Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
A Possibilistic Reward Method for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
Año:2017

Áreas de investigación
  • Sistemas estocásticos y control,
  • Comunicación, información,
  • Procesos estocásticos

Datos
Descripción
Different allocation strategies can be found in the literature to deal with the multi-armed bandit problem under a frequentist view or from a Bayesian perspective. In this paper, we propose a novel allocation strategy, the possibilistic reward method. First, possibilistic reward distributions are used to model the uncertainty about the arm expected rewards, which are then converted into probability distributions using a pignistic probability transformation. Finally, a simulation experiment is carried out to find out the one with the highest expected reward, which is then pulled. A parametric probability transformation of the proposed is then introduced together with a dynamic optimization, which implies that neither previous knowledge nor a simulation of the arm distributions is required. A numerical study proves that the proposed method outperforms other policies in the literature in five scenarios: a Bernoulli distribution with very low success probabilities, with success probabilities close to 0.5 and with success probabilities close to 0.5 and Gaussian rewards; and truncated in [0,10] Poisson and exponential distributions.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Oporto, Portugal
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-989-758-218-9
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
23/02/2017
Fecha fin congreso
25/02/2017
Desde la página
75
Hasta la página
84
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems

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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de análisis de decisiones y estadística
  • Departamento: Inteligencia Artificial