arXiv:2505.20010cs.LG2025-05NeurIPS被引 3

为约束型强化学习设计了依赖数据的更优后悔界。

Data-Dependent Regret Bounds for Constrained MABs

  • 提出新算法,后悔界由约束难度和学习复杂度两项数据相关项构成。
  • 在最坏情况下仍保持经典 $ ilde{ m O}( oot{2}{T})$ 上界,但实际中显著更小。
  • 适用于硬约束场景,适合研究在线优化与自适应决策的学者。

本文首次研究约束型多臂赌博机(Constrained MAB)中的数据依赖后悔界。这类边界依赖于刻画问题实例的损失序列,因此在实际中可远小于经典的 $ ilde{ m O}( oot{2}{T})$ 上界,同时在最坏情况下仍等价于该上界。尽管如此,数据依赖后悔界在约束型MAB中一直被忽视。本文回答了核心问题:在存在约束时能否获得数据依赖后悔界?答案是肯定的。针对对抗性损失与随机约束的设定,特别是最难且最自然的硬约束情形——要求约束始终以高概率满足——本文设计了一种新算法,其后悔界包含两项数据依赖项:第一项反映约束满足的难度,第二项刻画独立于约束的学习复杂度。我们还证明了下界,表明这两项并非分析技巧所致,而是问题本质复杂性的根本组成部分。此外,在算法设计过程中,还得到了软约束情形下的若干新结果,可能具有独立研究价值。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper initiates the study of data-dependent regret bounds in constrained MAB settings. These bounds depend on the sequence of losses that characterize the problem instance. Thus, they can be much smaller than classical $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{T})$ regret bounds, while being equivalent to them in the worst case. Despite this, data-dependent regret bounds have been completely overlooked in constrained MAB settings. The goal of this paper is to answer the following question: Can data-dependent regret bounds be derived in the presence of constraints? We answer this question affirmatively in constrained MABs with adversarial losses and stochastic constraints. Specifically, our main focus is on the most challenging and natural settings with hard constraints, where the learner must ensure that the constraints are always satisfied with high probability. We design an algorithm with a regret bound consisting of two data-dependent terms. The first term captures the difficulty of satisfying the constraints, while the second one encodes the complexity of learning independently of the presence of constraints. We also prove a lower bound showing that these two terms are not artifacts of our specific approach and analysis, but rather the fundamental components that inherently characterize the complexities of the problem. Finally, in designing our algorithm, we also derive some novel results in the related (and easier) soft constraints settings, which may be of independent interest.

强化学习多臂赌博机后悔界约束优化

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