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Conditions for indexability of restless bandits and an $O(K^3)$ algorithm to compute whittle index – CORRIGENDUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2023

Nima Akbarzadeh*
Affiliation:
McGill University
Aditya Mahajan*
Affiliation:
McGill University
*
*Postal address: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 Rue University, Montréal, QC H3A,0E9.
*Postal address: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 Rue University, Montréal, QC H3A,0E9.
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Abstract

This note corrects an error in the formula to obtain the Whittle index using the Sherman–Morrison formula in Akbarzadeh and Mahajan (2022). Also, some other minor typos are highlighted.

Type
Corrigendum
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Applied Probability Trust

1. Introduction

The following corrections need to be applied to [Reference Akbarzadeh and Mahajan1]:

  1. 1. On p. 11, Equation (19) is missing a term and should be updated as follows:

    \begin{align*} D^{(h_{d,y})} & = D^{(h_{d})} - \dfrac{(1-\beta) \Phi^{(h_{d})} (c^{(h_d)} - c^{(h_{d, y})}) + \beta\rho^{\mathsf{T}}_y \Phi^{(h_{d})}_{\cdot y}D^{(h_{d})}}{1 + \beta\rho^{\mathsf{T}}_y \Phi^{(h_{d})}_{\cdot y}}, \\[5pt] N^{(h_{d,y})} & = N^{(h_{d})} - \dfrac{(1-\beta) \Phi^{(h_{d})} (h_d - h_{d, y}) + \beta\rho^{\mathsf{T}}_y \Phi^{(h_{d})}_{\cdot y}N^{(h_{d})}}{1 + \beta\rho^{\mathsf{T}}_y \Phi^{(h_{d})}_{\cdot y}}. \end{align*}
    These formulas are derived by combining Equations (8) and (18).
  2. 2. On p. 15, the numbers and indices in Part 4 are incorrect and should be updated as follows:

    • For $y = 2$ , $h_{2,2} = [0, 0, 0]$ , $N^{(h_{2,2})} = [0, 0, 0]$ , and $D^{(h_{2,2})} = [\!-\!0.21, -0.22, -0.37]$ . Therefore, $\Lambda_{2,2} = \{x \in \mathcal{X} \;:\; N^{(\bar g^{(\mathcal{W}_2)}}(x) \neq N^{(h_{2,2})}(x) \} = \{1, 2, 3\}$ . Now, for each $x \in \Lambda_{2,2}$ , we compute $\mu_{2,2}(1) = \mu_{2,2}(2) = \mu_{2,2}(3) = 0.8$ . Therefore, $\mu^*_{2,2} = 0.8$ .

Now $\mu^*_{2,2} = 0.8$ . Therefore, $\mathcal{W}_3 = \{1, 2, 3\}$ and $w(2) = 0.8$ .

Some other grammatical errors and typos are highlighted below:

  1. 1. On p. 6, Figure 1: The lower $D^{(h_2)}(x)$ should be changed to $D^{(h_1)}(x)$ . The updated figure is as follows:

  2. 2. On p. 6, Lemma 1: The term ‘piecewise linear’ is repeated and should be removed from the first sentence. The updated lemma should read as follows:

    Lemma 1. For any $x \in \mathcal{X}$ , $V_\lambda(x)$ is continuous, increasing, and concave in $\lambda$ . Furthermore, when $\mathcal{X}$ is finite, $V_\lambda(x)$ is piecewise linear in $\lambda$ .

  3. 3. On p. 18, proof of Lemma 5: The statement starting with ‘Now (D5) implies that …’ should be changed to ‘The assumption that $N^{(g^{(\ell)})}(x)$ is non-increasing in $\ell$ implies that ….’

  4. 4. On p. 20, line 4: The second $Z^{[g]}$ should be $\tilde Z^{[g]}$ . So the line after the displayed equation should read as follows: ‘… then $Z^{[g]} = \left[\begin{array}{c@{\quad}c} 6 & 8 \\[5pt] 14 & 16 \end{array}\right]$ and $\tilde{Z}^{[g]} = \left[\begin{array}{c@{\quad}c} 5 & 8 \\[5pt] 13 & 15 \end{array}\right]$ .’

  5. 5. On p. 22, line 3: Where we say ‘relative (percentage) performance improvement’, we should instead say ‘relative (percentage) performance’.

Funding information

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Competing interests

There were no competing interests to declare which arose during the preparation or publication process of this article.

References

Akbarzadeh, N. and Mahajan, A. (2022). Conditions for indexability of restless bandits and an $\mathcal{O}(K^3)$ algorithm to compute Whittle index. Adv. Appl. Prob. 54, 11641192.Google Scholar