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New Bandit Algorithm Adapts to Unknown Heavy Tails

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Researchers have developed a new algorithm for heavy-tailed bandits that does not require prior knowledge of the reward distribution's tail parameters. This addresses an open problem posed at COLT 2025 by Genalti and Metelli, who noted the difficulty of inferring these parameters in practice. The proposed algorithm achieves sublinear regret by adapting to unknown moment bounds and tail exponents, effectively handling rare but extreme outcomes in sequential decision-making problems. AI

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New Bandit Algorithm Adapts to Unknown Heavy Tails

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Gianmarco Genalti, Alberto Maria Metelli ·

    Parameter-Free Heavy-Tailed Bandits

    arXiv:2607.29460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heavy-tailed distributions arise naturally in sequential decision-making problems such as financial investment, online advertising, and network management, where rare but extreme outcomes can dominate performance. Heavy-tailed bandi…

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