This paper is in press in Journal of Machine Learning Research (January 2026). A preprint can be found here. The code was successfully run in Python (fixed-budget-code/) and Julia (fixed-conf-anytime-code/), which respectively report the corresponding dependencies and installation instructions. To cite the paper, please use:
@article{jourdan2026anytime,
title={An anytime algorithm for good arm identification},
author={Jourdan, Marc, Delahaye-Duriez, Andr{\'e}e and R{\'e}da, Cl{\'e}mence},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10359},
year={2026}
}
The data corresponding to the real-life instance can be found in this paper in Table 1. The corresponding scores are also located in fixed-budget-code/assets/scores_all_runs_sorted.csv.