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Poster
No-Regret Algorithms for Unconstrained Online Convex Optimization
Matthew Streeter · Brendan McMahan

Wed Dec 05 07:00 PM -- 12:00 AM (PST) @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor

Some of the most compelling applications of online convex optimization, including online prediction and classification, are unconstrained: the natural feasible set is R^n. Existing algorithms fail to achieve sub-linear regret in this setting unless constraints on the comparator point x* are known in advance. We present an algorithm that, without such prior knowledge, offers near-optimal regret bounds with respect to any choice of x. In particular, regret with respect to x = 0 is constant. We then prove lower bounds showing that our algorithm's guarantees are optimal in this setting up to constant factors.

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Matthew Streeter (Duolingo)
Brendan McMahan (Google Research)

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