Online (Non-)Convex Learning via Tempered Optimism

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Hauptverfasser: Haddouche, Maxime, Wintenberger, Olivier, Guedj, Benjamin
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Veröffentlicht: 2023
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author Haddouche, Maxime
Wintenberger, Olivier
Guedj, Benjamin
author_facet Haddouche, Maxime
Wintenberger, Olivier
Guedj, Benjamin
contents Optimistic Online Learning aims to exploit experts conveying reliable information to predict the future. However, such implicit optimism may be challenged when it comes to practical crafting of such experts. A fundamental example consists in approximating a minimiser of the current problem and use it as expert. In the context of dynamic environments, such an expert only conveys partially relevant information as it may lead to overfitting. To tackle this issue, we introduce in this work the \emph{optimistically tempered} (OT) online learning framework designed to handle such imperfect experts. As a first contribution, we show that tempered optimism is a fruitful paradigm for Online Non-Convex Learning by proposing simple, yet powerful modification of Online Gradient and Mirror Descent. Second, we derive a second OT algorithm for convex losses and third, evaluate the practical efficiency of tempered optimism on real-life datasets and a toy experiment.
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spellingShingle Online (Non-)Convex Learning via Tempered Optimism
Haddouche, Maxime
Wintenberger, Olivier
Guedj, Benjamin
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Optimistic Online Learning aims to exploit experts conveying reliable information to predict the future. However, such implicit optimism may be challenged when it comes to practical crafting of such experts. A fundamental example consists in approximating a minimiser of the current problem and use it as expert. In the context of dynamic environments, such an expert only conveys partially relevant information as it may lead to overfitting. To tackle this issue, we introduce in this work the \emph{optimistically tempered} (OT) online learning framework designed to handle such imperfect experts. As a first contribution, we show that tempered optimism is a fruitful paradigm for Online Non-Convex Learning by proposing simple, yet powerful modification of Online Gradient and Mirror Descent. Second, we derive a second OT algorithm for convex losses and third, evaluate the practical efficiency of tempered optimism on real-life datasets and a toy experiment.
title Online (Non-)Convex Learning via Tempered Optimism
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07530