Contextual Combinatorial Bandits with Probabilistically Triggered Arms

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Autores principales: Liu, Xutong, Zuo, Jinhang, Wang, Siwei, Lui, John C. S., Hajiesmaili, Mohammad, Wierman, Adam, Chen, Wei
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Publicado: 2023
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author Liu, Xutong
Zuo, Jinhang
Wang, Siwei
Lui, John C. S.
Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
Wierman, Adam
Chen, Wei
author_facet Liu, Xutong
Zuo, Jinhang
Wang, Siwei
Lui, John C. S.
Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
Wierman, Adam
Chen, Wei
contents We study contextual combinatorial bandits with probabilistically triggered arms (C$^2$MAB-T) under a variety of smoothness conditions that capture a wide range of applications, such as contextual cascading bandits and contextual influence maximization bandits. Under the triggering probability modulated (TPM) condition, we devise the C$^2$-UCB-T algorithm and propose a novel analysis that achieves an $\tilde{O}(d\sqrt{KT})$ regret bound, removing a potentially exponentially large factor $O(1/p_{\min})$, where $d$ is the dimension of contexts, $p_{\min}$ is the minimum positive probability that any arm can be triggered, and batch-size $K$ is the maximum number of arms that can be triggered per round. Under the variance modulated (VM) or triggering probability and variance modulated (TPVM) conditions, we propose a new variance-adaptive algorithm VAC$^2$-UCB and derive a regret bound $\tilde{O}(d\sqrt{T})$, which is independent of the batch-size $K$. As a valuable by-product, our analysis technique and variance-adaptive algorithm can be applied to the CMAB-T and C$^2$MAB setting, improving existing results there as well. We also include experiments that demonstrate the improved performance of our algorithms compared with benchmark algorithms on synthetic and real-world datasets.
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spellingShingle Contextual Combinatorial Bandits with Probabilistically Triggered Arms
Liu, Xutong
Zuo, Jinhang
Wang, Siwei
Lui, John C. S.
Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
Wierman, Adam
Chen, Wei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
We study contextual combinatorial bandits with probabilistically triggered arms (C$^2$MAB-T) under a variety of smoothness conditions that capture a wide range of applications, such as contextual cascading bandits and contextual influence maximization bandits. Under the triggering probability modulated (TPM) condition, we devise the C$^2$-UCB-T algorithm and propose a novel analysis that achieves an $\tilde{O}(d\sqrt{KT})$ regret bound, removing a potentially exponentially large factor $O(1/p_{\min})$, where $d$ is the dimension of contexts, $p_{\min}$ is the minimum positive probability that any arm can be triggered, and batch-size $K$ is the maximum number of arms that can be triggered per round. Under the variance modulated (VM) or triggering probability and variance modulated (TPVM) conditions, we propose a new variance-adaptive algorithm VAC$^2$-UCB and derive a regret bound $\tilde{O}(d\sqrt{T})$, which is independent of the batch-size $K$. As a valuable by-product, our analysis technique and variance-adaptive algorithm can be applied to the CMAB-T and C$^2$MAB setting, improving existing results there as well. We also include experiments that demonstrate the improved performance of our algorithms compared with benchmark algorithms on synthetic and real-world datasets.
title Contextual Combinatorial Bandits with Probabilistically Triggered Arms
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17110