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Poster

Online Continuous Submodular Maximization: From Full-Information to Bandit Feedback

Mingrui Zhang · Lin Chen · Hamed Hassani · Amin Karbasi

East Exhibition Hall B + C #168

Keywords: [ Algorithms -> Bandit Algorithms; Algorithms ] [ Online Learning ] [ Optimization ] [ Submodular Optimization ]


Abstract: In this paper, we propose three online algorithms for submodular maximization. The first one, Mono-Frank-Wolfe, reduces the number of per-function gradient evaluations from $T^{1/2}$ [Chen2018Online] and $T^{3/2}$ [chen2018projection] to 1, and achieves a $(1-1/e)$-regret bound of $O(T^{4/5})$. The second one, Bandit-Frank-Wolfe, is the first bandit algorithm for continuous DR-submodular maximization, which achieves a $(1-1/e)$-regret bound of $O(T^{8/9})$. Finally, we extend Bandit-Frank-Wolfe to a bandit algorithm for discrete submodular maximization, Responsive-Frank-Wolfe, which attains a $(1-1/e)$-regret bound of $O(T^{8/9})$ in the responsive bandit setting.

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