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Abstract | ||
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This paper deals with online convex optimization involving both time-varying loss functions, and time-varying constraints. The loss functions are not fully accessible to the learner, and instead only the function values (also known as bandit feedback) are revealed at queried points. The constraints are revealed after making decisions, and can be instantaneously violated, yet they must be satisfied in the long term. This setting fits nicely the emerging online network tasks such as fog computing in the Internet-of-Things, where online decisions must flexibly adapt to the changing user preferences (loss functions), and the temporally unpredictable availability of resources (constraints). Tailored for such human-in-the-loop systems where the loss functions are hard to model, a family of online bandit saddle-point (BanSaP) schemes are developed, which adaptively adjust the online operations based on (possibly multiple) bandit feedback of the loss functions, and the changing environment. Performance here is assessed by: 1)
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that generalizes the widely used static regret and 2)
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that captures the accumulated amount of constraint violations. Specifically, BanSaP is proved to simultaneously yield sublinear dynamic regret and fit, provided that the best dynamic solutions vary slowly over time. Numerical tests in fog computation offloading tasks corroborate that our proposed BanSaP approach offers competitive performance relative to existing approaches that are based on gradient feedback. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2839563 | IEEE Internet of Things Journal |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Task analysis,Heuristic algorithms,Internet of Things,Edge computing,Optimization,Cloud computing,Convex functions | Journal | abs/1707.09060 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
1 | IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 22 May 2018 | 14 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.62 | 12 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tianyi Chen | 1 | 43 | 7.52 |
| Georgios B. Giannakis | 2 | 14 | 0.62 |