Multi-Agent Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions

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Hauptverfasser: Ghaffari, Fatemeh, Wang, Xuchuang, Zuo, Jinhang, Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
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author Ghaffari, Fatemeh
Wang, Xuchuang
Zuo, Jinhang
Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
author_facet Ghaffari, Fatemeh
Wang, Xuchuang
Zuo, Jinhang
Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
contents We study the problem of multi-agent multi-armed bandits with adversarial corruption in a heterogeneous setting, where each agent accesses a subset of arms. The adversary can corrupt the reward observations for all agents. Agents share these corrupted rewards with each other, and the objective is to maximize the cumulative total reward of all agents (and not be misled by the adversary). We propose a multi-agent cooperative learning algorithm that is robust to adversarial corruptions. For this newly devised algorithm, we demonstrate that an adversary with an unknown corruption budget $C$ only incurs an additive $O((L / L_{\min}) C)$ term to the standard regret of the model in non-corruption settings, where $L$ is the total number of agents, and $L_{\min}$ is the minimum number of agents with mutual access to an arm. As a side-product, our algorithm also improves the state-of-the-art regret bounds when reducing to both the single-agent and homogeneous multi-agent scenarios, tightening multiplicative $K$ (the number of arms) and $L$ (the number of agents) factors, respectively.
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spellingShingle Multi-Agent Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions
Ghaffari, Fatemeh
Wang, Xuchuang
Zuo, Jinhang
Hajiesmaili, Mohammad
Machine Learning
We study the problem of multi-agent multi-armed bandits with adversarial corruption in a heterogeneous setting, where each agent accesses a subset of arms. The adversary can corrupt the reward observations for all agents. Agents share these corrupted rewards with each other, and the objective is to maximize the cumulative total reward of all agents (and not be misled by the adversary). We propose a multi-agent cooperative learning algorithm that is robust to adversarial corruptions. For this newly devised algorithm, we demonstrate that an adversary with an unknown corruption budget $C$ only incurs an additive $O((L / L_{\min}) C)$ term to the standard regret of the model in non-corruption settings, where $L$ is the total number of agents, and $L_{\min}$ is the minimum number of agents with mutual access to an arm. As a side-product, our algorithm also improves the state-of-the-art regret bounds when reducing to both the single-agent and homogeneous multi-agent scenarios, tightening multiplicative $K$ (the number of arms) and $L$ (the number of agents) factors, respectively.
title Multi-Agent Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08167