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Poster

Towards Domain Adaptive Neural Contextual Bandits

Ziyan Wang · Xiaoming Huo · Hao Wang

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #582
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Wed 23 Apr 7 p.m. PDT — 9:30 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

Contextual bandit algorithms are essential for solving real-world decision making problems. In practice, collecting a contextual bandit's feedback from different domains may involve different costs. For example, measuring drug reaction from mice (as a source domain) and humans (as a target domain). Unfortunately, adapting a contextual bandit algorithm from a source domain to a target domain with distribution shift still remains a major challenge and largely unexplored. In this paper, we introduce the first general domain adaptation method for contextual bandits. Our approach learns a bandit model for the target domain by collecting feedback from the source domain. Our theoretical analysis shows that our algorithm maintains a sub-linear regret bound even adapting across domains. Empirical results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art contextual bandit algorithms on real-world datasets. Code will soon be available at https://github.com/Wang-ML-Lab/DABand.

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