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a bandit strategy that picks the arm with the highest optimistic estimate, adding a bonus for arms tried less often.

In operations research, upper confidence bound refers to a bandit strategy that picks the arm with the highest optimistic estimate, adding a bonus for arms tried less often. This meaning comes from Auer (2002) in Machine Learning.[1]

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References

Auer, P., Cesa-Bianchi, N., & Fischer, P. (2002). Finite-time Analysis of the Multiarmed Bandit Problem. Machine Learning, 47(2-3), 235-256. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1013689704352

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