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Anonymous Bandits for Multi-User Systems
Hossein Esfandiari · Vahab Mirrokni · Jon Schneider

Wed Nov 30 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #718
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In this work, we present and study a new framework for online learning in systems with multiple users that provide user anonymity. Specifically, we extend the notion of bandits to obey the standard $k$-anonymity constraint by requiring each observation to be an aggregation of rewards for at least $k$ users. This provides a simple yet effective framework where one can learn a clustering of users in an online fashion without observing any user's individual decision. We initiate the study of anonymous bandits and provide the first sublinear regret algorithms and lower bounds for this setting.
Keywords: Online Learning · Multi-armed Bandits · anonymity
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Hossein Esfandiari (Google Research)
Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Jon Schneider (Google)

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