# Multidimensional Binary Search for Contextual Decision-Making

2 Nov 2016  ·  , , ·

We consider a multidimensional search problem that is motivated by questions in contextual decision-making, such as dynamic pricing and personalized medicine. Nature selects a state from a $d$-dimensional unit ball and then generates a sequence of $d$-dimensional directions. We are given access to the directions, but not access to the state. After receiving a direction, we have to guess the value of the dot product between the state and the direction. Our goal is to minimize the number of times when our guess is more than $\epsilon$ away from the true answer. We construct a polynomial time algorithm that we call Projected Volume achieving regret $O(d\log(d/\epsilon))$, which is optimal up to a $\log d$ factor. The algorithm combines a volume cutting strategy with a new geometric technique that we call cylindrification.

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