README.md

Multi-armed bandit problems

This project provides a simulation of multi-armed bandit problems.

This implementation is based on the below paper. Simple Modification of the Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm by Generalized Weighted Averages (https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14350).

Requirements

Compatible with Python3.6 and above. The required libraries are listed below.

• NumPy
• matplotlib
• scikit-optimize

Installation

$ pip install numpy
$ pip install matplotlib

Quickstart StochasticMAB

$ python compare_stochastic_mab.py

The results are displayed as below.

For more information, compare_stochastic_mab.py.

Quickstart SurvivalMAB

$ python compare_survival_mab.py

The results are displayed as below.

For more information, compare_survival_mab.py.

Experiments in the paper

The three experiments described in the paper can be executed with the following commands.

$ python experiment1.py

$ python experiment2.py

$ python experiment3.py

License

This is free and open-source software licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.