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We consider the problem of online learning in Linear Quadratic Control systems whose state transition and state-action transition matrices $A$ and $B$ may be initially unknown. We devise an online learning algorithm and provide guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutiere

The design of effective online caching policies is an increasingly important problem for content distribution networks, online social networks and edge computing services, among other areas. This paper proposes a new algorithmic toolbox for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Naram Mhaisen , George Iosifidis , Douglas Leith

This paper considers online convex optimization (OCO) with stochastic constraints, which generalizes Zinkevich's OCO over a known simple fixed set by introducing multiple stochastic functional constraints that are i.i.d. generated at each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely , Xiaohan Wei

We consider the problem of online learning where the sequence of actions played by the learner must adhere to an unknown safety constraint at every round. The goal is to minimize regret with respect to the best safe action in hindsight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Karthik Sridharan , Seung Won Wilson Yoo

To accommodate low latency and computation-intensive services, such as the Internet-of-Things (IoT), 5G networks are expected to have cloud and edge computing capabilities. To this end, we consider a generic network setup where devices,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Saad Kriouile , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Theodoros Giannakas

We study online resource allocation among N interacting modules over T rounds. Unlike standard online optimization, costs are endogenous: they depend on the full allocation vector through an interaction matrix W encoding pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Rui Chai

Online learning has traditionally focused on the expected rewards. In this paper, a risk-averse online learning problem under the performance measure of the mean-variance of the rewards is studied. Both the bandit and full information…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-15 Sattar Vakili , Alexis Boukouvalas , Qing Zhao

Organizations routinely make strategic budget allocations under operational constraints, but often lack a principled way to assess whether realized allocations were close to the best feasible choices in hindsight. We present a retrospective…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-01 Nilavra Pathak , Olivier Jeunen , Eric Lambert

We study the problem of online learning and online regret minimization when samples are drawn from a general unknown non-stationary process. We introduce the concept of a dynamic changing process with cost $K$, where the conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Changlong Wu , Ananth Grama , Wojciech Szpankowski

This paper studies the impact of limited switches on resource-constrained dynamic pricing with demand learning. We focus on the classical price-based blind network revenue management problem and extend our results to the bandits with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 David Simchi-Levi , Yunzong Xu , Jinglong Zhao

We consider online convex optimization (OCO) with multi-slot feedback delay, where an agent makes a sequence of online decisions to minimize the accumulation of time-varying convex loss functions, subject to short-term and long-term…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Juncheng Wang , Ben Liang , Min Dong , Gary Boudreau , Hatem Abou-zeid

Motivated by practical federated learning settings where clients may not be always available, we investigate a variant of distributed online optimization where agents are active with a known probability $p$ at each time step, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Juliette Achddou , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Hao Qiu

We introduce a general model of resource allocation with customer choice. In this model, there are multiple resources that are available over a finite horizon. The resources are non-replenishable and perishable. Each unit of a resource can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Guillermo Gallego , Anran Li , Van-Anh Truong , Xinshang Wang

We study an online contextual decision-making problem with resource constraints. At each time period, the decision-maker first predicts a reward vector and resource consumption matrix based on a given context vector and then solves a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Heyuan Liu , Paul Grigas

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

We study a fundamental model of resource allocation in which a finite number of resources must be assigned in an online manner to a heterogeneous stream of customers. The customers arrive randomly over time according to known stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Clifford Stein , Van-Anh Truong , Xinshang Wang

We study a variant of online convex optimization where the player is permitted to switch decisions at most $S$ times in expectation throughout $T$ rounds. Similar problems have been addressed in prior work for the discrete decision set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren

We consider the problem of online allocation (matching and assortments) of reusable resources where customers arrive sequentially in an adversarial fashion and allocated resources are used or rented for a stochastic duration that is drawn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Vineet Goyal , Garud Iyengar , Rajan Udwani

We consider the classical uncoded caching problem from an online learning point-of-view. A cache of limited storage capacity can hold $C$ files at a time from a large catalog. A user requests an arbitrary file from the catalog at each time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Samrat Mukhopadhyay , Abhishek Sinha

In this paper, we study a class of revenue management problems where the decision maker aims to maximize the total revenue subject to budget constraints on multiple type of resources over a finite horizon. At each time, a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Yinyu Ye