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This paper investigates online composite optimization in dynamic environments, where each objective or loss function contains a time-varying nondifferentiable regularizer. To resolve it, an online proximal gradient algorithm is studied for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Ruijie Hou , Xiuxian Li , Yang Shi

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

Video caching can significantly improve delivery efficiency and enhance quality of video streaming, which constitutes the majority of wireless communication traffic. Due to limited cache size, caching strategies must be designed to adapt to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yijing Zhang , Md-Ferdous Pervej , Andreas F. Molisch

Content caching at intermediate nodes is a very effective way to optimize the operations of Computer networks, so that future requests can be served without going back to the origin of the content. Several caching techniques have been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ammar Gharaibeh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil , Jie Wu

We investigate online convex optimization in non-stationary environments and choose the dynamic regret as the performance measure, defined as the difference between cumulative loss incurred by the online algorithm and that of any feasible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peng Zhao , Yu-Jie Zhang , Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Unlike classical control theory, such as Linear Quadratic Control (LQC), real-world control problems are highly complex. These problems often involve adversarial perturbations, bandit feedback models, and non-quadratic, adversarially chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Y. Jennifer Sun , Zhou Lu

With files proactively stored at base stations (BSs), mobile edge caching enables direct content delivery without remote file fetching, which can reduce the end-to-end delay while relieving backhaul pressure. To effectively utilize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Shan Zhang , Peter He , Katsuya Suto , Peng Yang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen

In this paper we study online caching problems where predictions of future requests, e.g., provided by a machine learning model, are available. Typical online optimistic policies are based on the Follow-The-Regularized-Leader algorithm and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Francescomaria Faticanti , Giovanni Neglia

Online paging is a fundamental problem in the field of online algorithms, in which one maintains a cache of $k$ slots as requests for fetching pages arrive online. In the weighted variant of this problem, each page has its own fetching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Orin Levy , Noam Touitou , Aviv Rosenberg

We extend the regret analysis of the online distributed weighted dual averaging (DWDA) algorithm [1] to the dynamic setting and provide the tightest dynamic regret bound known to date with respect to the time horizon for a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Duncan S. Callaway

We propose an online convex optimization algorithm (RescaledExp) that achieves optimal regret in the unconstrained setting without prior knowledge of any bounds on the loss functions. We prove a lower bound showing an exponential separation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Ashok Cutkosky , Kwabena Boahen

Caching has recently attracted a lot of attention in the wireless communications community, as a means to cope with the increasing number of users consuming web content from mobile devices. Caching offers an opportunity for a win-win…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Theodoros Giannakas , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Pavlos Sermpezis

The ever-growing end user data demands, and the simultaneous reductions in memory costs are fueling edge-caching deployments. Caching at the edge is substantially different from that at the core and needs to take into account the nature of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Guocong Quan , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness Shroff

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

Spurred by the enthusiasm surrounding the "Big Data" paradigm, the mathematical and algorithmic tools of online optimization have found widespread use in problems where the trade-off between data exploration and exploitation plays a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-18 E. Veronica Belmega , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Romain Negrel , Luca Sanguinetti

We consider stochastic optimization of a smooth non-convex loss function with a convex non-smooth regularizer. In the online setting, where a single sample of the stochastic gradient of the loss is available at every iteration, the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Basil M. Idrees , Javed Akhtar , Ketan Rajawat

Online learning aims to perform nearly as well as the best hypothesis in hindsight. For some hypothesis classes, though, even finding the best hypothesis offline is challenging. In such offline cases, local search techniques are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Michael Bowling , Martin Zinkevich

This paper addresses Online Convex Optimization (OCO) problems where the constraints have additive perturbations that (i) vary over time and (ii) are not known at the time to make a decision. Perturbations may not be i.i.d. generated and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Víctor Valls , George Iosifidis , Douglas J. Leith , Leandros Tassiulas

Caching high-frequency reuse contents at the edge servers in the mobile edge computing (MEC) network omits the part of backhaul transmission and further releases the pressure of data traffic. However, how to efficiently decide the caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yuqi Han , Rui Wang , Jun Wu , Dian Liu , Haoqi Ren

Caching and multicasting are two promising methods to support massive content delivery in multi-tier wireless networks. In this paper, we consider a random caching and multicasting scheme with caching distributions in the two tiers as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Zitian Wang , Zhehan Cao , Ying Cui , Yang Yang