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# Data Poisoning Attacks on Stochastic Bandits

@article{Liu2019DataPA,
title={Data Poisoning Attacks on Stochastic Bandits},
author={Fang Liu and Ness B. Shroff},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2019},
volume={abs/1905.06494}
}
• Published 16 May 2019
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
Stochastic multi-armed bandits form a class of online learning problems that have important applications in online recommendation systems, adaptive medical treatment, and many others. Even though potential attacks against these learning algorithms may hijack their behavior, causing catastrophic loss in real-world applications, little is known about adversarial attacks on bandit algorithms. In this paper, we propose a framework of offline attacks on bandit algorithms and study convex…

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