Memory--Batch Tradeoffs in Lipschitz Bandits
Lipschitz bandits admit near-optimal regret $\widetilde O_d(T^{(d+1)/(d+2)})$ with little memory under full adaptivity, or with few batches under unrestricted memory. We characterize the minimax expected pseudo-regret over $T$ rounds with $W$ bits of memory and at most $B$ batches in dimension $d$. For every memory budget $W$, we prove a lower bound of order $T^{\frac{d+2}{d+3}} (1+(B-1)W)^{-\frac{1}{d(d+3)}}$. When $W\gtrsim_d\log(eT)$, algorithms with fixed batch boundaries attain, up to logarithmic factors, the larger of this bound and the optimal $B$-batch regret with unrestricted memory. The analysis separates fine-scale comparisons from the regional information needed to allocate th...
| Authors | Zicheng Lyu, Zengfeng Huang |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 8 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 September 2026 |
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