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Minimax Policy for Heavy-tailed Bandits

Abstract

We study the stochastic Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problem under worst-case regret and heavy-tailed reward distribution. We modify the minimax policy MOSS for the sub-Gaussian reward distribution by using saturated empirical mean to design a new algorithm called Robust MOSS. We show that if the moment of order 1+ε for the reward distribution exists, then the refined strategy has a worst-case regret matching the lower bound while maintaining a distribution-dependent logarithm regret.

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