Poster
Pure Exploration and Regret Minimization in Matching Bandits
Flore Sentenac · Jialin Yi · Clément Calauzènes · Vianney Perchet · Milan Vojnovic
Keywords: [ Reinforcement Learning and Planning ] [ Bandits ]
Finding an optimal matching in a weighted graph is a standard combinatorial problem. We consider its semi-bandit version where either a pair or a full matching is sampled sequentially. We prove that it is possible to leverage a rank-1 assumption on the adjacency matrix to reduce the sample complexity and the regret of off-the-shelf algorithms up to reaching a linear dependency in the number of vertices (up to to poly-log terms).