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48 results for logarithmic guarantees

Oracle-efficient algorithms reduce combinatorial semi-bandit regret to logarithmic time.

problem Scalability issue in combinatorial semi-bandit problems due to high combinatorial optimization costs.
method Oracle-efficient frameworks that minimize oracle queries while maintaining tight regret guarantees.
result Achieved ildeO(T) ilde{O}(\sqrt{T}) regret with O(loglogT)O(\log\log T) oracle queries for worst-case linear rewards.

The paper analyzes the statistical cost of tuning kernel hyperparameters in robust regression.

problem Finding the best interpolant from a class of kernels with unknown hyperparameters under adversarial noise.
method Finite-sample guarantees, subsampling guarantee for linear regression, ε-net argument for discretizing kernel parameterizations.
result Hyperparameter optimization increases sample complexity by just a logarithmic factor, compared to known parameters.

This work removes logarithmic singularities from hyperboloidal initial data without creating new ones.

problem Logarithmic singularities in hyperboloidal initial data sets.
method Evolutionary framework of the constraint equations and generalization of Beyer and Ritchie's result.
result Generic solutions of the constraint equations are free of logarithmic singularities.

Near-logarithmic regret per switch achieved for mixable/exp-concave losses.

problem Online optimization of mixable loss functions with dynamic environments.
method Online mixture framework using static solvers and hyper-expert creations.
result Near-logarithmic regret per switch with sub-polynomial complexity.

Flow Matching improves statistical guarantees through kernel density estimation.

problem Improving statistical guarantees for generative models.
method Connecting Flow Matching to kernel density estimation and verifying optimal rates of convergence.
result Flow Matching achieves optimal rates up to logarithmic factors for large networks and on lower-dimensional manifolds.

Algorithm reduces regret in multi-player bandits with unknown collision rewards.

problem Reducing regret in multi-player multi-armed bandits with unknown collision rewards.
method Proposes an algorithm that combines a modified successive elimination strategy with a communication protocol to estimate suboptimality gaps and coordinate among players.
result Achieves logarithmic regret for the problem when collision reward is unknown.

Efficient algorithms identify true hypothesis from many options with minimal actions.

problem Identifying true hypothesis from a large set of options with minimal actions.
method Greedy approximation algorithms for active sequential hypothesis testing.
result First approximation guarantees for ASHT, independent of the number of hypotheses.

The paper shows how to learn causal representations with few environments and finite samples.

problem Learning causal representations from limited data and environments.
method Explicit, finite-sample guarantees with a logarithmic number of interventions.
result Consistent recovery of latent causal graph, mixing matrix, and unknown intervention targets.

Greedy pruning reduces neural networks by a logarithmic number of tickets, improving accuracy.

problem Pruning large neural networks to reduce size while maintaining accuracy.
method Greedy optimization-based pruning method with exponential decay guarantee.
result The discrepancy between pruned and original networks decays exponentially with network size.

Develops a high-dimensional differentially-private EM algorithm with near-optimal statistical guarantees.

problem Designing differentially-private EM algorithms for high-dimensional latent variable models.
method Noisy iterative hard-thresholding, statistical guarantees, near-optimal convergence rates.
result Near-optimal statistical guarantees and minimax rate optimality in high-dimensional settings.

We study convexity and monotonicity properties for prices of bonds and bond options when the short rate is modeled by a diffusion process. We provide conditions under which convexity of the price in the short rate is guaranteed. Under these conditions the price is decreasing in the drift and increasing in the volatilit…

2007-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a parameter-free SGD algorithm with optimal convergence rate.

problem Optimizing parameters in stochastic convex optimization.
method A novel parameter-free algorithm for SGD with high-probability guarantees and adaptive properties.
result Achieves optimal convergence rate with only a double-logarithmic factor increase compared to known-parameter settings.

We investigate the geometry of the Kodaira moduli space MM of sections of π:ZP1π:Z\to {\mathbb P}^1, the normal bundle of which is allowed to jump from O(1)n{\mathcal O}(1)^{n} to O(1)n2mO(2)mOm{\mathcal O}(1)^{n-2m}\oplus {\mathcal O}(2)^{m}\oplus {\mathcal O}^{m}. In particular, we identify the natural assumptions which guarantee tha…

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this problem is the stochastic block model, also referred to as the planted partition model…

2012-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

A decentralized policy achieves logarithmic regret for multi-agent MAB problems with communication constraints.

problem Decentralized policy for multi-agent MAB problems with option availability and communication constraints.
method Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithms with non-stationary stochastic communication protocol.
result Guaranteed logarithmic regret for non-fully connected spatial graphs with communication constraints.

Algorithm learns expert weights to minimize regret in adversarial setting.

problem Learning to aggregate expert forecasts with no-regret guarantee in adversarial conditions.
method Online mirror descent algorithm for logarithmic pooling of expert forecasts.
result Achieves O(TlogT)O(\sqrt{T} \log T) expected regret compared to best weights.

