Safety by Design: Realized-Cost Constraints for Contextual Bandits with Continuous Actions
Contextual bandits are a standard framework for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in clinical trials, dosage selection, recommendation systems, and autonomous systems. Safety is central in many of these applications, since a single unsafe decision in settings such as dosage selection or autonomous driving can have catastrophic consequences. A common way to model safety in bandit problems is to associate each action with both a reward signal and a cost signal, and to optimize reward subject to constraints on cost. Most existing safety-constrained bandit models enforce safety by requiring the expected cost of each action to remain below a prescribed threshold. ...
| Authors | Spyros Dragazis, Aldo Pacchiano |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 27 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 27 August 2026 |
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