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Online Multi-task Learning with Hard Constraints

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  • Gabor Lugosi

    (ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)

  • Omiros Papaspiliopoulos

    (ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)

  • Gilles Stoltz

    (DMA - Département de Mathématiques et Applications - ENS-PSL (UMR8553) - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

We discuss multi-task online learning when a decision maker has to deal simultaneously with M tasks. The tasks are related, which is modeled by imposing that the M-tuple of actions taken by the decision maker needs to satisfy certain constraints. We give natural examples of such restrictions and then discuss a general class of tractable constraints, for which we introduce computationally efficient ways of selecting actions, essentially by reducing to an on-line shortest path problem. We briefly discuss ``tracking'' and ``bandit'' versions of the problem and extend the model in various ways, including non-additive global losses and uncountably infinite sets of tasks.

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  • Gabor Lugosi & Omiros Papaspiliopoulos & Gilles Stoltz, 2009. "Online Multi-task Learning with Hard Constraints," Working Papers hal-00362643, HAL.
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