsilon\in (0,\frac{1}{2})ε∈(0,21​), the agent observes a sample from the chosen arm's distribution with probability 1−ε1-\varepsilon1−ε, or from an arbitrary corruption distribution with probability ε\varepsilonε. Importantly, we impose no assumptions on these corruption distributions, which can be unbounded. In this setting, accommodating potentially unbounded corruptions, we establish a problem-dependent lower bound on regret for a given family of arm distributions. We introduce CRIMED, an asymptotically-optimal algorithm that achieves the exact lower bound on regret for bandits with Gaussian distributions with known variance. Additionally, we provide a finite-sample analysis of CRIMED's regret performance. Notably, CRIMED can effectively handle corruptions with ε\varepsilonε values as high as 12\frac{1}{2}21​. Furthermore, we develop a tight concentration result for medians in the presence of arbitrary corruptions, even with ε\varepsilonε values up to 12\frac{1}{2}21​, which may be of independent interest. We also discuss an extension of the algorithm for handling misspecification in Gaussian model.

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