A Resilience Framework for Bi-Criteria Combinatorial Optimization with Bandit Feedback
Abstract
We study bi-criteria combinatorial optimization under noisy function evaluations. While resilience and black-box offline-to-online reductions have been studied in single-objective settings, extending these ideas to bi-criteria problems introduces new challenges due to the coupled degradation of approximation guarantees for objectives and constraints. We introduce a notion of -resilience for bi-criteria approximation algorithms, capturing how joint approximation guarantees degrade under bounded (possibly worst-case) oracle noise, and develop a general black-box framework that converts any resilient offline algorithm into an online algorithm for bi-criteria combinatorial multi-armed bandits with bandit feedback. The resulting online guarantees achieve sublinear regret and cumulative constraint violation of order without requiring structural assumptions such as linearity, submodularity, or semi-bandit feedback on the noisy functions. We demonstrate the applicability of the framework by establishing resilience for several classical greedy algorithms in submodular optimization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.12285,
title = {A Resilience Framework for Bi-Criteria Combinatorial Optimization with Bandit Feedback},
author = {Vaneet Aggarwal and Shweta Jain and Subham Pokhriyal and Christopher John Quinn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12285},
year = {2026}
}