Abbas Kazerouni

2 accepted papers

2021

Multi-Armed Bandits with Cost Subsidy

Deeksha Sinha, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman, Abbas Kazerouni, Vashist Avadhanula

AISTATS 2021poster

In this paper, we consider a novel variant of the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, MAB with cost subsidy, which models many real-life applications where the learning agent has to pay to select an arm and is concerned about optimizing cumulative costs and rewards. We present two applications, intell…

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2017

Conservative Contextual Linear Bandits

Abbas Kazerouni, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Yasin Abbasi Yadkori, Benjamin Van Roy

NeurIPS 2017poster

Safety is a desirable property that can immensely increase the applicability of learning algorithms in real-world decision-making problems. It is much easier for a company to deploy an algorithm that is safe, i.e., guaranteed to perform at least as well as a baseline. In this paper, we study the iss…

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