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Workshop: OPT 2023: Optimization for Machine Learning

Efficient Learning in Polyhedral Games via Best Response Oracles

Darshan Chakrabarti · Gabriele Farina · Christian Kroer


Abstract: We study online learning and equilibrium computation in games with polyhedral decision sets with only first-order oracle and best-response oracle access. Our approach achieves constant regret in zero-sum games and O(T1/4) in general-sum games, while using only O(logt) best-response queries at a given iteration t. This convergence occurs at a linear rate, though with a condition-number dependence. Our algorithm also achieves best-iterate convergence at a rate of O(1/T) without such a dependence. Our algorithm uses a linearly-convergent variant of Frank-Wolfe (FW) whose linear convergence depends on a condition number of the polytope known as the facial distance. We show two broad new results, characterizing the condition number when the polyhedral sets satisfy a certain structure.

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