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Distributed aggregative optimization underpins many cooperative optimization and multi-agent control systems, where each agent's objective function depends both on its local optimization variable and an aggregate of all agents' optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

In this paper, we consider the problem of prediction with expert advice in dynamic environments. We choose tracking regret as the performance metric and develop two adaptive and efficient algorithms with data-dependent tracking regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Shiyin Lu , Lijun Zhang

Considering non-stationary environments in online optimization enables decision-maker to effectively adapt to changes and improve its performance over time. In such cases, it is favorable to adopt a strategy that minimizes the negative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Siyi Wang , Zifan Wang , Xinlei Yi , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson , Sandra Hirche

This study considers online learning with general directed feedback graphs. For this problem, we present best-of-both-worlds algorithms that achieve nearly tight regret bounds for adversarial environments as well as poly-logarithmic regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Shinji Ito , Taira Tsuchiya , Junya Honda

In this work, we revisit a classical distributed gradient-descent algorithm, introducing an interesting class of perturbed multi-agent systems. The state of each subsystem represents a local estimate of a solution to the global optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Tarek Bazizi , Mohamed Maghenem , Paolo Frasca , Antonio Lorìa , Elena Panteley

We study linear contextual bandits under adversarial corruption and heavy-tailed noise with finite $(1+\epsilon)$-th moments for some $\epsilon \in (0,1]$. Existing work that addresses both adversarial corruption and heavy-tailed noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Naoto Tani , Futoshi Futami

Online mirror descent (OMD) is a fundamental algorithmic paradigm that underlies many algorithms in optimization, machine learning and sequential decision-making. The OMD iterates are defined as solutions to optimization subproblems which,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ofir Schlisselberg , Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren , Yishay Mansour

We consider a distributed stochastic optimization problem in networks with finite number of nodes. Each node adjusts its action to optimize the global utility of the network, which is defined as the sum of local utilities of all nodes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wenjie Li , Mohamad Assaad

The regret bound of dynamic online learning algorithms is often expressed in terms of the variation in the function sequence ($V_T$) and/or the path-length of the minimizer sequence after $T$ rounds. For strongly convex and smooth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

Driven by the need to solve increasingly complex optimization problems in signal processing and machine learning, there has been increasing interest in understanding the behavior of gradient-descent algorithms in non-convex environments.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

We investigate the problem of online convex optimization with unknown delays, in which the feedback of a decision arrives with an arbitrary delay. Previous studies have presented a delayed variant of online gradient descent (OGD), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yuanyu Wan , Wei-Wei Tu , Lijun Zhang

This paper studies a distributed online convex optimization problem, where agents in an unbalanced network cooperatively minimize the sum of their time-varying local cost functions subject to a coupled inequality constraint. To solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Dandan Wang , Daokuan Zhu , Kin Cheong Sou , Jie Lu

To solve distributed optimization efficiently with various constraints and nonsmooth functions, we propose a distributed mirror descent algorithm with embedded Bregman damping, as a generalization of conventional distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Guanpu Chen , Weijian Li , Gehui Xu , Yiguang Hong

We investigate distributed online convex optimization with compressed communication, where $n$ learners connected by a network collaboratively minimize a sequence of global loss functions using only local information and compressed data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sifan Yang , Wenhao Yang , Wei Jiang , Lijun Zhang

This paper considers the problem of online trajectory design under time-varying environments. We formulate the general trajectory optimization problem within the framework of time-varying constrained convex optimization and proposed a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Mohan Krishna Nutalapati , Amrit Singh Bedi , Ketan Rajawat , Marceau Coupechoux

Reflecting the greater significance of recent history over the distant past in non-stationary environments, $\lambda$-discounted regret has been introduced in online convex optimization (OCO) to gracefully forget past data as new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenhao Yang , Sifan Yang , Lijun Zhang

We propose a new partial-observability model for online learning problems where the learner, besides its own loss, also observes some noisy feedback about the other actions, depending on the underlying structure of the problem. We represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Tomáš Kocák , Gergely Neu , Michal Valko

This paper studies bandit convex optimization in non-stationary environments with two-point feedback, using dynamic regret as the performance measure. We propose an algorithm based on bandit mirror descent that extends naturally to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chang He , Bo Jiang , Shuzhong Zhang

Motivated by distributed statistical learning over uncertain communication networks, we study distributed stochastic optimization by networked nodes to cooperatively minimize a sum of convex cost functions. The network is modeled by a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yan Chen , Alexander L. Fradkov , Keli Fu , Xiaozheng Fu , Tao Li

To deal with complicated constraints via locally light computations in distributed online learning, a recent study has presented a projection-free algorithm called distributed online conditional gradient (D-OCG), and achieved an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yuanyu Wan , Guanghui Wang , Wei-Wei Tu , Lijun Zhang