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  1. We consider the infinite-horizon, average-reward restless bandit problem in discrete time. We propose a new class of policies that are designed to drive a progressively larger subset of arms toward the optimal distribution. We show that our policies are asymptotically optimal with an [Formula: see text] optimality gap for an N-armed problem, assuming only a unichain and aperiodicity assumption. Our approach departs from most existing work that focuses on index or priority policies, which rely on the Global Attractor Property to guarantee convergence to the optimum, or a recently developed simulation-based policy, which requires a Synchronization Assumption. 
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