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The performance of online convex optimization algorithms in a dynamic environment is often expressed in terms of the dynamic regret, which measures the decision maker's performance against a sequence of time-varying comparators. In the…

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We study the problem of Online Convex Optimization (OCO) with memory, which allows loss functions to depend on past decisions and thus captures temporal effects of learning problems. In this paper, we introduce dynamic policy regret as the…

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We study online optimization problems in which the cost function depends on latent, time-varying parameters that are unmeasurable and governed by unknown dynamics. Specifically, we consider a strongly convex cost function whose linear term…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Shivanshu Tripathi , Maziar Raissi

We consider the problem of controlling a possibly unknown linear dynamical system with adversarial perturbations, adversarially chosen convex loss functions, and partially observed states, known as non-stochastic control. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Max Simchowitz , Karan Singh , Elad Hazan

We consider algorithms for "smoothed online convex optimization" problems, a variant of the class of online convex optimization problems that is strongly related to metrical task systems. Prior literature on these problems has focused on…

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In this paper, we investigate the online non-convex optimization problem which generalizes the classic {online convex optimization problem by relaxing the convexity assumption on the cost function. For this type of problem, the classic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Lin Yang , Cheng Tan , Wing Shing Wong

In the framework of Model Predictive Control (MPC), the control input is typically computed by solving optimization problems repeatedly online. For general nonlinear systems, the online optimization problems are non-convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

This paper describes a new online convex optimization method which incorporates a family of candidate dynamical models and establishes novel tracking regret bounds that scale with the comparator's deviation from the best dynamical model in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-08 Eric C. Hall , Rebecca M. Willett

We consider joint optimization and learning problems arising in real-time decision systems. While most existing work focuses primarily on convex, revenue-based objectives, we extend this line of research to multi-objective formulations. In…

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A large-scale complex system comprising many, often spatially distributed, dynamical subsystems with partial autonomy and complex interactions are called system of systems. This paper describes an efficient algorithm for model predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Branimir Novoselnik , Vedrana Spudić , Mato Baotić

Making use of predictions is a crucial, but under-explored, area of online algorithms. This paper studies a class of online optimization problems where we have external noisy predictions available. We propose a stochastic prediction error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Niangjun Chen , Anish Agarwal , Adam Wierman , Siddharth Barman , Lachlan L. H. Andrew

We study an online mixed discrete and continuous optimization problem where a decision maker interacts with an unknown environment for a number of $T$ rounds. At each round, the decision maker needs to first jointly choose a discrete and a…

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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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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…

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This work focuses on the setting of dynamic regret in the context of online learning with full information. In particular, we analyze regret bounds with respect to the temporal variability of the loss functions. By assuming that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Nicolò Campolongo , Francesco Orabona

In online convex optimization, the player aims to minimize regret, or the difference between her loss and that of the best fixed decision in hindsight over the entire repeated game. Algorithms that minimize (standard) regret may converge to…

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We study online convex optimization under stochastic sub-gradient observation faults, where we introduce adaptive algorithms with minimax optimal regret guarantees. We specifically study scenarios where our sub-gradient observations can be…

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We introduce an online convex optimization algorithm which utilizes projected subgradient descent with optimal adaptive learning rates. Our method provides second-order minimax-optimal dynamic regret guarantee (i.e. dependent on the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Hakan Gokcesu , Suleyman S. Kozat

We consider online optimization problems with time-varying linear equality constraints. In this framework, an agent makes sequential decisions using only prior information. At every round, the agent suffers an environment-determined loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Jean-Luc Lupien , Antoine Lesage-Landry