Regret Guarantees for Model-Free Cooperative Filtering under Asynchronous Observations

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Main Authors: Qian, Jiachen, Zheng, Yang
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author Qian, Jiachen
Zheng, Yang
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Zheng, Yang
contents Predicting the output of a dynamical system from streaming data is fundamental to real-time feedback control and decision-making. We first derive an autoregressive representation that relates future local outputs to asynchronous past outputs. Building on this structure, we propose an online least-squares algorithm to learn this autoregressive model for real-time prediction. We then establish a regret bound of O(log^3 N) relative to the optimal model-based predictor, which holds for marginally stable systems. Moreover, we provide a sufficient condition characterized via a symplectic matrix, under which the proposed cooperative online learning method provably outperforms the optimal model-based predictor that relies solely on local observations. From a technical standpoint, our analysis exploits the orthogonality of the innovation process under asynchronous data structure and the persistent excitation of the Gram matrix despite delay-induced asymmetries. Overall, these results offer both theoretical guarantees and practical algorithms for model-free cooperative prediction with asynchronous observations, thereby enriching the theory of online learning for dynamical systems.
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spellingShingle Regret Guarantees for Model-Free Cooperative Filtering under Asynchronous Observations
Qian, Jiachen
Zheng, Yang
Systems and Control
Predicting the output of a dynamical system from streaming data is fundamental to real-time feedback control and decision-making. We first derive an autoregressive representation that relates future local outputs to asynchronous past outputs. Building on this structure, we propose an online least-squares algorithm to learn this autoregressive model for real-time prediction. We then establish a regret bound of O(log^3 N) relative to the optimal model-based predictor, which holds for marginally stable systems. Moreover, we provide a sufficient condition characterized via a symplectic matrix, under which the proposed cooperative online learning method provably outperforms the optimal model-based predictor that relies solely on local observations. From a technical standpoint, our analysis exploits the orthogonality of the innovation process under asynchronous data structure and the persistent excitation of the Gram matrix despite delay-induced asymmetries. Overall, these results offer both theoretical guarantees and practical algorithms for model-free cooperative prediction with asynchronous observations, thereby enriching the theory of online learning for dynamical systems.
title Regret Guarantees for Model-Free Cooperative Filtering under Asynchronous Observations
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05661