In this paper, we propose a new multi-objective contextual multi-armed bandit problem with two objectives, where one of the objectives dominates the other objective. Unlike single-objective bandit problems in which the learner obtains a random scalar reward for each arm it selects, in the proposed problem, the learner obtains a random reward vector, where each component of the reward vector corresponds to one of the objectives and the distribution of the reward depends on the context that is provided to the learner at the beginning of each round. We call this problem contextual multi-armed bandit with a dominant objective (CMAB-DO). In CMAB-DO, the goal of the learner is to maximize its total reward in the non-dominant objective while ensuring that it maximizes its total reward in the dominant objective. In this case, the optimal arm given a context is the one that maximizes the expected reward in the non-dominant objective among all arms that maximize the expected reward in the dominant objective. First, we show that the optimal arm lies in the Pareto front. Then, we propose the multi-objective contextual multi-armed bandit algorithm (MOC-MAB), and define two performance measures: the 2-dimensional (2D) regret and the Pareto regret. We show that both the 2D regret and the Pareto regret of MOC-MAB are sublinear in the number of rounds. We also compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with other state-of-the-art methods in synthetic and real-world datasets. The proposed model and the algorithm have a wide range of real-world applications that involve multiple and possibly conflicting objectives ranging from wireless communication to medical diagnosis and recommender systems.

本文提出了一种新的具有两个目标的多目标情境多臂赌博问题，并通过引入奖励向量及其依赖于上下文的分配来解决问题；提出了基于 Pareto 的指标的 MOC-MAB 算法，证明了其对于二维和 Pareto 的悔恨度都是次线性的，并在合成和实际数据集上与其他最先进的方法进行了比较。

带有主导目标的多目标上下文多臂赌博机