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Research reveals fundamental limits in best-arm identification algorithms

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A new research paper published on arXiv explores the fundamental limitations of fixed-budget best-arm identification algorithms. The study demonstrates that for any algorithm in this domain, there exists at least one problem instance where its error decay rate is significantly lower than that of a static oracle, which knows the arm means in advance. This finding answers an open question from 2022, indicating that fixed-budget best-arm identification does not admit a complexity class. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Motti Goldberger ·

    Fundamental Limitations of Fixed-Budget Best-Arm Identification

    arXiv:2607.11635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In fixed-budget best-arm identification, also known as ranking and selection, an algorithm has a sampling budget to distribute across $K$ arms. Each sample provides noisy feedback about that arm's mean, and the goal is to identify…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Motti Goldberger ·

    Fundamental Limitations of Fixed-Budget Best-Arm Identification

    In fixed-budget best-arm identification, also known as ranking and selection, an algorithm has a sampling budget to distribute across $K$ arms. Each sample provides noisy feedback about that arm's mean, and the goal is to identify the arm with the largest mean. A common performan…

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