Bandit Algorithms
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Bandit Algorithms
Author: Tor Lattimore
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2020-07-16
A comprehensive and rigorous introduction for graduate students and researchers, with applications in sequential decision-making problems.
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