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UCB suboptimal-arm good event (Eqs. 7.6–7.10)

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BanditAlgorithm.ucb_suboptimal_arm_good_event

by allychan327 · Jul 18, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

bandit-algorithmsprobability

For UCB with confidence level δ=1/n2\delta=1/n^2δ=1/n2 on a finite 1-subgaussian stochastic bandit and a suboptimal arm iii, let u=⌈16log⁡(n)/Δi2⌉u=\lceil16\log(n)/\Delta_i^2\rceilu=⌈16log(n)/Δi2​⌉. There is a measurable good event on which Ti(n)≤uT_i(n)\le uTi​(n)≤u, while the complement has probability at most 1/n+1/n21/n+1/n^21/n+1/n2. This is the good-event and concentration core of Eqs. (7.6)–(7.10), including the n=1n=1n=1 boundary.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_banditRegret
import Definitions.Def_ucbPolicy

open MeasureTheory ProbabilityTheory
Formal statement
namespace BanditAlgorithm

/-!
Source: Lattimore--Szepesvári, *Bandit Algorithms* (CUP 2020), proof of
Theorem 7.1, printed pp. 106--108 (PDF pp. 115--117), Eqs. (7.6)--(7.10).

This isolates the substantive good-event step in the UCB pull-count proof at
`δ = 1 / n²` and `c = 1/2`.  On the good event the suboptimal arm is pulled at
most `⌈16 log(n) / Δᵢ²⌉` times, while the union bound and fixed-sample
subgaussian estimates bound the complement by `1/n + 1/n²`.

The statement explicitly includes `n = 1`.  In that boundary case the bound on
the bad event is at least one, so an empty good event witnesses the claim.
-/

theorem ucb_suboptimal_arm_good_event
    {k : ℕ} (hk : 0 < k) {ν : StochasticBandit k}
    (hν : IsSubgaussianBandit 1 ν) {n : ℕ} (hn : 0 < n)
    {π : BanditPolicy k} (hπ : IsUCBPolicy (1 / (n : ℝ) ^ 2) π)
    (i : Fin k) (hi : 0 < banditGap ν i) :
    let u : ℕ := ⌈16 * Real.log n / (banditGap ν i) ^ 2⌉₊
    ∃ G : Set (BanditHistory k n),
      MeasurableSet G ∧
      (∀ h ∈ G, armPullCount i h ≤ u) ∧
      (banditMeasure ν π n).real Gᶜ ≤
        1 / (n : ℝ) + 1 / (n : ℝ) ^ 2 := by
  sorry

end BanditAlgorithm
Source
Lattimore--Szepesvari, Bandit Algorithms (CUP 2020), proof of Theorem 7.1, printed pp. 106--108 (PDF pp. 115--117), Eqs. (7.6)--(7.10), specialized to delta=1/n^2 and c=1/2; https://tor-lattimore.com/downloads/book/book.pdf

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