Removing the valuable-decomposition assumption

Remove Assumption 8, which requires that almost every request admit a decomposition whose expected reward sufficiently exceeds its normalized success-conditioned resource demand, while retaining finite-time guarantees for proxy-based contextual constrained kernel bandits.

Background

The concrete GP-based performance bounds rely on Assumption 8, an additional condition ensuring the existence of a sufficiently valuable decomposition for almost every request. This assumption is used to control the proxy constraint-surrogate error and the optimality gap introduced by conservative proxying. The paper does not establish its guarantees without this condition and explicitly leaves its removal unresolved.

References

Removing this condition remains future work.

Contextual Bandit-Based Decomposition of Network Slice Requirements under Cumulative Resource Budget Constraints  (2609.09624 - Kobayashi et al., 9 Sep 2026) in Remark 3, Section V-D, p. 17