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Theemergence of digital technologies has transformed decision making across commercial sectors such as airlines, online retailing, and internet advertising. Today, real-time decisions need to be repeatedly made in highly uncertain and rapidly changing environments. Moreover, organizations usually have limited resources, which need to be efficiently allocated across decisions. Such problems are referred to as online allocation problems with resource constraints, and applications abound. Some examples include:

In an online allocation problem, a decision maker has a limited amount of total resources (B) and receives a certain number of requests over time (T). At any point in time (t), the decision maker receives a reward function (ft) and resource consumption function (bt), and takes an action (xt). The reward and resource consumption functions change over time and the objective is to maximize the total reward within the resource constraints. If all the requests were known in advance, then an optimal allocation could be obtained by solving an offline optimization problem for how to maximize the reward function over time within the resource constraints1.

The optimal offline allocation cannot be implemented in practice because it requires knowing future requests. However, this is still useful for framing the goal of online allocation problems: to design an algorithm whose performance is as close to optimal as possible without knowing future requests.

This reframes the online allocation problem as a problem of pricing resources to enable optimal decision making. The key innovation of our algorithm is using machine learning to predict optimal prices in an online fashion: we choose prices dynamically using mirror descent, a popular optimization algorithm for training machine learning predictive models. Because prices for resources are referred to as "dual variables" in the field of optimization, we call the resulting algorithm dual mirror descent.

The algorithm works sequentially by assuming uniform resource consumption over time is optimal and updating the dual variables after each action. It starts at a moment in time (t) by taking an action (xt) that maximizes the reward minus the opportunity cost of consuming resources (shown in the top gray box below). The action (e.g., how much to bid or which ad to show) is implemented if there are enough resources available. Then, the algorithm computes the error in the resource consumption (gt), which is the difference between uniform consumption over time and the actual resource consumption (below in the third gray box). A new dual variable for the next time period is computed using mirror descent based on the error, which then informs the next action. Mirror descent seeks to make the error as close as possible to zero, improving the accuracy of its estimate of the dual variable, so that resources are consumed uniformly over time. While the assumption of uniform resource consumption may be surprising, it helps avoid missing good opportunities and often aligns with commercial goals so is effective. Mirror descent also allows a variety of update rules; more details are in the paper.

By design, dual mirror descent has a self-correcting feature that prevents depleting resources too early or waiting too long to consume resources and missing good opportunities. When a request consumes more or less resources than the target, the corresponding dual variable is increased or decreased. When resources are then priced higher or lower, future actions are chosen to consume resources more conservatively or aggressively.

In this post we introduced dual mirror descent, an algorithm for online allocation problems that is simple, robust, and flexible. It is particularly notable that after a long line of work in online allocation algorithms, dual mirror descent provides a way to analyze a wider range of algorithms with superior robustness priorities compared to previous techniques. Dual mirror descent has a wide range of applications across several commercial sectors and has been used over time at Google to help advertisers capture more value through better algorithmic decision making. We are also exploring further work related to mirror descent and its connections to PI controllers.

We would like to thank our co-authors Haihao Lu and Balu Sivan, and Kshipra Bhawalkar for their exceptional support and contributions. We would also like to thank our collaborators in the ad quality team and market algorithm research.

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We study the rates of growth of the regret in online convex optimization. First, we show that a simple extension of the algorithm of Hazan et al eliminates the need for a priori knowledge of the lower bound on the second derivatives of the observed functions. We then provide an algorithm, Adaptive Online Gradient Descent, which interpolates between the results of Zinkevich for linear functions and of Hazan et al for strongly convex functions, achieving intermediate rates T and log T . Furthermore, we show strong optimality of the algorithm. between Finally, we provide an extension of our results to general norms.

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Stochastic gradient descent uses a simple yet efficient iterative technique to fit model coefficients using error gradients for convex loss functions.Online Gradient Descent (OGD) implements the standard (non-batch) stochastic gradient descent, with a choice of loss functions,and an option to update the weight vector using the average of the vectors seen over time (averaged argument is set to True by default).

Append a 'caching checkpoint' to the estimator chain. This will ensure that the downstream estimators will be trained againstcached data. It is helpful to have a caching checkpoint before trainers that take multiple data passes.

Given an estimator, return a wrapping object that will call a delegate once Fit(IDataView)is called. It is often important for an estimator to return information about what was fit, which is why theFit(IDataView) method returns a specifically typed object, rather than just a generalITransformer. However, at the same time, IEstimator are often formed into pipelineswith many objects, so we may need to build a chain of estimators via EstimatorChain where theestimator for which we want to get the transformer is buried somewhere in this chain. For that scenario, we can through thismethod attach a delegate that will be called once fit is called.

We consider a natural model of online preference aggregation, where sets of preferred items R1, R2, ..., Rt, ..., along with a demand for kt items in each Rt, appear online. Without prior knowledge of (Rt, kt), the learner maintains a ranking \pit aiming that at least kt items from Rt appear high in \pi_t. This is a fundamental problem in preference aggregation with applications to e.g., ordering product or news items in web pages based on user scrolling and click patterns.

The widely studied Generalized Min-Sum-Set-Cover (GMSSC) problem serves as a formal model for the setting above. GMSSC is NP-hard and the standard application of no-regret online learning algorithms is computationally inefficient, because they operate in the space of rankings. In this work, we show how to achieve low regret for GMSSC in polynomial-time. We employ dimensionality reduction from rankings to the space of doubly stochastic matrices, where we apply Online Gradient Descent. A key step is to show how subgradients can be computed efficiently, by solving the dual of a configuration LP. Using deterministic and randomized rounding schemes, we map doubly stochastic matrices back to rankings with a small loss in the GMSSC objective.

In stochastic gradient descent we do not require the update direction to be based exactly on the gradient. Instead, we allow the direction to be a random vector and only require that its expected value at each iteration will equal the gradient direction. Or, more generally, we require that the expected value of the random vector will be a subgradient of the function at the current vector.

As an example, let's place ourselves in the context of Linear/Logistic Regression. Let's assume you have $N$ samples in your training set. You want to use loop once through those samples to learn the coefficients of your model.

Online Gradient Descent is essentially the same as stochastic gradient descent; the name online emphasizes we are not solving a batch problem, but rather predicting on a sequence of examples that need not be IID.

In words, OMD allows us to prove regret guarantees that depend on arbitrary couple of dual norms and . In particular, the primal norm will be used to measure the feasible set or the distance between the competitor and the initial point, and the dual norm will be used to measure the gradients. If you happen to know something about these quantities, we can choose the most appropriate couple of norm to guarantee a small regret. The only thing you need is a function that is strongly convex with respect to the primal norm you have chosen .

Overall, the regret bound is still of the order of for Lipschitz functions, that only difference is that now the Lipschitz constant is measured with a different norm. Also, everything we did for Online Subgradient Descent (OSD) can be trivially used here. So, for example, we can use stepsize of the form

Next time, we will see practical examples of OMD that guarantee strictly better regret than OSD. As we did in the case of AdaGrad, the better guarantee will depend on the shape of the domain and the characteristics of the subgradients.

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