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Meta-learning empowers learning systems with the ability to acquire knowledge from multiple tasks, enabling faster adaptation and generalization to new tasks. This review provides a comprehensive technical overview of meta-learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Anna Vettoruzzo , Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia , Joaquin Vanschoren , Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson , KC Santosh

An open challenge in supervised learning is \emph{conceptual drift}: a data point begins as classified according to one label, but over time the notion of that label changes. Beyond linear autoregressive models, transfer and meta learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Amrit Singh Bedi , Alec Koppel , Ketan Rajawat , Brian M. Sadler

This paper investigates the problem of controlling a linear system under possibly unbounded stochastic noise with unknown convex cost functions, known as an online control problem. In contrast to the existing work, which assumes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kaito Ito , Taira Tsuchiya

Lifelong reinforcement learning provides a promising framework for developing versatile agents that can accumulate knowledge over a lifetime of experience and rapidly learn new tasks by building upon prior knowledge. However, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Haitham Bou Ammar , Rasul Tutunov , Eric Eaton

Meta learning recently has been heavily researched and helped advance the contemporary machine learning. However, achieving well-performing meta-learning model requires a large amount of training tasks with high-quality meta-data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jun Shu , Xiang Yuan , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

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

Adaptive gradient algorithms such as ADAGRAD and its variants have gained popularity in the training of deep neural networks. While many works as for adaptive methods have focused on the static regret as a performance metric to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Parvin Nazari , Esmaile Khorram

We consider the problem of controlling a possibly unknown linear dynamical system with adversarial perturbations, adversarially chosen convex loss functions, and partially observed states, known as non-stochastic control. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Max Simchowitz , Karan Singh , Elad Hazan

This paper considers online convex optimization with long term constraints, where constraints can be violated in intermediate rounds, but need to be satisfied in the long run. The cumulative constraint violation is used as the metric to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

Sequential learning with feedback graphs is a natural extension of the multi-armed bandit problem where the problem is equipped with an underlying graph structure that provides additional information - playing an action reveals the losses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tomáš Kocák , Alexandra Carpentier

The fairness-aware online learning framework has emerged as a potent tool within the context of continuous lifelong learning. In this scenario, the learner's objective is to progressively acquire new tasks as they arrive over time, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chen Zhao , Feng Mi , Xintao Wu , Kai Jiang , Latifur Khan , Feng Chen

We investigate online Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with adversarially changing loss functions and known transitions. We choose dynamic regret as the performance measure, defined as the performance difference between the learner and any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Peng Zhao , Long-Fei Li , Zhi-Hua Zhou

This paper addresses the meta-learning problem in sparse linear regression with infinite tasks. We assume that the learner can access several similar tasks. The goal of the learner is to transfer knowledge from the prior tasks to a similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Zhanyu Wang , Jean Honorio

Online learning in arbitrary, and possibly adversarial, environments has been extensively studied in sequential decision-making, and it is closely connected to equilibrium computation in game theory. Most existing online learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mingyang Liu , Yongshan Chen , Zhiyuan Fan , Gabriele Farina , Asuman Ozdaglar , Kaiqing Zhang

Online Reinforcement Learning (RL) is typically framed as the process of minimizing cumulative regret (CR) through interactions with an unknown environment. However, real-world RL applications usually involve a sequence of tasks, and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-28 Ziping Xu , Kelly W. Zhang , Susan A. Murphy

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," is a subfield of machine learning where the goal is to develop models and algorithms that can learn from various tasks and improve their learning process over time. Unlike traditional machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Mouad El Bouchattaoui

In many quantum tasks, there is an unknown quantum object that one wishes to learn. An online strategy for this task involves adaptively refining a hypothesis to reproduce such an object or its measurement statistics. A common evaluation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Akshay Bansal , Ian George , Soumik Ghosh , Jamie Sikora , Alice Zheng

To deal with changing environments, a new performance measure -- adaptive regret, defined as the maximum static regret over any interval, was proposed in online learning. Under the setting of online convex optimization, several algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Lijun Zhang , Wenhao Yang , Guanghui Wang , Wei Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Maintaining predictive accuracy in non-stationary environments requires online model selection to adapt autonomously to unknown distribution shifts. However, existing tuning-free algorithms face a fundamental trade-off between robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kei Takemura , Ryuta Matsuno , Keita Sakuma

In this paper, we revisit the online non-monotone continuous DR-submodular maximization problem over a down-closed convex set, which finds wide real-world applications in the domain of machine learning, economics, and operations research.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Qixin Zhang , Zengde Deng , Zaiyi Chen , Kuangqi Zhou , Haoyuan Hu , Yu Yang