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Online optimization has emerged as powerful tool in large scale optimization. In this pa- per, we introduce efficient online optimization algorithms based on the alternating direction method (ADM), which can solve online convex optimization…
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We study meta-learning for adversarial multi-armed bandits. We consider the online-within-online setup, in which a player (learner) encounters a sequence of multi-armed bandit episodes. The player's performance is measured as regret against…
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