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This study presents an effective global optimization technique designed for multivariate functions that are H\"older continuous. Unlike traditional methods that construct lower bounding proxy functions, this algorithm employs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

In this work, we propose a computationally efficient algorithm for the problem of global optimization in univariate loss functions. For the performance evaluation, we study the cumulative regret of the algorithm instead of the simple regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

We study the problem of global optimization, where we analyze the performance of the Piyavskii--Shubert algorithm and its variants. For any given time duration $T$, instead of the extensively studied simple regret (which is the difference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

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 the problem of maximizing a non-concave Lipschitz multivariate function over a compact domain by sequentially querying its (possibly perturbed) values. We study a natural algorithm designed originally by Piyavskii and Shubert in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Clément Bouttier , Tommaso Cesari , Mélanie Ducoffe , Sébastien Gerchinovitz

The regret bound of an optimization algorithms is one of the basic criteria for evaluating the performance of the given algorithm. By inspecting the differences between the regret bounds of traditional algorithms and adaptive one, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-07 HyoungSeok Kim , JiHoon Kang , WooMyoung Park , SukHyun Ko , YoonHo Cho , DaeSung Yu , YoungSook Song , JungWon Choi

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving constrained global optimization problems where both the objective function and constraints are one-dimensional non-differentiable multiextremal Lipschitz functions. Multiextremal constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing a convex, Lipschitz function $f$ over a convex, compact set $\xset$ under a stochastic bandit feedback model. In this model, the algorithm is allowed to observe noisy realizations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Alekh Agarwal , Dean P. Foster , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Alexander Rakhlin

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

In this work, we propose a meta algorithm that can solve a multivariate global optimization problem using univariate global optimizers. Although the univariate global optimization does not receive much attention compared to the multivariate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

We consider linear stochastic bandits where the set of actions is an ellipsoid. We provide the first known minimax optimal algorithm for this problem. We first derive a novel information-theoretic lower bound on the regret of any algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-25 Raymond Zhang , Hedi Hadiji , Richard Combes

We define "decision swap regret" which generalizes both prediction for downstream swap regret and omniprediction, and give algorithms for obtaining it for arbitrary multi-dimensional Lipschitz loss functions in online adversarial settings.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jiuyao Lu , Aaron Roth , Mirah Shi

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Nima Eshraghi , Ben Liang

We propose a novel approach for analyzing dynamic regret of first-order constrained online convex optimization algorithms for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth objectives. Crucially, we provide a general analysis that is applicable to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Fabian Jakob , Andrea Iannelli

We give a randomized online algorithm that guarantees near-optimal $\widetilde O(\sqrt T)$ expected swap regret against any sequence of $T$ adaptively chosen Lipschitz convex losses on the unit interval. This improves the previous best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lunjia Hu , Jon Schneider , Yifan Wu

We consider the classical problem of prediction with expert advice. In the fixed-time setting, where the time horizon is known in advance, algorithms that achieve the optimal regret are known when there are two, three, or four experts or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Christopher Liaw , Edwin Perkins , Sikander Randhawa

We study the contextual continuum bandits problem, where the learner sequentially receives a side information vector and has to choose an action in a convex set, minimizing a function associated with the context. The goal is to minimize all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Arya Akhavan , Karim Lounici , Massimiliano Pontil , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We present a new anytime algorithm that achieves near-optimal regret for any instance of finite stochastic partial monitoring. In particular, the new algorithm achieves the minimax regret, within logarithmic factors, for both "easy" and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Gabor Bartok , Navid Zolghadr , Csaba Szepesvari

In this paper, we consider an online optimization process, where the objective functions are not convex (nor concave) but instead belong to a broad class of continuous submodular functions. We first propose a variant of the Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Lin Chen , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

Online bilevel optimization (OBO) has emerged as a powerful framework for many machine learning problems. Prior works have developed several algorithms that minimize the standard bilevel local regret or the window-averaged bilevel local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tingkai Jia , Haiguang Wang , Cheng Chen
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