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Optimal Learning for Sequential Decisions in Laboratory Experimentation
Kristopher Reyes, Warren B Powell
The process of discovery in the physical, biological and medical sciences can be painstakingly slow. Most experiments fail, and the time from initiation of research until a new adv…
On State Variables, Bandit Problems and POMDPs
Warren B Powell
State variables are easily the most subtle dimension of sequential decision problems. This is especially true in the context of active learning problems (bandit problems") where de…
MOLTE: a Modular Optimal Learning Testing Environment
Yingfei Wang, Warren Powell
We address the relative paucity of empirical testing of learning algorithms (of any type) by introducing a new public-domain, Modular, Optimal Learning Testing Environment (MOLTE)…
Finite-time Analysis for the Knowledge-Gradient Policy
Yingfei Wang, Warren Powell
We consider sequential decision problems in which we adaptively choose one of finitely many alternatives and observe a stochastic reward. We offer a new perspective of interpreting…