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Statistical and Computational Trade-off in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits

Neural Information Processing Systems

We study the problem of regret minimization in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits (MAMABs) where the rewards are defined through a factor graph. We derive an instance-specific regret lower bound and characterize the minimal expected number of times each global action should be explored. This bound and the corresponding optimal exploration process are obtained by solving a combinatorial optimization problem whose set of variables and constraints exponentially grow with the number of agents, and cannot be exploited in the design of efficient algorithms. Inspired by Mean Field approximation techniques used in graphical models, we provide simple upper bounds of the regret lower bound. The corresponding optimization problems have a reduced number of variables and constraints. By tuning the latter, we may explore the trade-off between the achievable regret and the complexity of computing the corresponding exploration process. We devise Efficient Sampling for MAMAB (ESM), an algorithm whose regret asymptotically matches the approximated lower bounds. The regret and computational complexity of ESM are assessed numerically, using both synthetic and real-world experiments in radio communications networks.



Double Randomized Underdamped Langevin with Dimension-Independent Convergence Guarantee

Neural Information Processing Systems

This paper focuses on the high-dimensional sampling of log-concave distributions with composite structures: p (dx) exp( g(x) f(x))dx. We develop a double randomization technique, which leads to a fast underdamped Langevin algorithm with a dimension-independent convergence guarantee.



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Popular Science

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Scenario Diffusion: Controllable Driving Scenario Generation With Diffusion

Neural Information Processing Systems

Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that enables controllable scenario generation. We combine latent diffusion, object detection and trajectory regression to generate distributions of synthetic agent poses, orientations and trajectories simultaneously. To provide additional control over the generated scenario, this distribution is conditioned on a map and sets of tokens describing the desired scenario. We show that our approach has sufficient expressive capacity to model diverse traffic patterns and generalizes to different geographical regions.