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In this paper, we investigate the framework of Online Convex Optimization (OCO) for online learning. OCO offers a very powerful online learning framework for many applications. In this context, we study a specific framework of OCO called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Deepan Muthirayan , Jianjun Yuan , Pramod P. Khargonekar

We study a generalization of the Online Convex Optimization (OCO) framework with time-varying adversarial constraints. In this setting, at each round, the learner selects an action from a convex decision set $X$, after which both a convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Dhruv Sarkar , Aprameyo Chakrabartty , Subhamon Supantha , Palash Dey , Abhishek Sinha

We study online learning with bandit feedback (i.e. learner has access to only zeroth-order oracle) where cost/reward functions $\f_t$ admit a "pseudo-1d" structure, i.e. $\f_t(\w) = \loss_t(\pred_t(\w))$ where the output of $\pred_t$ is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Aadirupa Saha , Nagarajan Natarajan , Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain

In this paper we propose a framework for solving constrained online convex optimization problem. Our motivation stems from the observation that most algorithms proposed for online convex optimization require a projection onto the convex set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

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

We consider the problem of online learning where the sequence of actions played by the learner must adhere to an unknown safety constraint at every round. The goal is to minimize regret with respect to the best safe action in hindsight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Karthik Sridharan , Seung Won Wilson Yoo

We present the first theoretical guarantees for zero constraint violation in Online Convex Optimization (OCO) across all rounds, addressing dynamic constraint changes. Unlike existing approaches in constrained OCO, which allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Bassel Hamoud , Ilnura Usmanova , Kfir Y. Levy

We study Constrained Online Convex Optimization (COCO), where a learner chooses actions iteratively, observes both unanticipated convex loss and convex constraint, and accumulates loss while incurring penalties for constraint violations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ricardo N. Ferreira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares

In this paper, online convex optimization is applied to the problem of controlling linear dynamical systems. An algorithm similar to online gradient descent, which can handle time-varying and unknown cost functions, is proposed. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Marko Nonhoff , Matthias A. Müller

Reflecting the greater significance of recent history over the distant past in non-stationary environments, $\lambda$-discounted regret has been introduced in online convex optimization (OCO) to gracefully forget past data as new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenhao Yang , Sifan Yang , Lijun Zhang

In this paper, we investigate an online prediction strategy named as Discounted-Normal-Predictor (Kapralov and Panigrahy, 2010) for smoothed online convex optimization (SOCO), in which the learner needs to minimize not only the hitting cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Lijun Zhang , Wei Jiang , Jinfeng Yi , Tianbao Yang

This paper considers online convex optimization (OCO) with stochastic constraints, which generalizes Zinkevich's OCO over a known simple fixed set by introducing multiple stochastic functional constraints that are i.i.d. generated at each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely , Xiaohan Wei

We revisit the challenge of designing online algorithms for the bandit convex optimization problem (BCO) which are also scalable to high dimensional problems. Hence, we consider algorithms that are \textit{projection-free}, i.e., based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Dan Garber , Ben Kretzu

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

We study Online Convex Optimization with adversarial constraints (COCO). At each round a learner selects an action from a convex decision set and then an adversary reveals a convex cost and a convex constraint function. The goal of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Abhishek Sinha , Rahul Vaze

We consider distributed online convex optimization problems, where the distributed system consists of various computing units connected through a time-varying communication graph. In each time step, each computing unit selects a constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Deming Yuan , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

In the past few years, Online Convex Optimization (OCO) has received notable attention in the control literature thanks to its flexible real-time nature and powerful performance guarantees. In this paper, we propose new step-size rules and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro , Arman Sharifi Kolarijani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We consider a smoothed online convex optimization (SOCO) problem with predictions, where the learner has access to a finite lookahead window of time-varying stage costs, but suffers a switching cost for changing its actions at each stage.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Spandan Senapati , Ashwin Shenai , Ketan Rajawat

This paper studies the problem of controlling linear dynamical systems subject to point-wise-in-time constraints. We present an algorithm similar to online gradient descent, that can handle time-varying and a priori unknown convex cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Marko Nonhoff , Matthias A. Müller

We study Constrained Online Convex Optimization with Memory (COCO-M), where both the loss and the constraints depend on a finite window of past decisions made by the learner. This setting extends the previously studied unconstrained online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Mohammed Abdullah , George Iosifidis , Salah Eddine Elayoubi , Tijani Chahed