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Online Bilevel Optimization: Regret Analysis of Online Alternating Gradient Methods

Optimization and Control 2024-07-10 v7 Data Structures and Algorithms Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper introduces \textit{online bilevel optimization} in which a sequence of time-varying bilevel problems is revealed one after the other. We extend the known regret bounds for online single-level algorithms to the bilevel setting. Specifically, we provide new notions of \textit{bilevel regret}, develop an online alternating time-averaged gradient method that is capable of leveraging smoothness, and give regret bounds in terms of the path-length of the inner and outer minimizer sequences.

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@article{arxiv.2207.02829,
  title  = {Online Bilevel Optimization: Regret Analysis of Online Alternating Gradient Methods},
  author = {Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh and Parvin Nazari and Bojian Hou and Li Shen and Laura Balzano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02829},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Published at AISTATS 2024. V7: minor edits to the statement of Lemma 18 and Assumption A

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