Combinatorial Rising Bandits

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Hauptverfasser: Song, Seockbean, Yoon, Youngsik, Wang, Siwei, Chen, Wei, Ok, Jungseul
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Song, Seockbean
Yoon, Youngsik
Wang, Siwei
Chen, Wei
Ok, Jungseul
author_facet Song, Seockbean
Yoon, Youngsik
Wang, Siwei
Chen, Wei
Ok, Jungseul
contents Combinatorial online learning is a fundamental task for selecting the optimal action (or super arm) as a combination of base arms in sequential interactions with systems providing stochastic rewards. It is applicable to diverse domains such as robotics, social advertising, network routing, and recommendation systems. In many real-world scenarios, we often encounter rising rewards, where playing a base arm not only provides an instantaneous reward but also contributes to the enhancement of future rewards, e.g., robots improving through practice and social influence strengthening in the history of successful recommendations. Crucially, these enhancements may propagate to multiple super arms that share the same base arms, introducing dependencies beyond the scope of existing bandit models. To address this gap, we introduce the Combinatorial Rising Bandit (CRB) framework and propose a provably efficient and empirically effective algorithm, Combinatorial Rising Upper Confidence Bound (CRUCB). We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of CRUCB in realistic deep reinforcement learning environments and synthetic settings, while our theoretical analysis establishes tight regret bounds. Together, they underscore the practical impact and theoretical rigor of our approach. Our code is available at https://github.com/ml-postech/Combinatorial-Rising-Bandits.
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Song, Seockbean
Yoon, Youngsik
Wang, Siwei
Chen, Wei
Ok, Jungseul
Machine Learning
Combinatorial online learning is a fundamental task for selecting the optimal action (or super arm) as a combination of base arms in sequential interactions with systems providing stochastic rewards. It is applicable to diverse domains such as robotics, social advertising, network routing, and recommendation systems. In many real-world scenarios, we often encounter rising rewards, where playing a base arm not only provides an instantaneous reward but also contributes to the enhancement of future rewards, e.g., robots improving through practice and social influence strengthening in the history of successful recommendations. Crucially, these enhancements may propagate to multiple super arms that share the same base arms, introducing dependencies beyond the scope of existing bandit models. To address this gap, we introduce the Combinatorial Rising Bandit (CRB) framework and propose a provably efficient and empirically effective algorithm, Combinatorial Rising Upper Confidence Bound (CRUCB). We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of CRUCB in realistic deep reinforcement learning environments and synthetic settings, while our theoretical analysis establishes tight regret bounds. Together, they underscore the practical impact and theoretical rigor of our approach. Our code is available at https://github.com/ml-postech/Combinatorial-Rising-Bandits.
title Combinatorial Rising Bandits
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00798