AI RESEARCH

Logistic Bandits with $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{dT})$ Regret without Context Diversity Assumptions

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2604.22161v1 Announce Type: new We study the $K$-armed logistic bandit problem, where at each round, the agent observes $K$ feature vectors associated with $K$ actions. Existing approaches that achieve a rate-optimal $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{dT})$ regret bound rely heavily on context diversity assumptions, such as strict positivity of the minimum eigenvalue of a context covariance matrix. These assumptions, however, impose strong restrictions on the context process, as they rule out the situation where the context vectors are concentrated in a low-dimensional subspace.