Learning-augmented algorithms combine fallible predictions with formal performance guarantees. This survey reviews prediction interfaces, error measures, consistency–robustness trade-offs, and five construction mechanisms across online optimization, caching, learned data structures, graph problems, and mechanism design. It distinguishes theorem-level upper bounds from matched asymptotic dependence, separates formal guarantees from empirical evidence, and outlines open problems in cost-aware prediction, endogenous error, semantic predictors, and benchmarking.
By Hailiang Zhao, Peng Chen, Xueyan Tang, Jianwei Yin, Shuiguang Deng
arXiv:2606. 05380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present learning-augmented algorithms for two general classes of online minimization problems: metrical task systems and laminar set cover.
By Christian Coester, Alexa Tudose, Alexander Turoczy
arXiv:2506. 20573v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Public datasets, crucial for modern machine learning and statistical inference, often contain low-quality or contaminated samples that can harm model performance.
By Kristian Minchev, Dimitar I. Dimitrov, Nikola Konstantinov
arXiv:2607. 27807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies learning-augmented and randomized online aggregation with delays on a line metric.
By Tianhang Lu, Runtian Ren, Shengcai Liu, Ke Tang
arXiv:2608. 13554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online probabilistic forecasting of binary outcomes chosen by an adaptive adversary.
By Georgy Noarov, Aaron Roth
The paper presents a unified framework for regularization-based robust reinforcement learning by deriving upper bounds on the performance gap between nominal and worst-case policies. These bounds are expressed as a regularization objective plus a KL-divergence penalty, explaining why KL penalties enhance robustness. The authors reformulate robust training as a constrained optimization problem, updating the Lagrange multiplier jointly with the policy to automatically tune regularization, and validate the approach with extensive adversarial evaluations on continuous control tasks.
By Amine Andam, Jamal Bentahar, Mustapha Hedabou