Recommenadation aided Caching using Combinatorial Multi-armed Bandits

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Main Authors: J, Pavamana K, Singh, Chandramani Kishore
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Published: 2024
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author J, Pavamana K
Singh, Chandramani Kishore
author_facet J, Pavamana K
Singh, Chandramani Kishore
contents We study content caching with recommendations in a wireless network where the users are connected through a base station equipped with a finite-capacity cache. We assume a fixed set of contents with unknown user preferences and content popularities. The base station can cache a subset of the contents and can also recommend subsets of the contents to different users in order to encourage them to request the recommended contents. Recommendations, depending on their acceptability, can thus be used to increase cache hits. We first assume that the users' recommendation acceptabilities are known and formulate the cache hit optimization problem as a combinatorial multi-armed bandit (CMAB). We propose a UCB-based algorithm to decide which contents to cache and recommend and provide an upper bound on the regret of this algorithm. Subsequently, we consider a more general scenario where the users' recommendation acceptabilities are also unknown and propose another UCB-based algorithm that learns these as well. We numerically demonstrate the performance of our algorithms and compare these to state-of-the-art algorithms.
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spellingShingle Recommenadation aided Caching using Combinatorial Multi-armed Bandits
J, Pavamana K
Singh, Chandramani Kishore
Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Networking and Internet Architecture
We study content caching with recommendations in a wireless network where the users are connected through a base station equipped with a finite-capacity cache. We assume a fixed set of contents with unknown user preferences and content popularities. The base station can cache a subset of the contents and can also recommend subsets of the contents to different users in order to encourage them to request the recommended contents. Recommendations, depending on their acceptability, can thus be used to increase cache hits. We first assume that the users' recommendation acceptabilities are known and formulate the cache hit optimization problem as a combinatorial multi-armed bandit (CMAB). We propose a UCB-based algorithm to decide which contents to cache and recommend and provide an upper bound on the regret of this algorithm. Subsequently, we consider a more general scenario where the users' recommendation acceptabilities are also unknown and propose another UCB-based algorithm that learns these as well. We numerically demonstrate the performance of our algorithms and compare these to state-of-the-art algorithms.
title Recommenadation aided Caching using Combinatorial Multi-armed Bandits
topic Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00080