BOTS: Batch Bayesian Optimization of Extended Thompson Sampling for Severely Episode-Limited RL Settings

This repository contains the official implementation for BOTS, from the paper: BOTS: Batch Bayesian Optimization of Extended Thompson Sampling for Severely Episode-Limited RL Settings, Karine Karine and Benjamin M. Marlin, 2024.

This paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty 2024.

• arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.00308

• paper link: https://github.com/reml-lab/bots/tree/main/BOTS_paper.pdf

• poster link: https://github.com/reml-lab/bots/tree/main/BOTS_poster.pdf

Examples

See the examples directory for a list of examples that can be run locally or launched in Google Colab.

For example:

• BOTS QuickStart

Citing this paper

@inproceedings{BOTS2024, 
title = {BOTS: Batch Bayesian Optimization of Extended Thompson Sampling for Severely Episode-Limited RL Settings},
author={Karine Karine and Benjamin M. Marlin},
booktitle = {NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty,
year = {2024},
}