arXiv:2606. 08028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study high-probability regret bounds for online convex optimization (OCO) with strongly convex losses and establish three results that resolve open questions at the intersection of noise adaptivity, feedback structure, and constraint satisfaction.
By Wentao Zhang, Yutong Zhang, Wentao Mo
arXiv:2510. 22819v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The convergence analysis of online learning algorithms is central to machine learning theory, where the last-iterate convergence is particularly important, as it captures the learner's actual decisions and describes the evolution of the learning process over time.
By Jingxin Zhan, Yuze Han, Zhihua Zhang
arXiv:2605. 21107v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study constrained online convex optimization with adversarial time-varying constraints.
By Dhruv Sarkar, Abhishek Sinha
arXiv:2608. 15365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Regret minimization (RM) and best-arm identification (BAI) are two fundamental objectives in multi-armed bandits.
By Jingxin Zhan, Yuze Han, Zhihua Zhang
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
The paper studies contextual bilateral trade with full feedback, showing that action-independent observations eliminate the usual polynomial adaptation penalty seen in heavy-tailed bandits. It presents fully parameter-free algorithms that achieve oracle minimax regret rates without knowing the moment order or scale, and derives new regret bounds for both parametric and nonparametric settings. The key technical insight is a paired squared‑loss statistic whose noise cancels, enabling model selection and yielding regret rates that interpolate between classical nonparametric and linear extremes.
By Hangyi Zhao
arXiv:2608. 12231v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study adversarial combinatorial bandits with $m$-set actions, where at each round the learner selects $m$ out of $d$ items and observes only the aggregate loss of the selected items.
By Francesco Bacchiocchi, Tommaso Cesari, Roberto Colomboni
arXiv:2607. 28856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Swap-agnostic learning strengthens classical agnostic learning by allowing the comparator to select a different hypothesis on each level set of the learner's predictions.
By Princewill Okoroafor
We establish a $\widetildeΩ(d^{5/4}\sqrt T)$ lower bound on the minimax expected regret of stochastic bandit convex optimization of $1$-Lipschitz functions on the Euclidean ball. This presents the first nontrivial regret lower bound that grows faster than $d\sqrt{T}$ for this problem, establishing that stochastic bandit convex optimization is fundamentally harder than linear bandits.
arXiv:2502. 16744v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In adversarial Constrained Online Convex Optimization (COCO), a learner selects actions from a fixed convex set while seeking both low regret and low cumulative constraint violation (CCV) under time-varying constraints.
By Yiyang Lu, Mohammad Pedramfar, Mengbo Wang, Vaneet Aggarwal
arXiv:2608. 15996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study second-order path-length regret in adversarial $K$-armed bandits against oblivious loss sequences.
By Mengxiao Zhang
arXiv:2602. 23116v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the problem of regularized best-response max-regret minimization in online RLHF under general preferences and bandit feedback.
By Junghyun Lee, Minju Hong, Kwang-Sung Jun, Chulhee Yun, Se-Young Yun