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.

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

Computers & Technology

Zhao, Qing

Computer Science

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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

Morgan Claypool

The book introduces a series of state-of-art Bayesian models that can be used to understand and predict spatially structured population dynamics in our changing world. Several chapters are devoted to introducing models that utilize detection/non-detection data, count data, combined count and capture-recapture data, and spatial capture-recapture data, respectively. The book provides R code of Metropolis-Hastings algorithms that allow efficient computing of these complex models. The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers who are interested in using and further developing these models.

Bayesian Analysis of Spatially Structured Population Dynamics (Ecological Studies, 253)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Springer

Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Technology, Applications, and Commercialization

Wang, Jie

Zhang, Chi

Zi, Yunlong

Guo, Hengyu

Chen, Xiangyu

Technology

Wiley-VCH

Exploitation of Vocal Music (Chinese Edition)

Language and Literature Press

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