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Fixed Budget is No Harder Than Fixed Confidence in Best-A...
Kapilan Balagopalan, Yinan Li, Yao Zhao, Tuan Nguyen, Anton Dait · 2026-02-04 · via stat updates on arXiv.org

The best-arm identification (BAI) problem is one of the most fundamental problems in interactive machine learning, which has two flavors: the fixed-budget setting (FB) and the fixed-confidence setting (FC). For $K$-armed bandits with a unique best arm, the optimal sample complexities for both settings have been settled down, and they match up to logarithmic factors. This prompts an interesting research question about the generic, potentially structured BAI problems: is FB harder than FC or the other way around? In this paper, we show that FB is no harder than FC up to logarithmic factors. We do this constructively: we propose a novel algorithm called FC2FB (fixed confidence to fixed budget), which is a meta algorithm that takes in an FC algorithm $\mathcal{A}$ and turn it into an FB algorithm. We prove that FC2FB enjoys a sample complexity that matches, up to logarithmic factors, that of the sample complexity of $\mathcal{A}$. This means that the optimal FC sample complexity is an upper bound of the optimal FB sample complexity up to logarithmic factors. Our result not only reveals a fundamental relationship between FB and FC, but also has a significant implication: FC2FB combined with existing state-of-the-art FC algorithms leads to improved sample complexity for a number of FB problems.