We revisit the question of reducing online learning to approximate optimization of the offline problem. In this setting, we give two algorithms with near-optimal performance in the full information setting: they guarantee optimal regret and require only poly-logarithmically many calls to the approximation oracle per it…

2018-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New Thompson Sampling for partially observed context bandits reduces regret logarithmically with time.

problem Improving Thompson Sampling for partially observed context bandits.
method Proposed a Thompson Sampling algorithm for partially observable contextual multi-armed bandits with theoretical performance guarantees.
result Regret scales logarithmically with time and the number of arms, and linearly with the dimension.

New batched Langevin Thompson Sampling reduces communication costs for sequential decision making.

problem Efficiently learning unknown reward distributions and transition dynamics in batched settings.
method Langevin Thompson Sampling with logarithmic communication costs.
result Order-optimal regret guarantees for stochastic MABs and RL.

This paper provides theoretical guarantees for SPCA using the Elastic Net.

problem Lack of theoretical guarantees for the SPCA algorithm.
method Revisited and improved the SPCA algorithm of Zou et al. (2006) using the Elastic Net.
result Both algorithms can recover the principal subspace consistently under mild conditions.

Improved spectral clustering guarantees for dynamic stochastic block models.

problem Analyzing Spectral Clustering in dynamic stochastic block models.
method Extending guarantees to sparse and smooth DSBM, linking sparsity and smoothness.
result Improved error bounds for consistent recovery in dynamic DSBM.

We derive an algorithm that achieves the optimal (within constants) pseudo-regret in both adversarial and stochastic multi-armed bandits without prior knowledge of the regime and time horizon. The algorithm is based on online mirror descent (OMD) with Tsallis entropy regularization with power α=1/2α=1/2 and reduced-varian…

2018-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

VRPG algorithm optimizes convex constraints with non-asymptotic guarantees.

problem Stochastic convex optimization under convex constraints.
method Natural variance reduced proximal gradient (VRPG) algorithm.
result VRPG achieves local minimax lower bound up to constants and log factor of NN.

Polynomial mixing times for simulated tempering in mixture sampling problems.

problem Sampling from mixtures of log-concave distributions with location shifts.
method Conductance decomposition applied to an auxiliary Markov chain on an augmented space.
result First polynomial-time guarantee for simulated tempering with MALA.

We derive PAC-Bayesian learning guarantees for heavy-tailed losses, and obtain a novel optimal Gibbs posterior which enjoys finite-sample excess risk bounds at logarithmic confidence. Our core technique itself makes use of PAC-Bayesian inequalities in order to derive a robust risk estimator, which by design is easy to …

2019-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper achieves logarithmic regret for online Kalman filter learning.

problem Predicting observations from an unknown, partially observed linear system with stochastic noise.
method Online least-squares algorithm exploiting the approximate linearity of Kalman filter predictions.
result Achieves regret of order poly(log(N)) with high probability.

Algorithm minimizes regret in multi-criteria bandits with constraints.

problem Optimize primary attribute while respecting secondary constraints.
method Con-LCB algorithm that guarantees logarithmic regret and feasibility identification.
result Logarithmic regret and feasibility identification with high probability.

The paper analyzes the InfoNCE loss under different temperature schedules using Langevin dynamics.

problem Understanding the dynamics of InfoNCE loss under fixed versus annealed temperature schedules.
method Modeling embedding evolution under Langevin dynamics on a compact Riemannian manifold, with theoretical guarantees for convergence.
result Slow logarithmic inverse-temperature schedules ensure convergence to globally optimal representations, while faster schedules risk suboptimal minima.

We introduce a new model of stochastic bandits with adversarial corruptions which aims to capture settings where most of the input follows a stochastic pattern but some fraction of it can be adversarially changed to trick the algorithm, e.g., click fraud, fake reviews and email spam. The goal of this model is to encour…

2018-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an integrated approach for structure and parameter estimation in latent tree graphical models. Our overall approach follows a "divide-and-conquer" strategy that learns models over small groups of variables and iteratively merges onto a global solution. The structure learning involves combinatorial operations…

2014-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Greedy algorithm achieves sublinear regret for various distributions.

problem Efficient performance of greedy algorithms in linear contextual bandit problems.
method Introduced Local Anti-Concentration (LAC) condition to ensure sublinear regret.
result Greedy algorithm achieves O(polylogT)O(\operatorname{poly} \log T) cumulative expected regret.

AdaptOn achieves logarithmic regret in adaptive control of unknown partially observable linear systems.

problem Adaptive control in partially observable linear dynamical systems.
method AdaptOn algorithm that estimates system dynamics through online learning and gradient descent.
result AdaptOn achieves a logarithmic regret bound of polylog(T) after T steps.

Paper solves NP-hard sparse mixed linear regression problem with provable guarantees.

problem Sparse mixed linear regression on unlabeled data.
method Invex relaxation for intractable problem with theoretical guarantees.
result Exact recovery of data labels and close approximation of regression parameters.

New algorithm optimizes convex functions with noisy evaluations in one dimension.

problem Optimizing convex functions with noisy zero-order evaluations in one dimension.
method Proposed a computationally efficient algorithm achieving O(1/T)O(1/\sqrt{T}) convergence rate.
result Achieved the optimal O(1/T)O(1/\sqrt{T}) convergence rate, closing the gap in one dimension.