Fixed-Budget Constrained Best Arm Identification in Grouped Bandits
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Abstract (arXiv)
We study fixed budget constrained best-arm identification in grouped bandits, where each arm consists of multiple independent attributes with stochastic rewards. An arm is considered feasible only if all its attributes' means are above a given threshold. The aim is to find the feasible arm with the largest overall mean. We first derive a lower bound on the error probability for any algorithm on this setting. We then propose Feasibility Constrained Successive Rejects (FCSR), a novel algorithm that identifies the best arm while ensuring feasibility. We show it attains optimal dependence on problem parameters up to constant factors in the exponent. Empirically, FCSR outperforms natural baselines while preserving feasibility guarantees.
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- 2014On the Complexity of Best Arm Identification in Multi-Armed Bandit Modelscited by 280
- 2016Tight (Lower) Bounds for the Fixed Budget Best Arm Identification Bandit Problemcited by 79
- 2016An optimal algorithm for the Thresholding Bandit Problemcited by 62
- 2021Best Arm Identification with Safety Constraintscited by 25
- 2023Open Problem: Optimal Best Arm Identification with Fixed Budgetcited by 18
- 2022Almost Optimal Variance-Constrained Best Arm Identificationcited by 16
- 2022Constrained Pure Exploration Multi-Armed Bandits with a Fixed Budgetcited by 9
- 2020Constrained regret minimization for multi-criterion multi-armed banditscited by 6
- 2024Constrained Best Arm Identification in Grouped Banditscited by 2
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