Stochastic multi-armed-bandit problem with non-stationary rewards

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 1, Issue January, 2014, Pages 199-207

  Besbes, Omar ^a   Gur, Yonatan ^b   Zeevi, Assaf ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DIRECT LINKS; MATHEMATICAL TRACTABILITY; MULTI ARMED BANDIT; MULTI-ARMED BANDIT PROBLEM; NONSTATIONARY; TEMPORAL UNCERTAINTY; TRADE OFF;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84937906754     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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