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Exploration via Feature Perturbation in Contextual Bandits
Authors: Seouh-won Yi, Min-hwan Oh
NeurIPS 2025 | Venue PDF | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Experimental | We conduct experiments in two contextual bandit settings: (i) generalized linear bandits (GLBs), including linear and logistic models, and (ii) nonlinear contextual bandits based on neural networks. In each setting, we compare the proposed method with state-of-the-art baselines across varying feature dimensions and datasets. All results are averaged over 100 independent runs to ensure robustness. Detailed experimental setups are provided in Appendix H. |
| Researcher Affiliation | Academia | Seouh-won Yi Seoul National University EMAIL Min-hwan Oh Seoul National University EMAIL |
| Pseudocode | Yes | Algorithm 1 GLM-FP: Feature Perturbation in Generalized Linear Bandits |
| Open Source Code | Yes | We have included the code in the supplementary material. |
| Open Datasets | Yes | We evaluate Deep FP on three UCI benchmark datasets: shuttle (7 classes, 9 features), isolet (26 classes, 617 features), and mushroom (binary, 112 features). |
| Dataset Splits | Yes | We consider a time-varying set of K = 100 arms per round over a horizon of T = 20,000 (linear) or T = 10,000 (logistic). Context vectors and the true parameter vector θ are sampled from a standard multivariate Gaussian distribution and normalized to satisfy the boundedness assumption. In the logistic case, we use the sigmoid link function µ(x) = 1/(1 + e x) and constrain θ 4 so that the logits lie in [ 4, 4]. For the linear bandit, the reward noise is sampled from N(0, 1). |
| Hardware Specification | Yes | All GLB runs were performed on a standard CPU server equipped with an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R processor (40 threads), with each run completing within a few minutes. The neural bandit experiments were conducted using a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU. |
| Software Dependencies | No | The paper mentions 'Adam optimizer' but does not specify any version numbers for software libraries, frameworks, or languages required to replicate the experiment. |
| Experiment Setup | Yes | The confidence level is set as δ = 1/T, and the regularization parameter is fixed at λ = 10^-4. |