Best-of-All-Worlds Bounds for Online Learning with Feedback Graphs

Liad Erez, Tomer Koren

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Abstract

We study the online learning with feedback graphs framework introduced by Mannor and Shamir [24], in which the feedback received by the online learner is specified by a graph G over the available actions. We develop an algorithm that simultaneously achieves regret bounds of the form: (equation presented) O(√θ(G)T) with adversarial losses; O(θ(G) polylogT) with stochastic losses; and O(θ(G) polylogT +pθ(G)C) with stochastic losses subject to C adversarial corruptions. Here, θ(G) is the clique covering number of the graph G. Our algorithm is an instantiation of Follow-the-Regularized-Leader with a novel regularization that can be seen as a product of a Tsallis entropy component (inspired by Zimmert and Seldin [27]) and a Shannon entropy component (analyzed in the corrupted stochastic case by Amir et al. [3]), thus subtly interpolating between the two forms of entropies. One of our key technical contributions is in establishing the convexity of this regularizer and controlling its inverse Hessian, despite its complex product structure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 - 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2021
EditorsMarc'Aurelio Ranzato, Alina Beygelzimer, Yann Dauphin, Percy S. Liang, Jenn Wortman Vaughan
PublisherNeural information processing systems foundation
Pages28511-28521
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781713845393
StatePublished - 2021
Event35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 6 Dec 202114 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Volume34
ISSN (Print)1049-5258

Conference

Conference35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/12/2114/12/21

Funding

FundersFunder number
Yandex Initiative in Machine Learning
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Israel Science Foundation2549/19

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