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Stochastic convex optimization with bandit feedback

8 Jul 2011NeurIPS 2011 12arXiv:1107.1744archive 2025-07-28

Alekh Agarwal, Dean P. Foster, Daniel Hsu, Sham M. Kakade, Alexander Rakhlin

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing a convex, Lipschitz function f over a convex, compact set $\xset$ under a stochastic bandit feedback model. In this model, the algorithm is allowed to observe noisy realizations of the function value f(x) at any query point x ∈. The quantity of interest is the regret of the algorithm, which is the sum of the function values at algorithm's query points minus the optimal function value. We demonstrate a generalization of the ellipsoid algorithm that incurs ((d)√(T)) regret. Since any algorithm has regret at least Ω(√(T)) on this problem, our algorithm is optimal in terms of the scaling with T.

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