Bandit Algorithms

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^ It seems we're in the broken-DB arm of the experiment!

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180728075957/http://banditalgs...

Book link: http://downloads.tor-lattimore.com/banditbook/book.pdf

I hadn't heard of this before! Bandit problems, from Wikipedia[1]: "[imagine] a gambler at a row of slot machines (sometimes known as "one-armed bandits"), who has to decide which machines to play, how many times to play each machine and in which order to play them, and whether to continue with the current machine or try a different machine."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

Just use Bayesian bandits for most binary success/fail problems. They’re very robust to a lot of weird conditions.

Seems to be having some issue but you can view the article here https://web.archive.org/web/20180729114259/http://banditalgs...