Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices

Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices
Author: John Gittins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1119990211

In 1989 the first edition of this book set out Gittins' pioneering index solution to the multi-armed bandit problem and his subsequent investigation of a wide of sequential resource allocation and stochastic scheduling problems. Since then there has been a remarkable flowering of new insights, generalizations and applications, to which Glazebrook and Weber have made major contributions. This second edition brings the story up to date. There are new chapters on the achievable region approach to stochastic optimization problems, the construction of performance bounds for suboptimal policies, Whittle's restless bandits, and the use of Lagrangian relaxation in the construction and evaluation of index policies. Some of the many varied proofs of the index theorem are discussed along with the insights that they provide. Many contemporary applications are surveyed, and over 150 new references are included. Over the past 40 years the Gittins index has helped theoreticians and practitioners to address a huge variety of problems within chemometrics, economics, engineering, numerical analysis, operational research, probability, statistics and website design. This new edition will be an important resource for others wishing to use this approach.

Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices

Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices
Author: John Gittins
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780470670026

In 1989 the first edition of this book set out Gittins' pioneering index solution to the multi-armed bandit problem and his subsequent investigation of a wide of sequential resource allocation and stochastic scheduling problems. Since then there has been a remarkable flowering of new insights, generalizations and applications, to which Glazebrook and Weber have made major contributions. This second edition brings the story up to date. There are new chapters on the achievable region approach to stochastic optimization problems, the construction of performance bounds for suboptimal policies, Whittle's restless bandits, and the use of Lagrangian relaxation in the construction and evaluation of index policies. Some of the many varied proofs of the index theorem are discussed along with the insights that they provide. Many contemporary applications are surveyed, and over 150 new references are included. Over the past 40 years the Gittins index has helped theoreticians and practitioners to address a huge variety of problems within chemometrics, economics, engineering, numerical analysis, operational research, probability, statistics and website design. This new edition will be an important resource for others wishing to use this approach.

Bandit Algorithms

Bandit Algorithms
Author: Tor Lattimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108486827

A comprehensive and rigorous introduction for graduate students and researchers, with applications in sequential decision-making problems.

Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits

Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits
Author: Aleksandrs Slivkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781680836202

Multi-armed bandits is a rich, multi-disciplinary area that has been studied since 1933, with a surge of activity in the past 10-15 years. This is the first book to provide a textbook like treatment of the subject.

Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems

Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems
Author: Sébastien Bubeck
Publisher: Now Pub
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781601986269

In this monograph, the focus is on two extreme cases in which the analysis of regret is particularly simple and elegant: independent and identically distributed payoffs and adversarial payoffs. Besides the basic setting of finitely many actions, it analyzes some of the most important variants and extensions, such as the contextual bandit model.

Bandit problems

Bandit problems
Author: Donald A. Berry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401537119

Our purpose in writing this monograph is to give a comprehensive treatment of the subject. We define bandit problems and give the necessary foundations in Chapter 2. Many of the important results that have appeared in the literature are presented in later chapters; these are interspersed with new results. We give proofs unless they are very easy or the result is not used in the sequel. We have simplified a number of arguments so many of the proofs given tend to be conceptual rather than calculational. All results given have been incorporated into our style and notation. The exposition is aimed at a variety of types of readers. Bandit problems and the associated mathematical and technical issues are developed from first principles. Since we have tried to be comprehens ive the mathematical level is sometimes advanced; for example, we use measure-theoretic notions freely in Chapter 2. But the mathema tically uninitiated reader can easily sidestep such discussion when it occurs in Chapter 2 and elsewhere. We have tried to appeal to graduate students and professionals in engineering, biometry, econ omics, management science, and operations research, as well as those in mathematics and statistics. The monograph could serve as a reference for professionals or as a telA in a semester or year-long graduate level course.

Algorithmic Learning Theory

Algorithmic Learning Theory
Author: Ricard Gavaldà
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364204414X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2009, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2009, co-located with the 12th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2009. The 26 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are divided into topical sections of papers on online learning, learning graphs, active learning and query learning, statistical learning, inductive inference, and semisupervised and unsupervised learning. The volume also contains abstracts of the invited talks: Sanjoy Dasgupta, The Two Faces of Active Learning; Hector Geffner, Inference and Learning in Planning; Jiawei Han, Mining Heterogeneous; Information Networks By Exploring the Power of Links, Yishay Mansour, Learning and Domain Adaptation; Fernando C.N. Pereira, Learning on the Web.

Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management

Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management
Author: Alfred Olivier Hero
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-11-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780387278926

This book covers control theory signal processing and relevant applications in a unified manner. It introduces the area, takes stock of advances, and describes open problems and challenges in order to advance the field. The editors and contributors to this book are pioneers in the area of active sensing and sensor management, and represent the diverse communities that are targeted.

Algorithmic Learning Theory

Algorithmic Learning Theory
Author: Marcus Hutter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2007-09-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540752242

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2007, held in Sendai, Japan, October 1-4, 2007, co-located with the 10th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2007. The 25 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of machine learning.

Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communications

Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communications
Author: Fa-Long Luo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119562252

A comprehensive review to the theory, application and research of machine learning for future wireless communications In one single volume, Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communications provides a comprehensive and highly accessible treatment to the theory, applications and current research developments to the technology aspects related to machine learning for wireless communications and networks. The technology development of machine learning for wireless communications has grown explosively and is one of the biggest trends in related academic, research and industry communities. Deep neural networks-based machine learning technology is a promising tool to attack the big challenge in wireless communications and networks imposed by the increasing demands in terms of capacity, coverage, latency, efficiency flexibility, compatibility, quality of experience and silicon convergence. The author – a noted expert on the topic – covers a wide range of topics including system architecture and optimization, physical-layer and cross-layer processing, air interface and protocol design, beamforming and antenna configuration, network coding and slicing, cell acquisition and handover, scheduling and rate adaption, radio access control, smart proactive caching and adaptive resource allocations. Uniquely organized into three categories: Spectrum Intelligence, Transmission Intelligence and Network Intelligence, this important resource: Offers a comprehensive review of the theory, applications and current developments of machine learning for wireless communications and networks Covers a range of topics from architecture and optimization to adaptive resource allocations Reviews state-of-the-art machine learning based solutions for network coverage Includes an overview of the applications of machine learning algorithms in future wireless networks Explores flexible backhaul and front-haul, cross-layer optimization and coding, full-duplex radio, digital front-end (DFE) and radio-frequency (RF) processing Written for professional engineers, researchers, scientists, manufacturers, network operators, software developers and graduate students, Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communications presents in 21 chapters a comprehensive review of the topic authored by an expert in the field.