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Online portfolio selection is a fundamental problem in computational finance, which has been extensively studied across several research communities, including finance, statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining,…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-21 Bin Li , Steven C. H. Hoi

We study the online constrained ranking problem motivated by an application to web-traffic shaping: an online stream of sessions arrive in which, within each session, we are asked to rank items. The challenge involves optimizing the ranking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Parikshit Shah , Akshay Soni , Troy Chevalier

The topic of learning to solve optimization problems has received interest from both the operations research and machine learning communities. In this work, we combine techniques from both fields to address the problem of learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Aaron Babier , Timothy C. Y. Chan , Adam Diamant , Rafid Mahmood

With the growing needs of online A/B testing to support the innovation in industry, the opportunity cost of running an experiment becomes non-negligible. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for an efficient continuous monitoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Runzhe Wan , Yu Liu , James McQueen , Doug Hains , Rui Song

We present an algorithm guaranteeing dynamic regret bounds for online omniprediction with long term constraints. The goal in this recently introduced problem is for a learner to generate a sequence of predictions which are broadcast to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yahav Bechavod , Jiuyao Lu , Aaron Roth

In many settings, a decision-maker wishes to learn a rule, or policy, that maps from observable characteristics of an individual to an action. Examples include selecting offers, prices, advertisements, or emails to send to consumers, as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-20 Zhengyuan Zhou , Susan Athey , Stefan Wager

We examine two types of binary betting markets, whose primary goal is for profit (such as sports gambling) or to gain information (such as prediction markets). We articulate the interplay between belief and price-setting to analyse both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Haiqing Zhu , Alexander Soen , Yun Kuen Cheung , Lexing Xie

The study of repeated interactions between a learner and a utility-maximizing optimizer has yielded deep insights into the manipulability of learning algorithms. However, existing literature primarily focuses on independent, unlinked…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Giannis Fikioris , Balasubramanian Sivan , Éva Tardos

We consider an online revenue maximization problem over a finite time horizon subject to lower and upper bounds on cost. At each period, an agent receives a context vector sampled i.i.d. from an unknown distribution and needs to make a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Alfonso Lobos , Paul Grigas , Zheng Wen

For many internet businesses, presenting a given list of items in an order that maximizes a certain metric of interest (e.g., click-through-rate, average engagement time etc.) is crucial. We approach the aforementioned task from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Swayambhoo Jain , Akshay Soni , Nikolay Laptev , Yashar Mehdad

The vast majority of optimization and online learning algorithms today require some prior information about the data (often in the form of bounds on gradients or on the optimal parameter value). When this information is not available, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Ashok Cutkosky , Kwabena Boahen

Mobile platforms must satisfy the contradictory requirements of fast response time and minimum energy consumption as a function of dynamically changing applications. To address this need, system-on-chips (SoC) that are at the heart of these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Sumit K. Mandal , Ganapati Bhat , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande , Umit Y. Ogras

Online platforms increasingly rely on sequential decision-making algorithms to allocate resources, match users, or control exposure, while facing growing pressure to ensure fairness over time. We study a general online decision-making…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Rui Chen , Oktay Gunluk , Andrea Lodi , Guanyi Wang

We examine the problem of smoothed online optimization, where a decision maker must sequentially choose points in a normed vector space to minimize the sum of per-round, non-convex hitting costs and the costs of switching decisions between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Daan Rutten , Nico Christianson , Debankur Mukherjee , Adam Wierman

Federated learning utilizes various resources provided by participants to collaboratively train a global model, which potentially address the data privacy issue of machine learning. In such promising paradigm, the performance will be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Rongfei Zeng , Chao Zeng , Xingwei Wang , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu

We study monotone submodular maximization under general matroid constraints in the online setting. We prove that online optimization of a large class of submodular functions, namely, weighted threshold potential functions, reduces to online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tareq Si Salem , Gözde Özcan , Iasonas Nikolaou , Evimaria Terzi , Stratis Ioannidis

This paper concerns the mechanism design for online resource allocation in a strategic setting. In this setting, a single supplier allocates capacity-limited resources to requests that arrive in a sequential and arbitrary manner. Each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiaoqi Tan , Bo Sun , Alberto Leon-Garcia , Yuan Wu , Danny H. K. Tsang

Real-life combinatorial optimization problems often involve several conflicting objectives, such as price, product quality and sustainability. A computationally-efficient way to tackle multiple objectives is to aggregate them into a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Marianne Defresne , Jayanta Mandi , Tias Guns

We study online learning problems in which a decision maker has to make a sequence of costly decisions, with the goal of maximizing their expected reward while adhering to budget and return-on-investment (ROI) constraints. Existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Christian Kroer

The problem of computing near-optimal contracts in combinatorial settings has recently attracted significant interest in the computer science community. Previous work has provided a rich body of structural and algorithmic insights into this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Michal Feldman , Yoav Gal-Tzur , Tomasz Ponitka , Maya Schlesinger