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We study the canonical problem of maximizing a stochastic submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint, where the goal is to select a subset from a ground set of items with uncertain individual performances to maximize their…

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The integration of intermittent and stochastic renewable energy resources requires increased flexibility in the operation of the electric grid. Storage, broadly speaking, provides the flexibility of shifting energy over time; network, on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Junjie Qin , Yinlam Chow , Jiyan Yang , Ram Rajagopal

This paper considers the distributed online convex optimization problem with time-varying constraints over a network of agents. This is a sequential decision making problem with two sequences of arbitrarily varying convex loss and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we develop a novel virtual-queue-based online algorithm for online convex optimization (OCO) problems with long-term and time-varying constraints and conduct a performance analysis with respect to the dynamic regret and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Qingsong Liu , Wenfei Wu , Longbo Huang , Zhixuan Fang

We study \emph{online episodic Constrained Markov Decision Processes} (CMDPs) under both stochastic and adversarial constraints. We provide a novel algorithm whose guarantees greatly improve those of the state-of-the-art best-of-both-worlds…

Consider the following online version of the submodular maximization problem under a matroid constraint: We are given a set of elements over which a matroid is defined. The goal is to incrementally choose a subset that remains independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , R. Ravi , Mohit Singh

The subspace selection problem seeks a subspace that maximizes an objective function under some constraint. This problem includes several important machine learning problems such as the principal component analysis and sparse dictionary…

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We consider the problem of online reinforcement learning for the Stochastic Shortest Path (SSP) problem modeled as an unknown MDP with an absorbing state. We propose PSRL-SSP, a simple posterior sampling-based reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Mehdi Jafarnia-Jahromi , Liyu Chen , Rahul Jain , Haipeng Luo

This paper considers the distributed online convex-concave optimization with constraint sets over a multiagent network, in which each agent autonomously generates a series of decision pairs through a designable mechanism to cooperatively…

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Unconstrained Online Linear Optimization (OLO) is a practical problem setting to study the training of machine learning models. Existing works proposed a number of potential-based algorithms, but in general the design of these potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zhiyu Zhang , Ashok Cutkosky , Ioannis Paschalidis

Flexible demand response (DR) resources can be leveraged to accommodate the stochasticity of some distributed energy resources. This paper develops an online learning approach that continuously estimates price sensitivities of residential…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Robert Mieth , Yury Dvorkin

Online linear programming (OLP) has found broad applications in revenue management and resource allocation. State-of-the-art OLP algorithms achieve low regret by repeatedly solving linear programming (LP) subproblems that incorporate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Jingruo Sun , Wenzhi Gao , Ellen Vitercik , Yinyu Ye

In this paper, we consider online convex optimization (OCO) with time-varying loss and constraint functions. Specifically, the decision maker chooses sequential decisions based only on past information, meantime the loss and constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Haoyang Liu , Xiantao Xiao , Liwei Zhang

We consider online optimization with binary decision variables and convex loss functions. We design a new algorithm, binary online gradient descent (bOGD) and bound its expected dynamic regret. We provide a regret bound that holds for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Joshua A. Taylor , Duncan S. Callaway

With the development of federated learning (FL), mobile devices (MDs) are able to train their local models with private data and sends them to a central server for aggregation, thereby preventing sensitive raw data leakage. In this paper,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shunfeng Chu , Jun Li , Jianxin Wang , Zhe Wang , Ming Ding , Yijin Zang , Yuwen Qian , Wen Chen

We introduce a novel framework for decentralized projection-free optimization, extending projection-free methods to a broader class of upper-linearizable functions. Our approach leverages decentralized optimization techniques with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Yiyang Lu , Mohammad Pedramfar , Vaneet Aggarwal

To efficiently solve online problems with complicated constraints, projection-free algorithms including online frank-wolfe (OFW) and its variants have received significant interest recently. However, in the general case, existing efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of online sparse linear regression (OSLR) where the algorithms are restricted to accessing only $k$ out of $d$ attributes per instance for prediction, which was proved to be NP-hard. Previous work gave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Junfan Li , Shizhong Liao , Zenglin Xu , Liqiang Nie

A variety of large-scale machine learning problems can be cast as instances of constrained submodular maximization. Existing approaches for distributed submodular maximization have a critical drawback: The capacity - number of instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-01 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Andreas Krause

Recent advancement in online optimization and control has provided novel tools to study online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problems, where cost matrices are time-varying and unknown in advance. In this work, we study the online linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour