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most citedParallel Best Arm Identification in Heterogeneous Environments

6 citations · 12 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2023

Communication-Efficient Collaborative Regret Minimization in Multi-Armed Bandits

Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang

In this paper, we study the collaborative learning model, which concerns the tradeoff between parallelism and communication overhead in multi-agent multi-armed bandits. For regret…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Communication-Efficient Collaborative Best Arm Identification

Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang

We investigate top- arm identification, a basic problem in bandit theory, in a multi-agent learning model in which agents collaborate to learn an objective function. We are inte…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Parallel Best Arm Identification in Heterogeneous Environments

Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang

In this paper, we study the tradeoffs between the time and the number of communication rounds of the best arm identification problem in the heterogeneous collaborative learning mod…

cs.LG2021

Batched Thompson Sampling for Multi-Armed Bandits

Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang

We study Thompson Sampling algorithms for stochastic multi-armed bandits in the batched setting, in which we want to minimize the regret over a sequence of arm pulls using a small…

cs.LG2020

Instance-Sensitive Algorithms for Pure Exploration in Multinomial Logit Bandit

Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang

Motivated by real-world applications such as fast fashion retailing and online advertising, the Multinomial Logit Bandit (MNL-bandit) is a popular model in online learning and oper…

cs.DS2020★ 4 cited

Collaborative Top Distribution Identifications with Limited Interaction

Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang, Yuan Zhou

We consider the following problem in this paper: given a set of distributions, find the top- ones with the largest means. This problem is also called {\em top- arm identi…

cs.DS2019

Distributed and Streaming Linear Programming in Low Dimensions

Sepehr Assadi, Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang

We study linear programming and general LP-type problems in several big data (streaming and distributed) models. We mainly focus on low dimensional problems in which the number of…

cs.DS2017★ 1 cited

Parameterized Algorithms for Partitioning Graphs into Highly Connected Clusters

Ivan Bliznets, Nikolai Karpov

Clustering is a well-known and important problem with numerous applications. The graph-based model is one of the typical cluster models. In the graph model, clusters are generally…

cs.DS2017

An exponential lower bound for cut sparsifiers in planar graphs

Nikolai Karpov, Marcin Pilipczuk, Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

Given an edge-weighted graph with a set of terminals, a mimicking network is a graph with the same set of terminals that exactly preserves the sizes of minimum cuts bet…

cs.DS2015

Parameterized Complexity of Superstring Problems

Ivan Bliznets, Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach +3

In the Shortest Superstring problem we are given a set of strings and integer and the question is to decide whether there is a superstring of le…

cs.DS2015

Parameterized Complexity of Secluded Connectivity Problems

Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach, Nikolay Karpov +1

The Secluded Path problem models a situation where a sensitive information has to be transmitted between a pair of nodes along a path in a network. The measure of the quality of a…