Learning with Abandonment

Authors: Sven Schmit, Ramesh Johari

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental In Section 3.3, titled Simulations, the paper presents 'Cumulative regret plots' and states 'We observe that KL-UCB indeed performs better than the standard UCB algorithm.' It also states 'Code to replicate the simulations is available at https://github.com/schmit/learning-abandonment.'
Researcher Affiliation Academia Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 2Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Pseudocode No The paper describes algorithms and strategies in text but does not include any formal pseudocode blocks or clearly labeled algorithm sections.
Open Source Code Yes Code to replicate the simulations is available at https://github.com/schmit/learning-abandonment.
Open Datasets No The paper uses a simulated setting where 'the threshold distribution (unknown to the learning algorithm) is uniform on [0, 1]'. There is no traditional dataset provided with a URL, DOI, or repository, as the data is generated within the simulation based on this specified distribution.
Dataset Splits No The paper describes a simulation setup ('n = 2000 time steps', '50 repetitions') but does not specify traditional training, validation, or test dataset splits, as it operates within a sequential learning simulation environment rather than on a static dataset.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not specify any hardware used for running the simulations (e.g., CPU, GPU models, or cloud computing instances).
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific software dependencies with version numbers (e.g., Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow versions).
Experiment Setup Yes For the discretized policies, we set K ∼ 2(n/ log n)^1/4 = 10. The explore-exploit strategy first observes 20 + 2 √ n = 110 samples to estimate F, before committing to a fixed strategy.