On Confidence Sequences for Bounded Random Processes via Universal Gambling Strategies
arXiv (Cornell University)(2022)
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of constructing a confidence sequence for bounded random processes. Building upon the gambling approach pioneered by Hendriks (2018) and Jun and Orabona (2019) and following the recent work of Waudby-Smith and Ramdas (2020) and Orabona and Jun (2021), this paper revisits the idea of Cover (1991)'s universal portfolio in constructing confidence sequences and demonstrates new properties, based on a natural \emph{two-horse race} perspective on the gambling approach. The main result of this paper is a new algorithm based on a mixture of lower bounds, which closely approximates the performance of Cover's universal portfolio with only constant per-round time complexity. A higher-order generalization of a lower bound in (Fan et al, 2015), which is invoked in the proposed algorithm, may be of independent interest.
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Key words
gambling strategies,confidence sequences,bounded random processes
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