Bandit online learning with unknown delays

B Li, T Chen, GB Giannakis - The 22nd International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence …, 2019proceedings.mlr.press
This paper deals with bandit online learning, where feedback of unknown delay can emerge
in non-stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) and bandit convex optimization (BCO) settings.
MAB and BCO require only values of the objective function to become available through
feedback, and are used to estimate the gradient appearing in the corresponding iterative
algorithms. Since the challenging case of feedback with unknown delays prevents one from
constructing the sought gradient estimates, existing MAB and BCO algorithms become …
Abstract
This paper deals with bandit online learning, where feedback of unknown delay can emerge in non-stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) and bandit convex optimization (BCO) settings. MAB and BCO require only values of the objective function to become available through feedback, and are used to estimate the gradient appearing in the corresponding iterative algorithms. Since the challenging case of feedback with unknown delays prevents one from constructing the sought gradient estimates, existing MAB and BCO algorithms become intractable. Delayed exploration, exploitation, and exponential (DEXP3) iterations, along with delayed bandit gradient descent (DBGD) iterations are developed for MAB and BCO with unknown delays, respectively. Based on a unifying analysis framework, it is established that both DEXP3 and DBGD guarantee an regret, where denotes the delay accumulated over slots, and represents the number of arms in MAB or the dimension of decision variables in BCO. Numerical tests using both synthetic and real data validate DEXP3 and DBGD.
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