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We consider the problem where $M$ agents interact with $M$ identical and independent environments with $S$ states and $A$ actions using reinforcement learning for $T$ rounds. The agents share their data with a central server to minimize…

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Distributed computing is a standard way to scale up machine learning and data science algorithms to process large amounts of data. In such settings, avoiding communication amongst machines is paramount for achieving high performance. Rather…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-04 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Austin R. Benson , Anil Damle

We study online learning problems in which a decision maker has to take a sequence of decisions subject to $m$ long-term constraints. The goal of the decision maker is to maximize their total reward, while at the same time achieving small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Alberto Marchesi , Giulia Romano , Nicola Gatti

We consider the problem of prediction with expert advice when the losses of the experts have low-dimensional structure: they are restricted to an unknown $d$-dimensional subspace. We devise algorithms with regret bounds that are independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Elad Hazan , Tomer Koren , Roi Livni , Yishay Mansour

In the era of big data, it is necessary to split extremely large data sets across multiple computing nodes and construct estimators using the distributed data. When designing distributed estimators, it is desirable to minimize the amount of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Azeem Zaman , Botond Szabó

We study a variant of the contextual bandit problem where an agent can intervene through a set of stochastic expert policies. Given a fixed context, each expert samples actions from a fixed conditional distribution. The agent seeks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Nihal Sharma , Rajat Sen , Soumya Basu , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Sanjay Shakkottai

In this paper, we consider an online distributed composite optimization problem over a time-varying multi-agent network that consists of multiple interacting nodes, where the objective function of each node consists of two parts: a loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Deming Yuan , Yiguang Hong , Daniel W. C. Ho , Shengyuan Xu

In this paper, we introduce a distributed version of the classical stochastic Multi-Arm Bandit (MAB) problem. Our setting consists of a large number of agents $n$ that collaboratively and simultaneously solve the same instance of $K$ armed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Abishek Sankararaman , Ayalvadi Ganesh , Sanjay Shakkottai

We study the problem of incentive-compatible online learning with bandit feedback. In this class of problems, the experts are self-interested agents who might misrepresent their preferences with the goal of being selected most often. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Julian Zimmert , Teodor V. Marinov

We consider the problem of distributed learning, where a network of agents collectively aim to agree on a hypothesis that best explains a set of distributed observations of conditionally independent random processes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe

We consider the problem of communication efficient distributed optimization where multiple nodes exchange important algorithm information in every iteration to solve large problems. In particular, we focus on the stochastic variance-reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Sindri Magnusson

In this paper, a stochastic approximation (SA) based distributed algorithm is proposed to solve the resource allocation (RA) with uncertainties. In this problem, a group of agents cooperatively optimize a separable optimization problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Peng Yi , Jinlong Lei , Yiguang Hong

We study the stochastic Multiplayer Multi-Armed Bandit (MMAB) problem, where multiple players select arms to maximize their cumulative rewards. Collisions occur when two or more players select the same arm, resulting in no reward, and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Daoyuan Zhou , Xuchuang Wang , Lin Yang , Yang Gao

We consider an online resource allocation problem where multiple resources, each with an individual initial capacity, are available to serve random requests arriving sequentially over multiple discrete time periods. At each time period, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jiashuo Jiang , Jiawei Zhang

We study the problem of uncertainty quantification via prediction sets, in an online setting where the data distribution may vary arbitrarily over time. Recent work develops online conformal prediction techniques that leverage regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Aadyot Bhatnagar , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Yu Bai

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm for stochastic smooth, non-convex optimization. We assume a worker-server architecture where $N$ nodes, each having $n$ (potentially infinite) number of samples, collaborate with the help of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Pranay Sharma , Swatantra Kafle , Prashant Khanduri , Saikiran Bulusu , Ketan Rajawat , Pramod K. Varshney

The evaluation of final-iteration tracking performance is a formidable obstacle in distributed online optimization algorithms. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel evaluation metric named distributed forgetting-factor regret…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Lipo Mo , Jianjun Li , Min Zuo , Lei Wang

We study online resource allocation under non-stationary demand with a minimum offline data requirement. In this problem, a decision-maker must allocate multiple types of resources to sequentially arriving queries over a finite horizon.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yiding Feng , Jiashuo Jiang , Yige Wang

We provide two distributed confidence ball algorithms for solving linear bandit problems in peer to peer networks with limited communication capabilities. For the first, we assume that all the peers are solving the same linear bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Nathan Korda , Balazs Szorenyi , Shuai Li

This paper proposes a novel approach to construct data-driven online solutions to optimization problems (P) subject to a class of distributionally uncertain dynamical systems. The introduced framework allows for the simultaneous learning of…

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