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Multi-armed bandit

Known as: N-armed bandit, Two-armed bandit, K-armed bandit 
In probability theory, the multi-armed bandit problem (sometimes called the K- or N-armed bandit problem) is a problem in which a gambler at a row of… 
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A/B testingBayesian optimizationDesign of experimentsGreedy algorithm

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Machine learningStochastic optimization

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2013
2013
Achieving complete learning in Multi-Armed Bandit problems
In the classic Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problem, there is a given set of arms with unknown reward distributions. At each time, a… 
2012
2012
Group recommendations via multi-armed bandits
We study recommendations for persistent groups that repeatedly engage in a joint activity. We approach this as a multi-arm bandit… 
2012
2012
A Decision Task in a Social Context: Human Experiments, Models, and Analyses of Behavioral Data
To investigate the influence of information about fellow group members in a constrained decision-making context, we develop four… 
2010
2010
Tug-of-War Model for Multi-armed Bandit Problem
We propose a model - the "tug-of-war (TOW) model" - to conduct unique parallel searches using many nonlocally correlated search… 
2010
2010
Decentralized multi-armed bandit with imperfect observations
We consider decentralized multi-armed bandit problems with multiple distributed players. At each time, each player chooses one of… 
2006
2006
Anytime algorithms for multi-armed bandit problems
How should a decision-maker perform repeated choices so as to optimize the average cost or benefit of those choices in the long… 
2005
2005
Information technology project failures: Applying the bandit problem to evaluate managerial decision making
Purpose – This paper seeks to apply results from the study of bandit processes to cases of information technology (IT) project… 
1998
1998
a 5 Subunit Alters Desensitization , Pharmacology , Ca 11 Permeability and Ca 11 Modulation of Human Neuronal a 3 Nicotinic Receptors 1
Functional effects of human a5 nicotinic ACh receptor (AChR) subunits coassembled with a3 and b2 or with a3 and b4 subunits, were… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Association of Intercellular Adhesion Moleculeq (ICAM-1) with Actin-containing Cytoskeleton and -actinin
We have studied the cytoskeletal association of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1, CD54), an integral membrane protein… 
1983
1983
Extension of the multi-armed bandit problem
There are N independent machines. Machine i is described by a sequence {Xi(s), Fi(s)} where xi(s) is the immediate reward and Fi… 
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