Abstract
In this paper we consider stochastic multiarmed bandit problems. Recently a policy, DMED, is proposed and proved to achieve the asymptotic bound for the model that each reward distribution is supported in a known bounded interval, e.g. [0,1]. However, the derived regret bound is described in an asymptotic form and the performance in finite time has been unknown. We inspect this policy and derive a finite-time regret bound by refining large deviation probabilities to a simple finite form. Further, this observation reveals that the assumption on the lower-boundedness of the support is not essential and can be replaced with a weaker one, the existence of the moment generating function.
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