We consider the stochastic bandit problem in the sublinear space setting, where one cannot record the win-loss record for all arms. We give an algorithm using words of space with regret \[ \sum_{i=1}^{K}\frac{1}{\Delta_i}\log \frac{\Delta_i}{\Delta}\log T \] where is the gap between the best arm and arm and is the gap between the best and the second-best arms. If the rewards are bounded away from and , this is within an factor of the optimum regret possible without space constraints.
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