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A Resilience Framework for Bi-Criteria Combinatorial Optimization with Bandit Feedback

Machine Learning 2026-05-11 v2 Artificial Intelligence Computer Science and Game Theory Systems and Control Systems and Control Machine Learning

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 (α,β,δ,N)(\alpha,\beta,\delta,\texttt{N})-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 O~(δ2/3N1/3T2/3)\tilde{O}(\delta^{2/3}\texttt{N}^{1/3}T^{2/3}) 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.

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@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}
}
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