Optimism as a Vulnerability: Deceptive Stackelberg Control of UCB Bandit Followers

Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Kerem Yalçın, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş

Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithms guarantee sublinear regret for agents learning unknown stochastic environments, yet the same principle that makes them statistically efficie…