arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-17
Information-Directed Sampling for Causal Bandits
Muhammad Qasim Elahi, Murat Kocaoglu, Mahsa Ghasemi
Causal bandits exploit structural relationships among variables to share information across interventions and accelerate the identification of high-reward decisions. In many applications, however, some variables cannot be directly manipulated, even though they influence the rewar…