AExGym: Benchmarks and Environments for Adaptive Experimentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04531v1
• Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 15:32:12 GMT
• Title: AExGym: Benchmarks and Environments for Adaptive Experimentation
• Authors: Jimmy Wang, Ethan Che, Daniel R. Jiang, Hongseok Namkoong,
• Abstract summary: We present a benchmark for adaptive experimentation based on real-world datasets. We highlight prominent practical challenges to operationalizing adaptivity: non-stationarity, batched/delayed feedback, multiple outcomes and objectives, and external validity.
• Score: 7.948144726705323
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Innovations across science and industry are evaluated using randomized trials (a.k.a. A/B tests). While simple and robust, such static designs are inefficient or infeasible for testing many hypotheses. Adaptive designs can greatly improve statistical power in theory, but they have seen limited adoption due to their fragility in practice. We present a benchmark for adaptive experimentation based on real-world datasets, highlighting prominent practical challenges to operationalizing adaptivity: non-stationarity, batched/delayed feedback, multiple outcomes and objectives, and external validity. Our benchmark aims to spur methodological development that puts practical performance (e.g., robustness) as a central concern, rather than mathematical guarantees on contrived instances. We release an open source library, AExGym, which is designed with modularity and extensibility in mind to allow experimentation practitioners to develop custom environments and algorithms.

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