A Comparative Study of Bayesian Contextual Bandits for Real-Time Warehouse Sorter Optimization

arXiv:2606.23977 · cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-06-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-06-22

Updated: 2026-06-22

Comments: Accepted at 2026 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (IEEE ICMA 2026)

Journal ref: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), Changchun, Jilin, China, 2026, pp. 1556-1562

DOI: 10.1109/ICMA69663.2026.11647405

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Contextual Bandits — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Optimization — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Contextual Bandits — 6× in this paper
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reward Function — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Objective Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sample Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Acquisition Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Curse of Dimensionality — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Online Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Operations Research — 1× in this paper
• Root Mean Squared Error — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Context in Public Health for Underserved Communities: A Bayesian Approach to Online Restless Bandits
• Bayesian Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

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