Bandits 101: A Maximally Non-technical Tutorial

Nov 1, 2024 · 1 min read
seminars

Event

OSI Lab Seminar Series

Short summary

In this (rather sudden) seminar, I will give a maximally non-technical tutorial on bandits, with emphasis on diferent variants and their motivations. This is based on an invited tutorial that I gave at Hyperconnect.

Abstract

Here is the table of contents:

  • What is a Bandit?
  • Types/Variants of Bandits, with practical motivation (no regret analysis, no algorithm explanations)
  • Overview of Bandit Algorithms
  • Offline Contextual Bandit 101
Junghyun Lee
Authors
Junghyun Lee
PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence
PhD candidate at KAIST AI, jointly advised by Se-Young Yun and Chulhee Yun. I work on interactive machine learning, theoretical aspects of LLMs, learning/optimization theory, and statistical analysis of large networks.