Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Batched Neural Bandits   In many sequential decision-making problems, the individuals are split into
several batches and the decision-maker is only allowed to change her policy at
the end of batches. These batch problems have a large number of applications,
ranging from clinical trials to crowdsourcing. Motivated by this, we study the
stochastic contextual bandit problem for general reward distributions under the
batched setting. We propose the BatchNeuralUCB algorithm which combines neural
networks with optimism to address the exploration-exploitation tradeoff while
keeping the total number of batches limited. We study BatchNeuralUCB under both
fixed and adaptive batch size settings and prove that it achieves the same
regret as the fully sequential version while reducing the number of policy
updates considerably. We confirm our theoretical results via simulations on
both synthetic and real-world datasets.

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