Delay and cooperation in nonstochastic linear bandits

S Ito, D Hatano, H Sumita… - Advances in …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper offers a nearly optimal algorithm for online linear optimization with delayed
bandit feedback. Online linear optimization with bandit feedback, or nonstochastic linear …

Tight first-and second-order regret bounds for adversarial linear bandits

S Ito, S Hirahara, T Soma… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose novel algorithms with first-and second-order regret bounds for adversarial
linear bandits. These regret bounds imply that our algorithms perform well when there is an …

Revisiting online submodular minimization: Gap-dependent regret bounds, best of both worlds and adversarial robustness

S Ito - International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we consider online decision problems with submodular loss functions. For
such problems, existing studies have only dealt with worst-case analysis. This study goes …

Tracking regret bounds for online submodular optimization

T Matsuoka, S Ito, N Ohsaka - International Conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we propose algorithms for online submodular optimization with tracking regret
bounds. Online submodular optimization is a generic framework for sequential decision …

Efficient submodular optimization under noise: local search is robust

L Huang, Y Wang, C Yang… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The problem of monotone submodular maximization has been studied extensively due to its
wide range of applications. However, there are cases where one can only access the …

Stochastic -convex Function Minimization

H Zhang, Z Zheng, J Lavaei - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study an extension of the stochastic submodular minimization problem, namely, the
stochastic $ L^\natural $-convex minimization problem. We develop the first polynomial-time …

Accelerating Matroid Optimization through Fast Imprecise Oracles

F Eberle, F Hommelsheim, A Lindermayr, Z Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Querying complex models for precise information (eg traffic models, database systems, large
ML models) often entails intense computations and results in long response times. Thus …

Gradient-based algorithms for convex discrete optimization via simulation

H Zhang, Z Zheng, J Lavaei - Operations research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We propose new sequential simulation–optimization algorithms for general convex
optimization via simulation problems with high-dimensional discrete decision space. The …

Stochastic Localization Methods for Discrete Convex Simulation Optimization

H Zhang, Z Zheng, J Lavaei - Available at SSRN 3742569, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We develop and analyze a set of new sequential simulation-optimization algorithms for large-
scale multi-dimensional discrete optimization via simulation problems with a convexity …

Learning and optimization in the face of data perturbations

MJ Staib - 2020 - dspace.mit.edu
Many problems in the machine learning pipeline boil down to maximizing the expectation of
a function over a distribution. This is the classic problem of stochastic optimization. There are …