2 papers
math.ST2025
The Adaptivity Barrier in Batched Nonparametric Bandits: Sharp Characterization of the Price of Unknown Margin
Rong Jiang, Cong Ma
We study batched nonparametric contextual bandits under a margin condition when the margin parameter is unknown. To capture the statistical cost of this ignorance, we introduc…
math.ST2025
Batched Nonparametric Contextual Bandits
Rong Jiang, Cong Ma
We study nonparametric contextual bandits under batch constraints, where the expected reward for each action is modeled as a smooth function of covariates, and the policy updates a…