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We consider the problem of unconstrained online convex optimization (OCO) with sub-exponential noise, a strictly more general problem than the standard OCO. In this setting, the learner receives a subgradient of the loss functions corrupted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Kwang-Sung Jun , Francesco Orabona

Online Convex Optimization plays a key role in large scale machine learning. Early approaches to this problem were conservative, in which the main focus was protection against the worst case scenario. But recently several algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Parameswaran Kamalaruban

Practical online learning tasks are often naturally defined on unconstrained domains, where optimal algorithms for general convex losses are characterized by the notion of comparator adaptivity. In this paper, we design such algorithms in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zhiyu Zhang , Ashok Cutkosky , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

As application demands for online convex optimization accelerate, the need for designing new methods that simultaneously cover a large class of convex functions and impose the lowest possible regret is highly rising. Known online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Saeed Masoudian , Ali Arabzadeh , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Milad Jalal , Alireza Amouzad

We study a robust online convex optimization framework, where an adversary can introduce outliers by corrupting loss functions in an arbitrary number of rounds k, unknown to the learner. Our focus is on a novel setting allowing unbounded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Adarsh Barik , Anand Krishna , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Centered around solving the Online Saddle Point problem, this paper introduces the Online Convex-Concave Optimization (OCCO) framework, which involves a sequence of two-player time-varying convex-concave games. We propose the generalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Qing-xin Meng , Jian-wei Liu

We study Constrained Online Convex Optimization (COCO), where a learner chooses actions iteratively, observes both unanticipated convex loss and convex constraint, and accumulates loss while incurring penalties for constraint violations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ricardo N. Ferreira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares

This paper studies online nonstochastic control problems with adversarial and static constraints. We propose online nonstochastic control algorithms that achieve both sublinear regret and sublinear adversarial constraint violation while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xin Liu , Zixian Yang , Lei Ying

In this paper, we consider two paradigms that are developed to account for uncertainty in optimization models: robust optimization (RO) and joint estimation-optimization (JEO). We examine recent developments on efficient and scalable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Nam Ho-Nguyen , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

This work introduces the first small-loss and gradual-variation regret bounds for online portfolio selection, marking the first instances of data-dependent bounds for online convex optimization with non-Lipschitz, non-smooth losses. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Chung-En Tsai , Ying-Ting Lin , Yen-Huan Li

This paper considers online convex optimization with long term constraints, where constraints can be violated in intermediate rounds, but need to be satisfied in the long run. The cumulative constraint violation is used as the metric to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

We consider the problem of online convex optimization against an arbitrary adversary with bandit feedback, known as bandit convex optimization. We give the first $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{T})$-regret algorithm for this setting based on a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Elad Hazan , Yuanzhi Li

This paper considers the problem of online optimization where the objective function is time-varying. In particular, we extend coordinate descent type algorithms to the online case, where the objective function varies after a finite number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Yankai Lin , Iman Shames , Dragan Nešić

In many sequential decision making applications, the change of decision would bring an additional cost, such as the wear-and-tear cost associated with changing server status. To control the switching cost, we introduce the problem of online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Guanghui Wang , Yuanyu Wan , Tianbao Yang , Lijun Zhang

We study the framework of universal dynamic regret minimization with strongly convex losses. We answer an open problem in Baby and Wang 2021 by showing that in a proper learning setup, Strongly Adaptive algorithms can achieve the near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Dheeraj Baby , Yu-Xiang Wang

Making use of predictions is a crucial, but under-explored, area of online algorithms. This paper studies a class of online optimization problems where we have external noisy predictions available. We propose a stochastic prediction error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Niangjun Chen , Anish Agarwal , Adam Wierman , Siddharth Barman , Lachlan L. H. Andrew

Many techniques for online optimization problems involve making decisions based solely on presently available information: fewer works take advantage of potential predictions. In this paper, we discuss the problem of online convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

We study Online Convex Optimization with adversarial constraints (COCO). At each round a learner selects an action from a convex decision set and then an adversary reveals a convex cost and a convex constraint function. The goal of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Abhishek Sinha , Rahul Vaze

Recently, several universal methods have been proposed for online convex optimization which can handle convex, strongly convex and exponentially concave cost functions simultaneously. However, most of these algorithms have been designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arnold Salas

We study the problem of online learning with a notion of regret defined with respect to a set of strategies. We develop tools for analyzing the minimax rates and for deriving regret-minimization algorithms in this scenario. While the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-13 Wei Han , Alexander Rakhlin , Karthik Sridharan