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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

The constrained version of the standard online convex optimization (OCO) framework, called COCO is considered, where on every round, a convex cost function and a convex constraint function are revealed to the learner after it chooses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Rahul Vaze , Abhishek Sinha

We study high-probability regret bounds for adversarial $K$-armed bandits with time-varying feedback graphs over $T$ rounds. For general strongly observable graphs, we develop an algorithm that achieves the optimal regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Haipeng Luo , Hanghang Tong , Mengxiao Zhang , Yuheng Zhang

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

Linear bandit algorithms yield $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(n\sqrt{T})$ pseudo-regret bounds on compact convex action sets $\mathcal{K}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and two types of structural assumptions lead to better pseudo-regret bounds. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Thomas Kerdreux , Christophe Roux , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Sebastian Pokutta

In online learning problems, exploiting low variance plays an important role in obtaining tight performance guarantees yet is challenging because variances are often not known a priori. Recently, considerable progress has been made by Zhang…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-07 Yeoneung Kim , Insoon Yang , Kwang-Sung Jun

We study the adversarial bandit problem with composite anonymous delayed feedback. In this setting, losses of an action are split into $d$ components, spreading over consecutive rounds after the action is chosen. And in each round, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zongqi Wan , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

We present an efficient algorithm for linear contextual bandits with adversarial losses and stochastic action sets. Our approach reduces this setting to misspecification-robust adversarial linear bandits with fixed action sets. Without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tim van Erven , Jack Mayo , Julia Olkhovskaya , Chen-Yu Wei

We consider the problem of unconstrained online convex optimization (OCO) with sub-exponential noise, a strictly more general problem than the standard OCO. In this setting, the learner receives a subgradient of the loss functions corrupted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Kwang-Sung Jun , Francesco Orabona

To deal with complicated constraints via locally light computations in distributed online learning, a recent study has presented a projection-free algorithm called distributed online conditional gradient (D-OCG), and achieved an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yuanyu Wan , Guanghui Wang , Wei-Wei Tu , Lijun Zhang

In this paper, we develop a novel virtual-queue-based online algorithm for online convex optimization (OCO) problems with long-term and time-varying constraints and conduct a performance analysis with respect to the dynamic regret and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Qingsong Liu , Wenfei Wu , Longbo Huang , Zhixuan Fang

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

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

We consider online optimization with binary decision variables and convex loss functions. We design a new algorithm, binary online gradient descent (bOGD) and bound its expected dynamic regret. We provide a regret bound that holds for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Joshua A. Taylor , Duncan S. Callaway

We consider the problem of strongly-convex online optimization in presence of adversarial delays; in a T-iteration online game, the feedback of the player's query at time t is arbitrarily delayed by an adversary for d_t rounds and delivered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Daniel Khashabi , Kent Quanrud , Amirhossein Taghvaei

The problem of stochastic convex optimization with bandit feedback (in the learning community) or without knowledge of gradients (in the optimization community) has received much attention in recent years, in the form of algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Ohad Shamir

We analyse adversarial bandit convex optimisation with an adversary that is restricted to playing functions of the form $f_t(x) = g_t(\langle x, \theta\rangle)$ for convex $g_t : \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ and unknown $\theta \in \mathbb R^d$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Tor Lattimore

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

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

This paper considers the distributed bandit convex optimization problem with time-varying constraints. In this problem, the global loss function is the average of all the local convex loss functions, which are unknown beforehand. Each agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Kunpeng Zhang , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Lihua Xie , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang