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Online learning with limited information feedback (bandit) tries to solve the problem where an online learner receives partial feedback information from the environment in the course of learning. Under this setting, Flaxman et al.[8]…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Binbin Liu , Jundong Li , Yunquan Song , Xijun Liang , Ling Jian , Huan Liu

We prove that two popular linear contextual bandit algorithms, OFUL and Thompson Sampling, can be made efficient using Frequent Directions, a deterministic online sketching technique. More precisely, we show that a sketch of size $m$ allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ilja Kuzborskij , Leonardo Cella , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

This work considers the problem of learning the Markov parameters of a linear system from observed data. Recent non-asymptotic system identification results have characterized the sample complexity of this problem in the single and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Han Wang , James Anderson

Online Kernel Learning (OKL) has attracted considerable research interest due to its promising predictive performance in streaming environments. Second-order approaches are particularly appealing for OKL as they often offer substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dongxie Wen , Xiao Zhang , Zhewei Wei , Chenping Hou , Shuai Li , Weinan Zhang

Second-order optimization methods are among the most widely used optimization approaches for convex optimization problems, and have recently been used to optimize non-convex optimization problems such as deep learning models. The widely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Dinesh Singh , Hardik Tankaria , Makoto Yamada

Constrained stochastic nonlinear optimization problems have attracted significant attention for their ability to model complex real-world scenarios in physics, economics, and biology. As datasets continue to grow, online inference methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Xinchen Du , Wanrong Zhu , Wei Biao Wu , Sen Na

The goal of a learner, in standard online learning, is to have the cumulative loss not much larger compared with the best-performing function from some fixed class. Numerous algorithms were shown to have this gap arbitrarily close to zero,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Nina Vaits , Edward Moroshko , Koby Crammer

While first-order optimization methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are popular in machine learning (ML), they come with well-known deficiencies, including relatively-slow convergence, sensitivity to the settings of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Peng Xu , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

Data-dependent hashing methods have demonstrated good performance in various machine learning applications to learn a low-dimensional representation from the original data. However, they still suffer from several obstacles: First, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Xixian Chen , Haiqin Yang , Shenglin Zhao , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

We develop a randomized Newton method capable of solving learning problems with huge dimensional feature spaces, which is a common setting in applications such as medical imaging, genomics and seismology. Our method leverages randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Robert M. Gower , Dmitry Kovalev , Felix Lieder , Peter Richtárik

Stochastic optimization methods encounter new challenges in the realm of streaming, characterized by a continuous flow of large, high-dimensional data. While first-order methods, like stochastic gradient descent, are the natural choice,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Nicklas Werge

In this paper, we study a special bandit setting of online stochastic linear optimization, where only one-bit of information is revealed to the learner at each round. This problem has found many applications including online advertisement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We develop a novel framework for uncertainty quantification in operator learning, the Stochastic Operator Network (SON). SON combines the stochastic optimal control concepts of the Stochastic Neural Network (SNN) with the DeepONet. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ryan Bausback , Jingqiao Tang , Lu Lu , Feng Bao , Toan Huynh

In many contemporary optimization problems such as those arising in machine learning, it can be computationally challenging or even infeasible to evaluate an entire function or its derivatives. This motivates the use of stochastic…

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We study the problem of online non-stochastic control (ONC), which is the control of a linear system under adversarial disturbances and adversarial cost functions, with the aim of minimizing the total cost incurred. A recent line of…

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We consider feature selection for applications in machine learning where the dimensionality of the data is so large that it exceeds the working memory of the (local) computing machine. Unfortunately, current large-scale sketching algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Amirali Aghazadeh , Vipul Gupta , Alex DeWeese , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kannan Ramchandran

We present methods for online linear optimization that take advantage of benign (as opposed to worst-case) sequences. Specifically if the sequence encountered by the learner is described well by a known "predictable process", the algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-27 Alexander Rakhlin , Karthik Sridharan

Cost-Sensitive Online Classification has drawn extensive attention in recent years, where the main approach is to directly online optimize two well-known cost-sensitive metrics: (i) weighted sum of sensitivity and specificity; (ii) weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Peilin Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Min Wu , Steven C. H. Hoi , Mingkui Tan , Junzhou Huang

We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for minimizing the average of a very large number of sufficiently smooth and strongly convex functions. The first is a stochastic variant of Newton's method (SN), and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Konstantin Mishchenko , Peter Richtárik

Sketch techniques have been extensively studied in recent years and are especially well-suited to data streaming scenarios, where the sketch summary is updated quickly and compactly. However, it is challenging to recover the current state…

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