cs.LGAug 15, 2026

Lipschitz Bandits with Arbitrary Feedback Delays

Authors: Yuhao Liu, Yu Chen, Longbo Huang

Organizations: Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

Abstract

The Lipschitz bandit problem extends the traditional multi-armed bandit framework to continuous action spaces by assuming that the reward functions satisfy a Lipschitz condition. This work investigates Lipschitz bandits under arbitrary feedback delays, where reward signals are not received immediately upon taking an action but after an arbitrarily chosen delay. We consider both stochastic and adversarial reward settings, proposing an elimination-based algorithm and an EXP3-based algorithm, respectively. For both settings, our algorithms achieve a regret bound of O~(Tdz+1dz+2+D)\tilde{O}\left(T^{\frac{d_z+1}{d_z+2}}+\sqrt{D}\right) over a time horizon TT with total delay DD, where the main difference between settings lies in the definition of the zooming dimension dzd_z. Our bounds match existing delay-free regret guarantees for Lipschitz bandits and characterize the additional O~(D)\tilde{O}(\sqrt{D}) impact introduced by feedback delays.

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