Best Group Identification in Multi-Objective Bandits

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Hauptverfasser: Shahverdikondori, Mohammad, Badri, Mohammad Reza, Kiyavash, Negar
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author Shahverdikondori, Mohammad
Badri, Mohammad Reza
Kiyavash, Negar
author_facet Shahverdikondori, Mohammad
Badri, Mohammad Reza
Kiyavash, Negar
contents We introduce the Best Group Identification problem in a multi-objective multi-armed bandit setting, where an agent interacts with groups of arms with vector-valued rewards. The performance of a group is determined by an efficiency vector which represents the group's best attainable rewards across different dimensions. The objective is to identify the set of optimal groups in the fixed-confidence setting. We investigate two key formulations: group Pareto set identification, where efficiency vectors of optimal groups are Pareto optimal and linear best group identification, where each reward dimension has a known weight and the optimal group maximizes the weighted sum of its efficiency vector's entries. For both settings, we propose elimination-based algorithms, establish upper bounds on their sample complexity, and derive lower bounds that apply to any correct algorithm. Through numerical experiments, we demonstrate the strong empirical performance of the proposed algorithms.
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Shahverdikondori, Mohammad
Badri, Mohammad Reza
Kiyavash, Negar
Machine Learning
We introduce the Best Group Identification problem in a multi-objective multi-armed bandit setting, where an agent interacts with groups of arms with vector-valued rewards. The performance of a group is determined by an efficiency vector which represents the group's best attainable rewards across different dimensions. The objective is to identify the set of optimal groups in the fixed-confidence setting. We investigate two key formulations: group Pareto set identification, where efficiency vectors of optimal groups are Pareto optimal and linear best group identification, where each reward dimension has a known weight and the optimal group maximizes the weighted sum of its efficiency vector's entries. For both settings, we propose elimination-based algorithms, establish upper bounds on their sample complexity, and derive lower bounds that apply to any correct algorithm. Through numerical experiments, we demonstrate the strong empirical performance of the proposed algorithms.
title Best Group Identification in Multi-Objective Bandits
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17869