arXiv:2607. 18652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We establish a $\widetilde\Omega(d^{5/4}\sqrt T)$ lower bound on the minimax expected regret of stochastic bandit convex optimization of $1$-Lipschitz functions on the Euclidean ball.
By Nived Rajaraman
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:2609.15170v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study stochastic linear contextual bandits with arbitrary action menus that may depend on the fixed parameter and the interaction history. We establ...
By Tianyuan Jin
arXiv:2608. 25182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study alternating regret in online convex optimization (OCO), motivated by the success of alternating learning dynamics in two-player games.
By Mengxiao Zhang
arXiv:2608. 28007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hanneke, Moran, Shlimovich and Yehudayoff (COLT 2025) posed the following open problem.
By Guangjian Zhang
arXiv:2608.30254v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We resolve the threshold part of Question 4 of the COLT 2025 open problem "Data Selection for Regression Tasks" of Hanneke, Moran, Shlimovich and Yehud...
By Guangjian Zhang
arXiv:2602. 06404v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study distributed adversarial bandits, where $N$ agents cooperate to minimize the global average loss while observing only their own local losses.
By Hao Qiu, Mengxiao Zhang, Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi
arXiv:2607. 10936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the bandit-feedback version of online principal component analysis (Bandit PCA): in each round $t = 1,\dots,T$, the adversary selects a $d \times d$ symmetric gain matrix $G_t$ with spectrum in $[0,1]$ and rank at most $r$; the learner simultaneously selects a unit vector $w_t \in S^{d-1}$ and receives the reward $w_t^\top G_t w_t$.
By Mo\"ise Blanchard, Dmitrii Ostrovskii, Aadirupa Saha
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.
By Haichen Hu, David Simchi-Levi
arXiv:2603. 25029v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study online convex optimization (OCO) with two-point bandit feedback against a non-anticipating adaptive adversary.
By Haishan Ye
arXiv:2608. 06687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a rigorous theory of discrete residual least-squares approximation for elliptic spectral equations $\mathfrak L_\beta u=f$ using linearized ReLU$^k$ neural networks on the sphere, where $\mathfrak L_\beta$ is a positive elliptic spectral multiplier of order $\beta$.
By Xinliang Liu, Tong Mao, Jinchao Xu
arXiv:2605. 21107v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study constrained online convex optimization with adversarial time-varying constraints.
By Dhruv Sarkar, Abhishek Sinha