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We design new differentially private algorithms for the problems of adversarial bandits and bandits with expert advice. For adversarial bandits, we give a simple and efficient conversion of any non-private bandit algorithm to a private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hilal Asi , Vinod Raman , Kunal Talwar

Recent years have witnessed a huge demand for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in wireless edge networks to assist individuals with real-time services. Owing to the practical setting and privacy preservation of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shuai Wang , Yanqing Xu , Yanyi Yuan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e.,small perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. While adversarial training has become the primary defense strategy, most studies focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Lilin Zhang , Yimo Guo , Yue Li , Jiancheng Shi , Xianggen Liu

It is becoming more common that adversary attacks consist of more than a standalone executable or script. Often, evidence of an attack includes conspicuous process heritage that may be ignored by traditional static machine learning models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Bobby Filar , David French

This paper addresses the poor finite-horizon performance of existing online \emph{restless bandit} (RB) algorithms, which stems from the prohibitive sample complexity of learning a full \emph{Markov decision process} (MDP) for each agent.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiamin Xu , Ivan Nazarov , Aditya Rastogi , África Periáñez , Kyra Gan

Thanks to the power of representation learning, neural contextual bandit algorithms demonstrate remarkable performance improvement against their classical counterparts. But because their exploration has to be performed in the entire neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yiling Jia , Weitong Zhang , Dongruo Zhou , Quanquan Gu , Hongning Wang

We study reinforcement learning with linear function approximation, unknown transition, and adversarial losses in the bandit feedback setting. Specifically, we focus on linear mixture MDPs whose transition kernel is a linear mixture model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Long-Fei Li , Peng Zhao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

While numerous works have focused on devising efficient algorithms for reinforcement learning (RL) with uniformly bounded rewards, it remains an open question whether sample or time-efficient algorithms for RL with large state-action space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jiayi Huang , Han Zhong , Liwei Wang , Lin F. Yang

In this study, we explore a collaborative multi-agent stochastic linear bandit setting involving a network of $N$ agents that communicate locally to minimize their collective regret while keeping their expected cost under a specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Amirhossein Afsharrad , Parisa Oftadeh , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Sanjay Lall

We tackle the problem of Non-stochastic Control (NSC) with the aim of obtaining algorithms whose policy regret is proportional to the difficulty of the controlled environment. Namely, we tailor the Follow The Regularized Leader (FTRL)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Naram Mhaisen , George Iosifidis

Fast changing states or volatile environments pose a significant challenge to online optimization, which needs to perform rapid adaptation under limited observation. In this paper, we give query and regret optimal bandit algorithms under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhou Lu , Qiuyi Zhang , Xinyi Chen , Fred Zhang , David Woodruff , Elad Hazan

This paper investigates the problem of non-stationary linear bandits, where the unknown regression parameter is evolving over time. Existing studies develop various algorithms and show that they enjoy an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Peng Zhao , Lijun Zhang , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We introduce a new stochastic smoothing perspective to study adversarial contextual bandit problems. We propose a general algorithm template that represents random perturbation based algorithms and identify several perturbation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Young Hun Jung , Ambuj Tewari

We prove that single-parameter natural exponential families with subexponential tails are self-concordant with polynomial-sized parameters. For subgaussian natural exponential families we establish an exact characterization of the growth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuai Liu , Alex Ayoub , Flore Sentenac , Xiaoqi Tan , Csaba Szepesvári

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

We consider the problem of contextual kernel bandits with stochastic contexts, where the underlying reward function belongs to a known Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. We study this problem under an additional constraint of Differential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-21 Nikola Pavlovic , Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao

In this technical note, we consider the linear-quadratic time-inconsistent mean-field type leader-follower Stackelberg differential game with an adapted open-loop information structure. The objective functionals of the leader and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Jun Moon , Hyun Jong Yang

This paper addresses a Stackelberg stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) differential game under closed-loop information, a problem inherently time-inconsistent. Existing approaches rely on solving two coupled Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Qi Lü , Bowen Ma , Hanxiao Wang

This paper presents the Constrained Multi-Task Representation Learning (CMTRL) framework for linear bandits. We consider T linear bandit tasks in a d dimensional space, which share a common low-dimensional representation of dimension r,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiabin Lin , Shana Moothedath

We consider the problem of online learning in misspecified linear stochastic multi-armed bandit problems. Regret guarantees for state-of-the-art linear bandit algorithms such as Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty Linear bandit (OFUL) hold…

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