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We study the decades-old problem of online portfolio management and propose the first algorithm with logarithmic regret that is not based on Cover's Universal Portfolio algorithm and admits much faster implementation. Specifically Universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Kai Zheng

We consider a generalization of the celebrated Online Convex Optimization (OCO) framework with adversarial online constraints. In this problem, an online learner interacts with an adversary sequentially over multiple rounds. At the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Subhamon Supantha , Abhishek Sinha

We consider online convex optimization with a zero-order oracle feedback. In particular, the decision maker does not know the explicit representation of the time-varying cost functions, or their gradients. At each time step, she observes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

We consider the setting of online logistic regression and consider the regret with respect to the 2-ball of radius B. It is known (see [Hazan et al., 2014]) that any proper algorithm which has logarithmic regret in the number of samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Rémi Jézéquel , Pierre Gaillard , Alessandro Rudi

We consider the classic problem of online convex optimisation. Whereas the notion of static regret is relevant for stationary problems, the notion of switching regret is more appropriate for non-stationary problems. A switching regret is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Stephen Pasteris , Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis , Mark Herbster

This paper addresses safe distributed online optimization over an unknown set of linear safety constraints. A network of agents aims at jointly minimizing a global, time-varying function, which is only partially observable to each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Ting-Jui Chang , Sapana Chaudhary , Dileep Kalathil , Shahin Shahrampour

We consider the task of learning to control a linear dynamical system under fixed quadratic costs, known as the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem. While model-free approaches are often favorable in practice, thus far only model-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Asaf Cassel , Tomer Koren

We consider the problem of learning in Linear Quadratic Control systems whose transition parameters are initially unknown. Recent results in this setting have demonstrated efficient learning algorithms with regret growing with the square…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Asaf Cassel , Alon Cohen , Tomer Koren

In this work, we study the online convex optimization problem with curved losses and delayed feedback. When losses are strongly convex, existing approaches obtain regret bounds of order $d_{\max} \ln T$, where $d_{\max}$ is the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hao Qiu , Emmanuel Esposito , Mengxiao Zhang

This work introduces the first small-loss and gradual-variation regret bounds for online portfolio selection, marking the first instances of data-dependent bounds for online convex optimization with non-Lipschitz, non-smooth losses. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Chung-En Tsai , Ying-Ting Lin , Yen-Huan Li

This paper considers online optimal control with affine constraints on the states and actions under linear dynamics with bounded random disturbances. The system dynamics and constraints are assumed to be known and time-invariant but the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Yingying Li , Subhro Das , Na Li

This paper considers online convex optimization over a complicated constraint set, which typically consists of multiple functional constraints and a set constraint. The conventional online projection algorithm (Zinkevich, 2003) can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely

This paper addresses an online convex optimization problem where the cost function at each step depends on a history of past decisions (i.e., memory), and the decision maker has access to limited predictions of future cost values within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Zhengmiao Wang , Zhi-Wei Liu , Ming Chi , Xiaoling Wang , Housheng Su , Lintao Ye

We propose an online learning algorithm that adaptively designs a decentralized linear quadratic regulator when the system model is unknown a priori and new data samples from a single system trajectory become progressively available. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Lintao Ye , Ming Chi , Ruiquan Liao , Vijay Gupta

We provide an online convex optimization algorithm with regret that interpolates between the regret of an algorithm using an optimal preconditioning matrix and one using a diagonal preconditioning matrix. Our regret bound is never worse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Ashok Cutkosky , Tamas Sarlos

The problem of regret minimization for online adaptive control of linear-quadratic systems is studied. In this problem, the true system transition parameters (matrices $A$ and $B$) are unknown, and the objective is to design and analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Mohammad Akbari , Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder

The theory of deep learning focuses almost exclusively on supervised learning, non-convex optimization using stochastic gradient descent, and overparametrized neural networks. It is common belief that the optimizer dynamics, network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xinyi Chen , Edgar Minasyan , Jason D. Lee , Elad Hazan

We consider the problem of controlling an unknown linear time-invariant dynamical system from a single chain of black-box interactions, with no access to resets or offline simulation. Under the assumption that the system is controllable, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan

This paper considers a bi-level discrete-time control framework with real-time constraints, consisting of several local controllers and a central controller. The objective is to bridge the gap between the online convex optimization and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Andrey Bernstein

In this paper, we consider an online optimization process, where the objective functions are not convex (nor concave) but instead belong to a broad class of continuous submodular functions. We first propose a variant of the Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Lin Chen , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi