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In this paper, online game is studied, where at each time, a group of players aim at selfishly minimizing their own time-varying cost function simultaneously subject to time-varying coupled constraints and local feasible set constraints.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Long Wang

Matching problems with group-fairness constraints and diversity constraints have numerous applications such as in allocation problems, committee selection, school choice, etc. Moreover, online matching problems have lots of applications in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Anand Louis , Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Govind S. Sankar

The fast growth of communication technology within the concept of smart grids can provide data and control signals from/to all consumers in an online fashion. This could foster more participation for end-user customers. These types of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Arman Alahyari , David Pozo

Decision-makers often have access to machine-learned predictions about future demand that can help guide online resource allocation decisions. However, such predictions may be inaccurate. We develop a framework for online resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Negin Golrezaei , Patrick Jaillet , Zijie Zhou

This article investigates the problem of controlling linear time-invariant systems subject to time-varying and a priori unknown cost functions, state and input constraints, and exogenous disturbances. We combine the online convex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Marko Nonhoff , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Matthias A. Müller

We study online learning problems in which a decision maker has to take a sequence of decisions subject to $m$ long-term constraints. The goal of the decision maker is to maximize their total reward, while at the same time achieving small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Alberto Marchesi , Giulia Romano , Nicola Gatti

We study Online Convex Optimization (OCO) with adversarial constraints, where an online algorithm must make sequential decisions to minimize both convex loss functions and cumulative constraint violations. We focus on a setting where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Jordan Lekeufack , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper, we address tracking of a time-varying parameter with unknown dynamics. We formalize the problem as an instance of online optimization in a dynamic setting. Using online gradient descent, we propose a method that sequentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Aryan Mokhtari , Shahin Shahrampour , Ali Jadbabaie , Alejandro Ribeiro

A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

A novel Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader type algorithm is proposed and analyzed for solving general long-term constrained optimization problems in an online manner, where the target and constraint functions are oblivious adversarially generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Shijie Pan , Jianyu Xu , Wenjie Huang

Motivated by the stringent safety requirements that are often present in real-world applications, we study a safe online convex optimization setting where the player needs to simultaneously achieve sublinear regret and zero constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Spencer Hutchinson , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

We investigate the problem of Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) in which requests are pairwise matched in an online fashion with the objective to minimize the sum of space cost and time cost. Though linear-MPMD (i.e., time cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xingwu Liu , Zhida Pan , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

This paper provides threshold policies with tight guarantees for online selection with convex cost (OSCC). In OSCC, a seller wants to sell some asset to a sequence of buyers with the goal of maximizing her profit. The seller can produce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Xiaoqi Tan , Siyuan Yu , Raouf Boutaba , Alberto Leon-Garcia

We consider an online load balancing problem and its extensions in the framework of repeated games. On each round, the player chooses a distribution (task allocation) over $K$ servers, and then the environment reveals the load of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yaxiong Liu , Kohei Hatano , Eiji Takimoto

We consider online resource allocation problems where given a set of requests our goal is to select a subset that maximizes a value minus cost type of objective function. Requests are presented online in random order, and each request…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-07 Siddharth Barman , Seeun Umboh , Shuchi Chawla , David Malec

In this work, we extend the convex bodies chasing problem (CBC) to an adversarial setting, where an agent (the Player) is tasked with chasing a sequence of convex bodies generated adversarially by another agent (the Opponent). The Player…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Yue Guan , Longxu Pan , Daigo Shishika , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We discuss multi-task online learning when a decision maker has to deal simultaneously with M tasks. The tasks are related, which is modeled by imposing that the M-tuple of actions taken by the decision maker needs to satisfy certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-03-27 Gabor Lugosi , Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Gilles Stoltz

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We consider the online convex optimization problem. In the setting of arbitrary sequences and finite set of parameters, we establish a new fast-rate quantile regret bound. Then we investigate the optimization into the L1-ball by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Pierre Gaillard , Olivier Wintenberger

This paper considers the problem of online optimization where the objective function is time-varying. In particular, we extend coordinate descent type algorithms to the online case, where the objective function varies after a finite number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Yankai Lin , Iman Shames , Dragan Nešić