arXiv Machine Learning

A Provably Convergent Plug-and-Play Framework for Stochastic Bilevel Optimization

arXiv:2505. 01258v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bilevel optimization has recently attracted significant attention in machine learning due to its wide range of applications and advanced hierarchical optimization capabilities.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Non-Stationary Functional Bilevel Optimization

arXiv:2601. 15363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Functional bilevel optimization (FBO) provides a powerful framework for hierarchical learning in function spaces, yet current methods are limited to static offline settings and perform suboptimally in online, non-stationary scenarios.

By Jason Bohne, Ieva Petrulionyte, Michael Arbel, Julien Mairal, Pawe{\l} Polak
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Data- and Variance-dependent Regret Bounds for Online Tabular MDPs

arXiv:2602. 01903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work studies online episodic tabular Markov decision processes (MDPs) with known transitions and develops best-of-both-worlds algorithms that achieve refined data-dependent regret bounds in the adversarial regime and variance-dependent regret bounds in the stochastic regime.

By Mingyi Li, Taira Tsuchiya, Kenji Yamanishi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Stochastic Adaptive Gradient Descent Without Descent

arXiv:2509. 14969v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a new adaptive step-size strategy for convex optimization with stochastic gradient that exploits the local geometry of the objective function only by means of a first-order stochastic oracle and without any hyper-parameter tuning.

By Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Aujol, J\'er\'emie Bigot, Camille Castera