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Optimistic Online Mirror Descent for Bridging Stochastic and Adversarial Online Convex Optimization
SIJIA CHEN · Wei-Wei Tu · Peng Zhao · Lijun Zhang

Wed Jul 26 02:00 PM -- 03:30 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #722
in Poster Session 3 »
Stochastically Extended Adversarial (SEA) model is introduced by Sachs et al. (2022) as an interpolation between stochastic and adversarial online convex optimization. Under the smoothness condition, they demonstrate that the expected regret of optimistic follow-the-regularized-leader (FTRL) depends on the cumulative stochastic variance $\sigma_{1:T}^2$ and the cumulative adversarial variation $\Sigma_{1:T}^2$ for convex functions. They also provide a slightly weaker bound based on the maximal stochastic variance $\sigma_{\max}^2$ and the maximal adversarial variation $\Sigma_{\max}^2$ for strongly convex functions. Inspired by their work, we investigate the theoretical guarantees of optimistic online mirror descent (OMD) for the SEA model. For convex and smooth functions, we obtain the same $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{\sigma_{1:T}^2}+\sqrt{\Sigma_{1:T}^2})$ regret bound, without the convexity requirement of individual functions. For strongly convex and smooth functions, we establish an $\mathcal{O}(\min\{\log (\sigma_{1:T}^2+\Sigma_{1:T}^2), (\sigma_{\max}^2 + \Sigma_{\max}^2) \log T\})$ bound, better than their $\mathcal{O}((\sigma_{\max}^2 + \Sigma_{\max}^2) \log T)$ result. For exp-concave and smooth functions, we achieve a new $\mathcal{O}(d\log(\sigma_{1:T}^2+\Sigma_{1:T}^2))$ bound. Owing to the OMD framework, we further establish dynamic regret for convex and smooth functions, which is more favorable in non-stationary online scenarios.
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SIJIA CHEN (Nanjing University)
Wei-Wei Tu (4Paradigm Inc.)
Peng Zhao (Nanjing University)
Lijun Zhang (Nanjing University)

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