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Online Optimization in X-Armed Bandits

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We consider a generalization of stochastic bandit problems where the set of arms, X, is allowed to be a generic topological space. We constraint the mean-payoff function with a dissimilarity function over X in a way that is more general than Lipschitz. We construct an arm selection policy whose regret improves upon previous result for a large class of problems. In particular, our results imply that if X is the unit hypercube in a Euclidean space and the mean-payoff function has a finite number of global maxima around which the behavior of the function is locally Holder with a known exponent, then the expected regret is bounded up to a logarithmic factor by $\sqrt{n}$, i.e., the rate of the growth of the regret is independent of the dimension of the space. Moreover, we prove the minimax optimality of our algorithm for the class of mean-payoff functions we consider.
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inria-00329797 , version 1 (13-10-2008)

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Sébastien Bubeck, Rémi Munos, Gilles Stoltz, Csaba Szepesvari. Online Optimization in X-Armed Bandits. Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec 2008, Vancouver, Canada. ⟨inria-00329797⟩
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