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UniRank: Unimodal Bandit Algorithm for Online Ranking

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We tackle, in the multiple-play bandit setting, the online ranking problem of assigning $L$ items to $K$ predefined positions on a web page in order to maximize the number of user clicks. We propose a generic algorithm, UniRank, that tackles state-of-the-art click models. The regret bound of this algorithm is a direct consequence of the unimodality-like property of the bandit setting with respect to a graph where nodes are ordered sets of indistinguishable items. The main contribution of UniRank is its $O\left(L/\Delta \log T\right)$ regret for $T$ consecutive assignments, where $\Delta$ relates to the reward-gap between two items. This regret bound is based on the usually implicit condition that two items may not have the same attractiveness. Experiments against state-of-the-art learning algorithms specialized or not for different click models, show that our method has better regret performance than other generic algorithms on real life and synthetic datasets.
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hal-03740981 , version 1 (02-08-2022)

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Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier, Romaric Gaudel, Elisa Fromont. UniRank: Unimodal Bandit Algorithm for Online Ranking. ICML 2022 - 39th International Conference on Machine Learning, Jul 2022, Baltimore, United States. pp.1-31. ⟨hal-03740981⟩
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