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We study the problem of safe online convex optimization, where the action at each time step must satisfy a set of linear safety constraints. The goal is to select a sequence of actions to minimize the regret without violating the safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Sapana Chaudhary , Dileep Kalathil

In this paper, we present an improved analysis for dynamic regret of strongly convex and smooth functions. Specifically, we investigate the Online Multiple Gradient Descent (OMGD) algorithm proposed by Zhang et al. (2017). The original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Peng Zhao , Lijun Zhang

A novel Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader type algorithm is proposed and analyzed for solving general long-term constrained optimization problems in an online manner, where the target and constraint functions are oblivious adversarially generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Shijie Pan , Jianyu Xu , Wenjie Huang

We study Online Convex Optimization (OCO) with adversarial constraints, where an online algorithm must make sequential decisions to minimize both convex loss functions and cumulative constraint violations. We focus on a setting where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Jordan Lekeufack , Michael I. Jordan

In citep{Hazan-2008-extract}, the authors showed that the regret of online linear optimization can be bounded by the total variation of the cost vectors. In this paper, we extend this result to general online convex optimization. We first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu

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

The development of online algorithms to track time-varying systems has drawn a lot of attention in the last years, in particular in the framework of online convex optimization. Meanwhile, sparse time-varying optimization has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Sophie M. Fosson

Distributed online convex optimization (D-OCO) is a powerful paradigm for modeling distributed scenarios with streaming data. However, the communication cost between local learners and the central server is substantial in large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sifan Yang , Dan-Yue Li , Lijun Zhang

The need for fast and robust optimization algorithms are of critical importance in all areas of machine learning. This paper treats the task of designing optimization algorithms as an optimal control problem. Using regret as a metric for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Philippe Casgrain , Anastasis Kratsios

This article investigates the problem of controlling linear time-invariant systems subject to time-varying and a priori unknown cost functions, state and input constraints, and exogenous disturbances. We combine the online convex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Marko Nonhoff , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Matthias A. Müller

This paper considers nonconvex distributed constrained optimization over networks, modeled as directed (possibly time-varying) graphs. We introduce the first algorithmic framework for the minimization of the sum of a smooth nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun

Non-stationary online learning has drawn much attention in recent years. In particular, dynamic regret and adaptive regret are proposed as two principled performance measures for online convex optimization in non-stationary environments. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Peng Zhao , Yan-Feng Xie , Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

In this paper, we consider an online optimization problem over $T$ rounds where at each step $t\in[T]$, the algorithm chooses an action $x_t$ from the fixed convex and compact domain set $\mathcal{K}$. A utility function $f_t(\cdot)$ is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Omid Sadeghi , Prasanna Raut , Maryam Fazel

Recently, several universal methods have been proposed for online convex optimization, and attain minimax rates for multiple types of convex functions simultaneously. However, they need to design and optimize one surrogate loss for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lijun Zhang , Yibo Wang , Guanghui Wang , Jinfeng Yi , Tianbao Yang

This paper considers online convex optimization (OCO) with stochastic constraints, which generalizes Zinkevich's OCO over a known simple fixed set by introducing multiple stochastic functional constraints that are i.i.d. generated at each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely , Xiaohan Wei

We introduce the problem of $k$-chasing of convex functions, a simultaneous generalization of both the famous k-server problem in $R^d$, and of the problem of chasing convex bodies and functions. Aside from fundamental interest in this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Sébastien Bubeck , Yuval Rabani , Mark Sellke

This paper studies distributed convex optimization with both affine equality and nonlinear inequality couplings through the duality analysis. We first formulate the dual of the coupling-constraint problem and reformulate it as a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Chenyang Qiu , Yangyang Qian , Zongli Lin , Yacov A. Shamash

We develop a reduction-based framework for online learning with delayed feedback that recovers and improves upon existing results for both first-order and bandit convex optimization. Our approach introduces a continuous-time model under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alexander Ryabchenko , Idan Attias , Daniel M. Roy

We investigate the challenging problem of adversarial multi-armed bandits operating under time-varying constraints, a scenario motivated by numerous real-world applications. To address this complex setting, we propose a novel primal-dual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tareq Si Salem

This paper considers online distributed convex constrained optimization over a time-varying multi-agent network. Agents in this network cooperate to minimize the global objective function through information exchange with their neighbors…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Kaihong Lu , Deming Yuan