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具有连续变化的在线学习:动态后悔与归约

Online Learning with Continuous Variations: Dynamic Regret and Reductions

Georgia Tech(佐治亚理工学院);UC Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校)

Ching-An Cheng, Jonathan Lee, Ken Goldberg, Byron Boots

摘要:

在线学习是分析迭代算法的有力工具。然而,经典的对抗性设置有时无法捕捉到实践中在线问题的某些规律性。出于这一动机,我们建立了一个新的设置,称为连续在线学习(COL),在线损失函数的梯度不断变化,跨轮相对于学习者的决定。我们表明,COL涵盖并更恰当地描述了许多有趣的应用,从一般均衡问题(EPs)的优化,在情节MDPs。特别是,我们发现单调EP承认减少实现次线性静态遗憾COL。使用这个新的设置,我们重新审视的困难,次线性动态遗憾。我们证明了一个基本的等价实现次线性动态遗憾COL和解决某些EP。有了这个洞察力,我们提供的条件,实现次线性动态遗憾的有效算法,即使是在没有任何先验变化预算的情况下,自适应地选择损失。此外,我们表明COL减少从动态遗憾到静态遗憾和收敛在相关的EP,使我们能够分析许多现有的算法的动态遗憾。

英文摘要:

Online learning is a powerful tool for analyzing iterative algorithms. However, the classic adversarial setup sometimes fails to capture certain regularity in online problems in practice. Motivated by this, we establish a new setup, called Continuous Online Learning (COL), where the gradient of online loss function changes continuously across rounds with respect to the learner's decisions. We show that COL covers and more appropriately describes many interesting applications, from general equilibrium problems (EPs) to optimization in episodic MDPs. In particular, we show monotone EPs admits a reduction to achieving sublinear static regret in COL. Using this new setup, we revisit the difficulty of sublinear dynamic regret. We prove a fundamental equivalence between achieving sublinear dynamic regret in COL and solving certain EPs. With this insight, we offer conditions for efficient algorithms that achieve sublinear dynamic regret, even when the losses are chosen adaptively without any a priori variation budget. Furthermore, we show for COL a reduction from dynamic regret to both static regret and convergence in the associated EP, allowing us to analyze the dynamic regret of many existing algorithms.

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