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Instance Dependent Regret Analysis of Kernelized Bandits

Shubhanshu Shekhar, Tara Javidi

Abstract

We study the problem of designing an adaptive strategy for querying a noisy zeroth-order-oracle to efficiently learn about the optimizer of an unknown function $f$. To make the problem tractable, we assume that $f$ lies in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) associated with a known kernel $K$, with its norm bounded by $M<\infty$. Prior results, working in a

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v162-shekhar22a,
  title = 	 {Instance Dependent Regret Analysis of Kernelized Bandits},
  author =       {Shekhar, Shubhanshu and Javidi, Tara},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {19747--19772},
  year = 	 {2022},
  editor = 	 {Chaudhuri, Kamalika and Jegelka, Stefanie and Song, Le and Szepesvari, Csaba and Niu, Gang and Sabato, Sivan},
  volume = 	 {162},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {17--23 Jul},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/shekhar22a/shekhar22a.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/shekhar22a.html},
  abstract = 	 {We study the problem of designing an adaptive strategy for querying a noisy zeroth-order-oracle to efficiently learn about the optimizer of an unknown function $f$. To make the problem tractable, we assume that $f$ lies in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) associated with a known kernel $K$, with its norm bounded by $M<\infty$. Prior results, working in a