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In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed online convex optimization, where a network of local agents aim to jointly optimize a convex function over a period of multiple time steps. The agents do not have any information about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Yan Zhang , Robert J. Ravier , Michael M. Zavlanos , Vahid Tarokh

Nonsmooth composite optimization with orthogonality constraints has a wide range of applications in statistical learning and data science. However, this problem is challenging due to its nonsmooth objective and computationally expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ganzhao Yuan

In Distributed optimization and Learning, and even more in the modern framework of federated learning, communication, which is slow and costly, is critical. We introduce LoCoDL, a communication-efficient algorithm that leverages the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Laurent Condat , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

In online convex optimization (OCO), Lipschitz continuity of the functions is commonly assumed in order to obtain sublinear regret. Moreover, many algorithms have only logarithmic regret when these functions are also strongly convex.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihan Zhou , Victor S. Portella , Mark Schmidt , Nicholas J. A. Harvey

We study Stochastic Online Correlated Selection (SOCS), a family of online rounding algorithms for Non-IID Stochastic Online Submodular Welfare Maximization and special cases such as Online Stochastic Matching, Stochastic AdWords, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ziyun Chen , Zhiyi Huang , Enze Sun

By offloading intensive computation tasks to the edge cloud located at the cellular base stations, mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been regarded as a promising means to accomplish the ambitious millisecond-scale end-to-end…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Yinghui He

In the field of online sequential decision-making, we address the problem with delays utilizing the framework of online convex optimization (OCO), where the feedback of a decision can arrive with an unknown delay. Unlike previous research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Ping Wu , Heyan Huang , Zhengyang Liu

Voltage control generally requires accurate information about the grid's topology in order to guarantee network stability. However, accurate topology identification is challenging for existing methods, especially as the grid is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Christopher Yeh , Jing Yu , Yuanyuan Shi , Adam Wierman

This paper considers online convex optimization over a complicated constraint set, which typically consists of multiple functional constraints and a set constraint. The conventional online projection algorithm (Zinkevich, 2003) can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely

This paper develops and analyzes feedback-based online optimization methods to regulate the output of a linear time-invariant (LTI) dynamical system to the optimal solution of a time-varying convex optimization problem. The design of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Marcello Colombino , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Andrey Bernstein

This paper proposes and analyzes a communication-efficient distributed optimization framework for general nonconvex nonsmooth signal processing and machine learning problems under an asynchronous protocol. At each iteration, worker machines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jineng Ren , Jarvis Haupt

We study the task of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private online convex optimization (OCO). In the online setting, the release of each distinct decision or iterate carries with it the potential for privacy loss. This problem has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Naman Agarwal , Satyen Kale , Karan Singh , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

We present an approach towards convex optimization that relies on a novel scheme which converts online adaptive algorithms into offline methods. In the offline optimization setting, our derived methods are shown to obtain favourable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Kfir Y. Levy

Sparse regression has been a popular approach to perform variable selection and enhance the prediction accuracy and interpretability of the resulting statistical model. Existing approaches focus on offline regularized regression, while the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-03 Shuoguang Yang , Yuhao Yan , Xiuneng Zhu , Qiang Sun

We give an algorithmic framework for minimizing general convex objectives (that are differentiable and monotone non-decreasing) over a set of covering constraints that arrive online. This substantially extends previous work on online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Yossi Azar , Ilan Reuven Cohen , Debmalya Panigrahi

In this paper, a short-term load forecasting approach based network reconfiguration is proposed in a parallel manner. Specifically, a support vector regression (SVR) based short-term load forecasting approach is designed to provide an…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Yi Gu , Huaiguang Jiang , Jun Jason Zhang , Yingchen Zhang , Eduard Muljadi , Francisco J. Solis

We develop a reduction-based framework for online learning with delayed feedback that recovers and improves upon existing results for both first-order and bandit convex optimization. Our approach introduces a continuous-time model under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alexander Ryabchenko , Idan Attias , Daniel M. Roy

We study online prediction under distribution shift, where inputs arrive chronologically and outcomes are revealed only after prediction. In this setting, predictors must remain stable in quiet regimes yet adapt when regimes shift, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yutong Wang , Yannig Goude , Qiwei Yao

Inspired by the recent successes of Inverse Optimization (IO) across various application domains, we propose a novel offline Reinforcement Learning (ORL) algorithm for continuous state and action spaces, leveraging the convex loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ioannis Dimanidis , Tolga Ok , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

As distributed learning applications such as Federated Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Edge Computing grow, it is critical to address the shortcomings of such technologies from a theoretical perspective. As an abstraction, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani