Towards Optimal Algorithms for Multi-Player Bandits without Collision Sensing Information

03/24/2021

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by   Wei Huang, et al.

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We propose a novel algorithm for multi-player multi-armed bandits without collision sensing information. Our algorithm circumvents two problems shared by all state-of-the-art algorithms: it does not need as an input a lower bound on the minimal expected reward of an arm, and its performance does not scale inversely proportionally to the minimal expected reward. We prove a theoretical regret upper bound to justify these claims. We complement our theoretical results with numerical experiments, showing that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art in practice as well.