- The paper could benefit from a better practical motivation, in its current form it will be quite hard for someone who is not at home in this field to understand why they should care about this work. What are specific practical examples in which the proposed algorithm would be beneficial? - The presentation of the simulation study is not really doing a favor to the authors. Specifically, the authors do not really comment on why the GPC (benchmark) is performing better than BPC (their method). It would be worth re-iterating that this is b/c of the bandit feedback and not using information about the form of the cost function. - More generally, the discussion of the simulation study results could be strenghtened. It is not really clear what the reader should take away from the results, and some discussion could help a lot with interpreting them properly.
- The presentation of the simulation study is not really doing a favor to the authors. Specifically, the authors do not really comment on why the GPC (benchmark) is performing better than BPC (their method). It would be worth re-iterating that this is b/c of the bandit feedback and not using information about the form of the cost function.