We resolve the threshold part of Question 4 of the COLT 2025 open problem "Data Selection for Regression Tasks" of Hanneke, Moran, Shlimovich and Yehudayoff. In vector-valued linear regression with sq...
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:2607. 18652v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We establish improved lower bounds on the minimax expected regret of stochastic bandit convex optimization for $1$-Lipschitz functions on the $d$-dimensional Euclidean ball.
By Nived Rajaraman, Yanjun Han
Bakhtiari, Lattimore and Szepesvári (COLT 2025) proved that Thompson sampling (TS) has Bayesian regret $\tilde O(d^{5/2}\sqrt n)$ for bandit convex optimisation with convex \emph{monotone} ridge losse...
arXiv:2608. 15472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The problem of networked information aggregation, studied in Kearns et al.
By Ambar Pal
arXiv:2602. 19172v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realizable online regression can behave very differently from online classification.
By Ilan Doron-Arad, Idan Mehalel, Elchanan Mossel
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: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: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: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
arXiv:2608. 10869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Worst-case multiclass bounds do not become smaller when the best classifier is already nearly correct: what is missing is an optimistic rate, a guarantee whose fluctuation scales with the oracle risk itself.
By Xiaoyu Li, Andi Han, Jiaojiao Jiang, Junbin Gao
arXiv:2609. 10981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bakhtiari, Lattimore and Szepesv\'ari (COLT 2025) proved that Thompson sampling (TS) has Bayesian regret $\tilde O(d^{5/2}\sqrt n)$ for bandit convex optimisation with convex \emph{monotone} ridge losses $f(x)=\ell(\ip{x}{\theta})$, and asked whether monotonicity of the link is necessary.
By Xuan Li