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We study online control of time-varying linear systems with unknown dynamics in the nonstochastic control model. At a high level, we demonstrate that this setting is \emph{qualitatively harder} than that of either unknown time-invariant or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Edgar Minasyan , Paula Gradu , Max Simchowitz , Elad Hazan

The development of online algorithms to track time-varying systems has drawn a lot of attention in the last years, in particular in the framework of online convex optimization. Meanwhile, sparse time-varying optimization has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Sophie M. Fosson

Stochastic and adversarial data are two widely studied settings in online learning. But many optimization tasks are neither i.i.d. nor fully adversarial, which makes it of fundamental interest to get a better theoretical understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sarah Sachs , Hedi Hadiji , Tim van Erven , Cristobal Guzman

We introduce algorithms for online, full-information prediction that are competitive with contextual tree experts of unknown complexity, in both probabilistic and adversarial settings. We show that by incorporating a probabilistic framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Vidya Muthukumar , Mitas Ray , Anant Sahai , Peter L. Bartlett

We provide consistent random algorithms for sequential decision under partial monitoring, i.e. when the decision maker does not observe the outcomes but receives instead random feedback signals. Those algorithms have no internal regret in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Vianney Perchet

The goal of a learner, in standard online learning, is to have the cumulative loss not much larger compared with the best-performing function from some fixed class. Numerous algorithms were shown to have this gap arbitrarily close to zero,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Nina Vaits , Edward Moroshko , Koby Crammer

We study the problem of \emph{dynamic regret minimization} in $K$-armed Dueling Bandits under non-stationary or time varying preferences. This is an online learning setup where the agent chooses a pair of items at each round and observes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Aadirupa Saha , Shubham Gupta

We consider reinforcement learning (RL) in episodic MDPs with adversarial full-information reward feedback and unknown fixed transition kernels. We propose two model-free policy optimization algorithms, POWER and POWER++, and establish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Yingjie Fei , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Qiaomin Xie

In this paper, we investigate regrets of an online semi-proximal alternating direction method of multiplier (Online-spADMM) for solving online linearly constrained convex composite optimization problems. Under mild conditions, we establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yule Zhang , Zehao Xiao , Jia Wu , Liwei Zhang

We study high-probability regret bounds for adversarial $K$-armed bandits with time-varying feedback graphs over $T$ rounds. For general strongly observable graphs, we develop an algorithm that achieves the optimal regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Haipeng Luo , Hanghang Tong , Mengxiao Zhang , Yuheng Zhang

We consider a family of learning strategies for online optimization problems that evolve in continuous time and we show that they lead to no regret. From a more traditional, discrete-time viewpoint, this continuous-time approach allows us…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Joon Kwon , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

Many techniques for online optimization problems involve making decisions based solely on presently available information: fewer works take advantage of potential predictions. In this paper, we discuss the problem of online convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

We consider an online learning process to forecast a sequence of outcomes for nonconvex models. A typical measure to evaluate online learning algorithms is regret but such standard definition of regret is intractable for nonconvex models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Sergul Aydore , Lee Dicker , Dean Foster

We study the adaptive control of an unknown linear system with a quadratic cost function subject to safety constraints on both the states and actions. The challenges of this problem arise from the tension among safety, exploration,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Yingying Li , Subhro Das , Jeff Shamma , Na Li

In citep{Hazan-2008-extract}, the authors showed that the regret of online linear optimization can be bounded by the total variation of the cost vectors. In this paper, we extend this result to general online convex optimization. We first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu

We study online maximization of non-monotone Diminishing-Return(DR)-submodular functions over down-closed convex sets, a regime where existing projection-free online methods suffer from suboptimal regret and limited feedback guarantees. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yiyang Lu , Haresh Jadav , Mohammad Pedramfar , Ranveer Singh , Vaneet Aggarwal

In the random-order model for online learning, the sequence of losses is chosen upfront by an adversary and presented to the learner after a random permutation. Any random-order input is \emph{asymptotically} equivalent to a stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Martino Bernasconi , Andrea Celli , Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Federico Fusco , Stefano Leonardi , Matteo Russo

Online convex optimization (OCO) with time-varying constraints is a critical framework for sequential decision-making in dynamic networked systems, where learners must minimize cumulative loss while satisfying regions of feasibility that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiufeng Liu , Qian Chen , Zhijin Wang , Ruyu Liu

We study online convex optimization with constraints consisting of multiple functional constraints and a relatively simple constraint set, such as a Euclidean ball. As enforcing the constraints at each time step through projections is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Shuang Qiu , Xiaohan Wei , Mladen Kolar