Oral
Warm-starting Contextual Bandits: Robustly Combining Supervised and Bandit Feedback
Chicheng Zhang · Alekh Agarwal · Hal Daume · John Langford · Sahand Negahban

Thu Jun 13th 04:20 -- 04:25 PM @ Hall B
in Bandits and Multiagent Learning »

We investigate the feasibility of learning from both fully-labeled supervised data and contextual bandit data. We specifically consider settings in which the underlying learning signal may be different between these two data sources. Theoretically, we state and prove no-regret algorithms for learning that is robust to divergences between the two sources. Empirically, we evaluate some of these algorithms on a large selection of datasets, showing that our approaches are feasible, and helpful in practice.

Author Information

Chicheng Zhang (Microsoft Research)
Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research)
Hal Daume (Microsoft Research)
John Langford (Microsoft Research)
Sahand Negahban (YALE)

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