Online learning, links with optimization and games


Université Paris–Saclay — 2025–2026
Thursdays 9:00–12:15 — Room 1A7

This course proposes a unified presentation of regret minimization for adversarial online learning problems, and its application to various problems such as Blackwell's approachability, optimization algorithms (GD, Nesterov, SGD, AdaGrad), variational inequalities with monotone operators (Mirror-Prox, Dual Extrapolation), fixed-point iterations (Krasnoselskii-Mann), and games. The presentation aims at being modular, so that introduced tools and techniques could easily be used to define and analyze new algorithms.

Schedule

January, 22th
Convexity tools — Exercices
January, 29th
UMD Theory — Exercices
February, 5th
Online linear optimization
February, 12th
Online convex optimization
February, 19h
Blackwell's approachability
March, 12th
Gradient methods in optimization & AdaGrad
March, 19th
Regret learning in games
March, 26th
Extensive-form games