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We study online convex optimization on $\ell_p$-balls in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for $p > 2$. While always sub-linear, the optimal regret exhibits a shift between the high-dimensional setting ($d > T$), when the dimension $d$ is greater than the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Emmeran Johnson , David Martínez-Rubio , Ciara Pike-Burke , Patrick Rebeschini

The linear bandit problem has been studied for many years in both stochastic and adversarial settings. Designing an algorithm that can optimize the environment without knowing the loss type attracts lots of interest. \citet{LeeLWZ021}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fang Kong , Canzhe Zhao , Shuai Li

We consider the nonstochastic multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem with agents collaborating via a communication network with delays. We show a lower bound for individual regret of all agents. We show that with suitable regularizers and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-24 Jialin Yi , Milan Vojnović

Recently, much work has been done on extending the scope of online learning and incremental stochastic optimization algorithms. In this paper we contribute to this effort in two ways: First, based on a new regret decomposition and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Pooria Joulani , András György , Csaba Szepesvári

We study the problem of adaptively controlling a known discrete-time nonlinear system subject to unmodeled disturbances. We prove the first finite-time regret bounds for adaptive nonlinear control with matched uncertainty in the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Nicholas M. Boffi , Stephen Tu , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

Adaptivity to the difficulties of a problem is a key property in sequential decision-making problems to broaden the applicability of algorithms. Follow-the-regularized-leader (FTRL) has recently emerged as one of the most promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Taira Tsuchiya , Shinji Ito , Junya Honda

We consider the problem of controlling an unknown linear dynamical system under adversarially changing convex costs and full feedback of both the state and cost function. We present the first computationally-efficient algorithm that attains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Asaf Cassel , Alon Cohen , Tomer Koren

We design differentially private algorithms for the problem of prediction with expert advice under dynamic regret, also known as tracking the best expert. Our work addresses three natural types of adversaries, stochastic with shifting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Aadirupa Saha , Vinod Raman , Hilal Asi

In many online sequential decision-making scenarios, a learner's choices affect not just their current costs but also the future ones. In this work, we look at one particular case of such a situation where the costs depend on the time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Vijeth Hebbar , Cedric Langbort

This paper considers the problem of real-time control and learning in dynamic systems subjected to parametric uncertainties. We propose a combination of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based policy in the outer loop suitably chosen to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Anuradha M. Annaswamy , Anubhav Guha , Yingnan Cui , Sunbochen Tang , Peter A. Fisher , Joseph E. Gaudio

We consider the fundamental problem of online control of a linear dynamical system from two different viewpoints: regret minimization and competitive analysis. We prove that the optimal competitive policy is well-approximated by a convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Gautam Goel , Naman Agarwal , Karan Singh , Elad Hazan

This paper focuses on adaptive control of the discrete-time linear quadratic regulator (adaptive LQR). Recent literature has made significant contributions in proving non-asymptotic convergence rates, but existing approaches have a few…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

This paper deals with the tracking control problem for a very simple class of unknown nonlinear systems. In this paper, we presents a design strategy for tracking control of time-varying state constrained nonlinear systems in an adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Pankaj Kumar Mishra , Nishchal K Verma

This paper studies the control of safety-critical dynamical systems in the presence of adversarial disturbances. We seek to synthesize state-feedback controllers to minimize a cost incurred due to the disturbance, while respecting a safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Baicen Xiao , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

We study online control for continuous-time linear systems with finite sampling rates, where the objective is to design an online procedure that learns under non-stochastic noise and performs comparably to a fixed optimal linear controller.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jingwei Li , Jing Dong , Can Chang , Baoxiang Wang , Jingzhao Zhang

We consider the online control problem with an unknown linear dynamical system in the presence of adversarial perturbations and adversarial convex loss functions. Although the problem is widely studied in model-based control, it remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Zishun Liu , Yongxin Chen

We consider control in linear time-varying dynamical systems from the perspective of regret minimization. Unlike most prior work in this area, we focus on the problem of designing an online controller which minimizes regret against the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Gautam Goel , Babak Hassibi

We study the control of a linear dynamical system with adversarial disturbances (as opposed to statistical noise). The objective we consider is one of regret: we desire an online control procedure that can do nearly as well as that of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Naman Agarwal , Brian Bullins , Elad Hazan , Sham M. Kakade , Karan Singh

Much of the work in online learning focuses on the study of sublinear upper bounds on the regret. In this work, we initiate the study of best-case lower bounds in online convex optimization, wherein we bound the largest improvement an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Cristóbal Guzmán , Nishant A. Mehta , Ali Mortazavi

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