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MAB-OS: Multi-Armed Bandits Metaheuristic Optimizer Selection

open access: yes, 2022
Metaheuristic algorithms are derivative-free optimizers designed to estimate the global optima for optimization problems. Keeping balance between exploitation and exploration and the performance complementarity between the algorithms have led to the ...
Meidani, Kazem   +5 more
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Multi-Armed Bandits in Brain-Computer Interfaces

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
The multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem models a decision-maker that optimizes its actions based on current and acquired new knowledge to maximize its reward.
Frida Heskebeck   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

AlegAATr the Bandit

open access: yes, 2023
One design strategy for developing intelligent agents is to create N distinct behaviors, each of which works effectively in particular tasks and circumstances. At each time step during task execution, the agent, or bandit, chooses which of the N behaviors to use.
Ethan Pedersen, Jacob W. Crandall
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Replicable Bandits

open access: yes, 2022
In this paper, we introduce the notion of replicable policies in the context of stochastic bandits, one of the canonical problems in interactive learning. A policy in the bandit environment is called replicable if it pulls, with high probability, the exact same sequence of arms in two different and independent executions (i.e., under independent reward
Hossein Esfandiari   +5 more
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Bandits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This is a review of Bandits (2001)
Plate, S. Brent
core   +1 more source

THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE POLITICISATION OF INTERNAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA

open access: yesAyika, 2022
Nigeria, a microcosm of the African continent is a very complex country. With over 250 ethnic nationalities and several religious sects who strive to always work in outdoing each other in the polity, the country is a breeding ground for security breaches.
James Chukwuemeka Mbah   +1 more
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Armed Banditry and Challenges of National Development : Is Nigeria’s Governance System Failing?

open access: yesInstitutiones Administrationis
The incessant bandits’ activities vis-à-vis kidnapping of people for ransom, robbing them of their possessions, raping and even killing them at will by groups of people officially described as bandits in parts of Nigeria is worrisome.
Adeleke Adegbami, Oluwaseun Kugbayi
doaj   +1 more source

Sur les traces de Virgolino, un cangaceiro dit Lampião

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2001
The famous Brazilian bandits known as cancageiros were considered in turn as infrarevolutionaries, social bandits, honorable bandits and, more recently, as the mere armed hands of local potentates. Numerous works deal with the life of Lampião, the leader
Patricia Sampaio Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Signal detection models as contextual bandits

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2023
Signal detection theory (SDT) has been widely applied to identify the optimal discriminative decisions of receivers under uncertainty. However, the approach assumes that decision-makers immediately adopt the appropriate acceptance threshold, even though ...
Thomas N. Sherratt, Erica O'Neill
doaj   +1 more source

Forest, Bandits, and State: Some Measures Taken against the Use of Forests as Illegal Activity Areas in the Ottoman Empire (16th-18th centuries)

open access: yesTarih Dergisi
The territories of the Ottoman Empire included extensive forested areas. These forests provided a rich source of timber and other materials essential for the maintenance of the empire's military establishments, including the Imperial Arsenal, the ...
Yusuf Alperen Aydın
doaj   +1 more source

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