arXiv Machine Learning

Optimizing the Preconditioner: A Black-box Online-to-Nonconvex Conversion with Static Regret Minimization Oracles

arXiv:2607. 17607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether stochastic nonconvex optimization can be reduced to ordinary static regret minimization in online convex optimization in a black-box manner.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Lower Bound on the Cumulative Constrained Violation for the OGD+Projection algorithm for Constrained Online Convex Optimization (COCO)

arXiv:2607. 10808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of constrained online convex optimization is considered, where at each round, once a learner commits to an action $x_t \in \mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, a convex loss function $f_t$ and a convex constraint function $g_t$ that drives the constraint $g_t(x)\le 0$ are revealed.

By Haricharan Balasundaram, Karthick Krishna Mahendran, Rahul Vaze
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

High-Dimensional Calibration from Swap Regret

arXiv:2505. 21460v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study online calibration of multi-dimensional forecasts over an arbitrary convex set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ relative to an arbitrary norm $|\cdot|$.

By Maxwell Fishelson, Noah Golowich, Mehryar Mohri, Jon Schneider
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

On the Convergence of Stochastic Low-Rank Adaptation

arXiv:2607. 21975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) optimizes $J(B,A)=\mathcal L(W_\mathrm{base}+sBA)$ over two adapters $B \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times r}$ and $A \in \mathbb{R}^{r \times n}$ that form a low-rank update to a frozen pretrained weight matrix $W_\mathrm{base} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$.

By Ru Wang, Chengchang Liu, John C. S. Lui
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Online Convex Optimization with Sublinear Noisy Probes

arXiv:2606. 14640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study Online Convex Optimization (OCO) over a convex set $K\subseteq \mathbb R^d$, where in each round $t$ the learner selects $x_t\in K$ and then observes a convex loss $f_t:K\to[0,1]$, with the goal of minimizing regret to the best fixed decision in hindsight.

By Simone Di Gregorio, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi, Matteo Russo