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New algorithm shows fixed-budget AI problems are no harder than fixed-confidence

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Researchers have demonstrated that the fixed-budget setting in best-arm identification problems is no harder than the fixed-confidence setting, up to logarithmic factors. They developed a meta-algorithm called FC2FB that converts fixed-confidence algorithms into fixed-budget ones. This new approach can lead to improved sample complexity for various fixed-budget problems by leveraging existing state-of-the-art fixed-confidence algorithms. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient algorithms for problems involving sequential decision-making and exploration in machine learning.

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New algorithm shows fixed-budget AI problems are no harder than fixed-confidence

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Kapilan Balagopalan, Yinan Li, Yao Zhao, Tuan Nguyen, Anton Daitche, Houssam Nassif, Kwang-Sung Jun ·

    Fixed Budget is No Harder Than Fixed Confidence in Best-Arm Identification up to Logarithmic Factors

    arXiv:2602.03972v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The best-arm identification (BAI) problem is one of the most fundamental problems in interactive machine learning, which has two flavors: the fixed-budget setting (FB) and the fixed-confidence setting (FC). For $K$-armed bandits…

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