@article{nearoptimalregretforklregularizedmultiar,
  title = {Near-Optimal Regret for KL-Regularized Multi-Armed Bandits},
  author = {Kaixuan Ji and Qingyue Zhao and Heyang Zhao and Qiwei Di and Quanquan Gu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.02155},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02155},
}