On top-k selection in multi-armed bandits and hidden bipartite graphs

This paper discusses how to efficiently choose from $n$ unknown distributions the $k$ ones whose means are the greatest by a certain metric, up to a small relative error. We study the topic under two standard settings---multi-armed bandits and hidden bipartite graphs---which differ in the nature of...

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Main Authors: CAO, Wei, LI, Jian, TAO, Yufei, LI, Zhize
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8671
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9674/viewcontent/NIPS15_full_MAB.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English