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In online convex optimization (OCO), Lipschitz continuity of the functions is commonly assumed in order to obtain sublinear regret. Moreover, many algorithms have only logarithmic regret when these functions are also strongly convex.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihan Zhou , Victor S. Portella , Mark Schmidt , Nicholas J. A. Harvey

We consider a generalization of the celebrated Online Convex Optimization (OCO) framework with adversarial online constraints. In this problem, an online learner interacts with an adversary sequentially over multiple rounds. At the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Subhamon Supantha , Abhishek Sinha

Although online convex optimization (OCO) under arbitrary delays has received increasing attention recently, previous studies focus on stationary environments with the goal of minimizing static regret. In this paper, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yuanyu Wan , Chang Yao , Yitao Ma , Mingli Song , Lijun Zhang

In this paper, we broaden the horizon of online convex optimization (OCO), and consider multi-objective OCO, where there are $K$ distinct loss function sequences, and an algorithm has to choose its action at time $t$, before the $K$ loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rahul Vaze , Sumiran Mishra

Motivated by alternating learning dynamics in two-player games, a recent work by Cevher et al.(2024) shows that $o(\sqrt{T})$ alternating regret is possible for any $T$-round adversarial Online Linear Optimization (OLO) problem, and left as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Soumita Hait , Ping Li , Haipeng Luo , Mengxiao Zhang

We investigate online convex optimization in non-stationary environments and choose 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 2024-04-09 Peng Zhao , Yu-Jie Zhang , Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

The computational bottleneck in applying online learning to massive data sets is usually the projection step. We present efficient online learning algorithms that eschew projections in favor of much more efficient linear optimization steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Elad Hazan , Satyen Kale

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

In this paper, we study dynamic regret in unconstrained online convex optimization (OCO) with movement costs. Specifically, we generalize the standard setting by allowing the movement cost coefficients $\lambda_t$ to vary arbitrarily over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Emmanuel Esposito , Andrew Jacobsen , Hao Qiu , Mengxiao Zhang

A well-studied generalization of the standard online convex optimization (OCO) is constrained online convex optimization (COCO). In COCO, on every round, a convex cost function and a convex constraint function are revealed to the learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Abhishek Sinha , Rahul Vaze

Online convex optimization (OCO) is a widely used framework in online learning. In each round, the learner chooses a decision in a convex set and an adversary chooses a convex loss function, and then the learner suffers the loss associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Raunak Kumar , Sarah Dean , Robert Kleinberg

We investigate decentralized online convex optimization (D-OCO), in which a set of local learners are required to minimize a sequence of global loss functions using only local computations and communications. Previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuanyu Wan , Tong Wei , Bo Xue , Mingli Song , Lijun Zhang

Online bilevel optimization (OBO) is a powerful framework for machine learning problems where both outer and inner objectives evolve over time, requiring dynamic updates. Current OBO approaches rely on deterministic \textit{window-smoothed}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Parvin Nazari , Bojian Hou , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Li Shen , George Michailidis

Some of the most compelling applications of online convex optimization, including online prediction and classification, are unconstrained: the natural feasible set is R^n. Existing algorithms fail to achieve sub-linear regret in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Matthew Streeter , H. Brendan McMahan

Projection-free optimization algorithms, which are mostly based on the classical Frank-Wolfe method, have gained significant interest in the machine learning community in recent years due to their ability to handle convex constraints that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dan Garber , Ben Kretzu

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 revisit the problem of \textit{online linear optimization} in case the set of feasible actions is accessible through an approximated linear optimization oracle with a factor $\alpha$ multiplicative approximation guarantee. This setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dan Garber

We present an adaptive online gradient descent algorithm to solve online convex optimization problems with long-term constraints , which are constraints that need to be satisfied when accumulated over a finite number of rounds T , but can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-24 Rodolphe Jenatton , Jim Huang , Cédric Archambeau

Non-stationary online learning has drawn much attention in recent years. In particular, dynamic regret and adaptive regret are proposed as two principled performance measures for online convex optimization in non-stationary environments. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Peng Zhao , Yan-Feng Xie , Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Universal online learning aims to achieve optimal regret guarantees without requiring prior knowledge of the curvature of online functions. Existing methods have established minimax-optimal regret bounds for universal online learning, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Peng Zhao , Yu-Hu Yan , Hang Yu , Zhi-Hua Zhou