Assaf Zeevi: Multi-armed bandits: Recent developments (Part II)

Abstract:
The second part will concentrate on recent developments in MAB and the application domains that have motivated these studies. The main focus will be on MAB with contextual information, extensions of MAB to continuous action spaces, and new paradigms for restless MAB's. The exposition will cover models, some theory, and indicate application areas, including revenue management (dynamic pricing), dynamic assortment problems, online advertising, and dynamic referral systems.