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New research establishes lower bounds for online learning regret rates

A new paper published on arXiv by Weibel et al. addresses the regret rate in online learning for convex sets. The research proves a conjecture that fixed-coefficient methods cannot improve upon the $T^{3/4}$ regret rate, extending this lower bound to deterministic learners in an oracle-only model. The paper constructs specific instances to demonstrate these lower bounds, with one construction achieving regret at least $2^{-1/4}LDb^{-1/4}T^{3/4}$ and another yielding regret of at least $3LDT^{3/4}/4$ under different conditions. AI

IMPACT Establishes theoretical limits for online learning algorithms, potentially guiding future algorithm development.

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New research establishes lower bounds for online learning regret rates

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohit Sinha ·

    Lower Bounds for Linear-Oracle Online Learning

    arXiv:2609.38375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can a constant number of linear minimizations per round improve on the $T^{3/4}$ regret rate of online Frank-Wolfe on general convex sets? Weibel et al. conjectured that fixed-coefficient methods cannot. We prove their conjecture an…