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Causal Bandits: Learning Good Interventions via Causal Inference

NeurIPS 2016 · Bandits and online learning › Contextual bandits and Thompson sampling · approach: Causal and structured bandits · 71 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use causal-graph feedback (observe non-intervened variables) instead of ignoring itparallel bandit algorithm vs Successive Reject · simulated parallel bandit, N=50, T=400, small msimple regretHelped
increase m(q) toward N (causal algorithms vs Successive Reject)causal bandit algorithms · simulated parallel bandit, N=50, T=400simple regretHurt
use regression estimator (parallel algorithm) instead of truncated importance weighted estimator (general algorithm) (ablation)causal bandit algorithms · simulated parallel banditsimple regretHelped
remove truncation of importance weights (larger B_a) (ablation)general causal bandit algorithm · simulated parallel banditsimple regretHelped

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