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We study the online saddle point problem, an online learning problem where at each iteration a pair of actions need to be chosen without knowledge of the current and future (convex-concave) payoff functions. The objective is to minimize the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-07 Adrian Rivera , He Wang , Huan Xu

We address the problem of stochastic combinatorial semi-bandits, where a player selects among P actions from the power set of a set containing d base items. Adaptivity to the problem's structure is essential in order to obtain optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Julien Zhou , Pierre Gaillard , Thibaud Rahier , Houssam Zenati , Julyan Arbel

We study numerical optimisation algorithms that use zeroth-order information to minimise time-varying geodesically-convex cost functions on Riemannian manifolds. In the Euclidean setting, zeroth-order algorithms have received a lot of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Alejandro I. Maass , Chris Manzie , Dragan Nesic , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

In this paper we propose a framework for solving constrained online convex optimization problem. Our motivation stems from the observation that most algorithms proposed for online convex optimization require a projection onto the convex set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

In this paper, we consider the problem of sleeping bandits with stochastic action sets and adversarial rewards. In this setting, in contrast to most work in bandits, the actions may not be available at all times. For instance, some products…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aadirupa Saha , Pierre Gaillard , Michal Valko

The trade-off between regret and computational cost is a fundamental problem for online kernel regression, and previous algorithms worked on the trade-off can not keep optimal regret bounds at a sublinear computational complexity. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Junfan Li , Shizhong Liao

We present the first high-probability optimal regret bound for a policy optimization technique applied to the problem of stochastic contextual multi-armed bandit (CMAB) with general offline function approximation. Our algorithm is both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Orin Levy , Yishay Mansour

We consider the decision-making framework of online convex optimization with a very large number of experts. This setting is ubiquitous in contextual and reinforcement learning problems, where the size of the policy class renders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Elad Hazan , Karan Singh

This paper presents new projection-free algorithms for Online Convex Optimization (OCO) over a convex domain $\mathcal{K} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. Classical OCO algorithms (such as Online Gradient Descent) typically need to perform Euclidean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Khashayar Gatmiry , Zakaria Mhammedi

This paper studies kernelized bandits (also known as Gaussian process bandits) in an adversarial environment, where the reward functions in a known reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) may be adversarially chosen at each round. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shogo Iwazaki

In online learning, a decision maker repeatedly selects one of a set of actions, with the goal of minimizing the overall loss incurred. Following the recent line of research on algorithms endowed with additional predictive features, we…

This paper addresses Online Convex Optimization (OCO) problems where the constraints have additive perturbations that (i) vary over time and (ii) are not known at the time to make a decision. Perturbations may not be i.i.d. generated and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Víctor Valls , George Iosifidis , Douglas J. Leith , Leandros Tassiulas

In this paper, we revisit the online non-monotone continuous DR-submodular maximization problem over a down-closed convex set, which finds wide real-world applications in the domain of machine learning, economics, and operations research.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Qixin Zhang , Zengde Deng , Zaiyi Chen , Kuangqi Zhou , Haoyuan Hu , Yu Yang

We consider online learning with feedback graphs, a sequential decision-making framework where the learner's feedback is determined by a directed graph over the action set. We present a computationally efficient algorithm for learning in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Chloé Rouyer , Dirk van der Hoeven , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yevgeny Seldin

We consider the problem of online combinatorial optimization under semi-bandit feedback. The goal of the learner is to sequentially select its actions from a combinatorial decision set so as to minimize its cumulative loss. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Gergely Neu , Gábor Bartók

We consider a variant of the classical online linear optimization problem in which at every step, the online player receives a "hint" vector before choosing the action for that round. Rather surprisingly, it was shown that if the hint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Aditya Bhaskara , Ashok Cutkosky , Ravi Kumar , Manish Purohit

Optimization theory has been widely studied in academia and finds a large variety of applications in industry. The different optimization models in their discrete and/or continuous settings have catered to a rich source of research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Debbie Lim , Joao F. Doriguello , Patrick Rebentrost

Online gradient descent (OGD) is well known to be doubly optimal under strong convexity or monotonicity assumptions: (1) in the single-agent setting, it achieves an optimal regret of $\Theta(\log T)$ for strongly convex cost functions; and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin , Zhengyuan Zhou

We study the problem of expert advice under partial bandit feedback setting and create a sequential minimax optimal algorithm. Our algorithm works with a more general partial monitoring setting, where, in contrast to the classical bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

We consider online learning problems under a partial observability model capturing situations where the information conveyed to the learner is between full information and bandit feedback. In the simplest variant, we assume that in addition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tomas Kocak , Gergely Neu , Michal Valko , Remi Munos