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Bandit Pareto Set Identification in a Multi-Output Linear Model

Cyrille Kone
Emilie Kaufmann
Laura Richert
Main:8 Pages
7 Figures
Bibliography:2 Pages
2 Tables
Appendix:20 Pages
Abstract

We study the Pareto Set Identification (PSI) problem in a structured multi-output linear bandit model. In this setting, each arm is associated a feature vector belonging to Rh\mathbb{R}^h, and its mean vector in Rd\mathbb{R}^d linearly depends on this feature vector through a common unknown matrix ΘRh×d\Theta \in \mathbb{R}^{h \times d}. The goal is to identify the set of non-dominated arms by adaptively collecting samples from the arms. We introduce and analyze the first optimal design-based algorithms for PSI, providing nearly optimal guarantees in both the fixed-budget and the fixed-confidence settings. Notably, we show that the difficulty of these tasks mainly depends on the sub-optimality gaps of hh arms only. Our theoretical results are supported by an extensive benchmark on synthetic and real-world datasets.

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