Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Applications to Online Learning in Networks (Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, 22)

Zhao, Qing

ISBN 10: 1627056386 / ISBN 13: 9781627056380

Published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Applications to Online Learning in Networks (Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, 22)
• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627056386
• ISBN 13: 9781627056380
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Multi-armed bandit problems pertain to optimal sequential decision making and learning in unknown environments.

Since the first bandit problem posed by Thompson in 1933 for the application of clinical trials, bandit problems have enjoyed lasting attention from multiple research communities and have found a wide range of applications across diverse domains. This book covers classic results and recent development on both Bayesian and frequentist bandit problems. We start in Chapter 1 with a brief overview on the history of bandit problems, contrasting the two schools—Bayesian and frequentis —of approaches and highlighting foundational results and key applications. Chapters 2 and 4 cover, respectively, the canonical Bayesian and frequentist bandit models. In Chapters 3 and 5, we discuss major variants of the canonical bandit models that lead to new directions, bring in new techniques, and broaden the applications of this classical problem. In Chapter 6, we present several representative application examples in communication networks and social-economic systems, aiming to illuminate the connections between the Bayesian and the frequentist formulations of bandit problems and how structural results pertaining to one may be leveraged to obtain solutions under the other.