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In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed online convex optimization, where a group of agents collaborate to track the global minimizers of a sum of time-varying objective functions in an online manner. Specifically, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Yan Zhang , Robert J. Ravier , Vahid Tarokh , Michael M. Zavlanos

An online decision-making problem is a learning problem in which a player repeatedly makes decisions in order to minimize the long-term loss. These problems that emerge in applications often have nonlinear combinatorial objective functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Ken Yokoyama , Shinji Ito , Tatsuya Matsuoka , Kei Kimura , Makoto Yokoo

In this paper, we revisit Stochastic Continuous Submodular Maximization in both offline and online settings, which can benefit wide applications in machine learning and operations research areas. We present a boosting framework covering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Qixin Zhang , Zengde Deng , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Yu Yang

In this paper, we consider online continuous DR-submodular maximization with linear stochastic long-term constraints. Compared to the prior work on online submodular maximization, our setting introduces the extra complication of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Prasanna Sanjay Raut , Omid Sadeghi , Maryam Fazel

We consider Constrained Online Convex Optimization (COCO) with adversarially chosen constraints. At each round, the learner chooses an action before observing the loss and constraint function for that round. The goal is to achieve small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Dhruv Sarkar , Abhishek Sinha

In this work, we study online convex optimization with a fixed constraint function $g : \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Prior work on this problem has shown $O(\sqrt{T})$ regret and cumulative constraint satisfaction $\sum_{t=1}^{T}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Spencer Hutchinson , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

Constrained Online Convex Optimization (COCO) can be seen as a generalization of the standard Online Convex Optimization (OCO) framework. At each round, a cost function and constraint function are revealed after a learner chooses an action.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ricardo N. Ferreira , Cláudia Soares

Online bilevel optimization (OBO) has emerged as a powerful framework for many machine learning problems. Prior works have developed several algorithms that minimize the standard bilevel local regret or the window-averaged bilevel local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tingkai Jia , Haiguang Wang , Cheng Chen

Recently, much work has been done on extending the scope of online learning and incremental stochastic optimization algorithms. In this paper we contribute to this effort in two ways: First, based on a new regret decomposition and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Pooria Joulani , András György , Csaba Szepesvári

We present the online Newton's method, a single-step second-order method for online nonconvex optimization. We analyze its performance and obtain a dynamic regret bound that is linear in the cumulative variation between round optima. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Joshua A. Taylor , Iman Shames

We analyze and evaluate an online gradient descent algorithm with adaptive per-coordinate adjustment of learning rates. Our algorithm can be thought of as an online version of batch gradient descent with a diagonal preconditioner. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-02-26 Matthew Streeter , H. Brendan McMahan

In this paper, online convex optimization is applied to the problem of controlling linear dynamical systems. An algorithm similar to online gradient descent, which can handle time-varying and unknown cost functions, is proposed. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Marko Nonhoff , Matthias A. Müller

In Online Convex Optimization (OCO), when the stochastic gradient has a finite variance, many algorithms provably work and guarantee a sublinear regret. However, limited results are known if the gradient estimate has a heavy tail, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zijian Liu

We consider max-min and min-max problems with objective functions that are possibly non-smooth, submodular with respect to the minimiser and concave with respect to the maximiser. We investigate the performance of a zeroth-order method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Amir Ali Farzin , Yuen-Man Pun , Philipp Braun , Tyler Summers , Iman Shames

In this work, we explore online convex optimization (OCO) and introduce a new condition and analysis that provides fast rates by exploiting the curvature of feasible sets. In online linear optimization, it is known that if the average…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Taira Tsuchiya , Shinji Ito

Stochastically Extended Adversarial (SEA) model is introduced by Sachs et al. [2022] as an interpolation between stochastic and adversarial online convex optimization. Under the smoothness condition, they demonstrate that the expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sijia Chen , Yu-Jie Zhang , Wei-Wei Tu , Peng Zhao , Lijun Zhang

This paper presents a unified approach for maximizing continuous DR-submodular functions that encompasses a range of settings and oracle access types. Our approach includes a Frank-Wolfe type offline algorithm for both monotone and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Mohammad Pedramfar , Christopher John Quinn , Vaneet Aggarwal

We study optimal regret bounds for control in linear dynamical systems under adversarially changing strongly convex cost functions, given the knowledge of transition dynamics. This includes several well studied and fundamental frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Naman Agarwal , Elad Hazan , Karan Singh

In online convex optimization (OCO), Lipschitz continuity of the functions is commonly assumed in order to obtain sublinear regret. Moreover, many algorithms have only logarithmic regret when these functions are also strongly convex.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihan Zhou , Victor S. Portella , Mark Schmidt , Nicholas J. A. Harvey

We study the problem of online learning (OL) from revealed preferences: a learner wishes to learn a non-strategic agent's private utility function through observing the agent's utility-maximizing actions in a changing environment. We adopt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Violet Xinying Chen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan