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Generalized Policy Elimination: an efficient algorithm for Nonparametric Contextual Bandits

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We propose the Generalized Policy Elimination (GPE) algorithm, an oracle-efficient contextual bandit (CB) algorithm inspired by the Policy Elimination algorithm of \cite{dudik2011}. We prove the first regret optimality guarantee theorem for an oracle-efficient CB algorithm competing against a nonparametric class with infinite VC-dimension. Specifically, we show that GPE is regret-optimal (up to logarithmic factors) for policy classes with integrable entropy. For classes with larger entropy, we show that the core techniques used to analyze GPE can be used to design an $\varepsilon$-greedy algorithm with regret bound matching that of the best algorithms to date. We illustrate the applicability of our algorithms and theorems with examples of large nonparametric policy classes, for which the relevant optimization oracles can be efficiently implemented.

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hal-02548934 , version 1 (21-04-2020)

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Aurélien F. Bibaut, Antoine Chambaz, Mark J. van Der Laan. Generalized Policy Elimination: an efficient algorithm for Nonparametric Contextual Bandits. 124, pp.1099-1108, 2020, Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). ⟨hal-02548934⟩
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