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Online convex optimization (OCO) with time-varying constraints is a critical framework for sequential decision-making in dynamic networked systems, where learners must minimize cumulative loss while satisfying regions of feasibility that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiufeng Liu , Qian Chen , Zhijin Wang , Ruyu Liu

Saddle-point optimization problems are an important class of optimization problems with applications to game theory, multi-agent reinforcement learning and machine learning. A majority of the rich literature available for saddle-point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Abhishek Roy , Yifang Chen , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Prasant Mohapatra

This paper studies online optimization from a high-level unified theoretical perspective. We not only generalize both Optimistic-DA and Optimistic-MD in normed vector space, but also unify their analysis methods for dynamic regret. Regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Qing-xin Meng , Jian-wei Liu

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed online convex optimization, where a group of agents collaborate to track the global minimizers of a sum of time-varying objective functions in an online manner. Specifically, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Yan Zhang , Robert J. Ravier , Vahid Tarokh , Michael M. Zavlanos

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

Motivated by energy management for micro-grids, we study convex optimization problems with uncertainty in the objective function and sequential decision making. To solve these problems, we propose a new framework called ``Online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Martijn H. H. Schoot Uiterkamp , Marco E. T. Gerards , Johann L. Hurink

A new algorithm for regret minimization in online convex optimization is described. The regret of the algorithm after $T$ time periods is $O(\sqrt{T \log T})$ - which is the minimum possible up to a logarithmic term. In addition, the new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Elad Hazan , Nimrod Megiddo

We consider online convex optimization with time-varying constraints and conduct performance analysis using two stringent metrics: dynamic regret with respect to the online solution benchmark, and hard constraint violation that does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Juncheng Wang , Bingjie Yan , Yituo Liu

We investigate online convex optimization in non-stationary environments and choose the 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 2020-12-01 Peng Zhao , Yu-Jie Zhang , Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Learning and computation of equilibria are central problems in game theory, theory of computation, and artificial intelligence. In this work, we introduce proximal regret, a new notion of regret based on proximal operators that lies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yang Cai , Constantinos Daskalakis , Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Weiqiang Zheng

This paper describes a new online convex optimization method which incorporates a family of candidate dynamical models and establishes novel tracking regret bounds that scale with the comparator's deviation from the best dynamical model in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-08 Eric C. Hall , Rebecca M. Willett

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

This paper studies bandit convex optimization in non-stationary environments with two-point feedback, using dynamic regret as the performance measure. We propose an algorithm based on bandit mirror descent that extends naturally to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chang He , Bo Jiang , Shuzhong Zhang

In online convex optimization (OCO), a decision-maker is confronted with an unknown environment and seeks to play an optimal sequence of decisions on a short time-scale using only past information. Recent advances in second-order OCO…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jean-Luc Lupien , Yuen-Man Pun , Youssef Diouane , Iman Shames , Antoine Lesage-Landry

Distributed online convex optimization (D-OCO) is a powerful paradigm for modeling distributed scenarios with streaming data. However, the communication cost between local learners and the central server is substantial in large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sifan Yang , Dan-Yue Li , Lijun Zhang

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

We study Smoothed Online Convex Optimization, a version of online convex optimization where the learner incurs a penalty for changing her actions between rounds. Given a $\Omega(\sqrt{d})$ lower bound on the competitive ratio of any online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Niangjun Chen , Gautam Goel , Adam Wierman

In this paper, we introduce a new projection-free algorithm for Online Convex Optimization (OCO) with a state-of-the-art regret guarantee among separation-based algorithms. Existing projection-free methods based on the classical Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zakaria Mhammedi

We study monotone submodular maximization under general matroid constraints in the online setting. We prove that online optimization of a large class of submodular functions, namely, weighted threshold potential functions, reduces to online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tareq Si Salem , Gözde Özcan , Iasonas Nikolaou , Evimaria Terzi , Stratis Ioannidis

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