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A First-Order Learning Algorithm for Online Resource Allocation with Constant Regret

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arXiv:2609.05895 (cs)
[Submitted on 5 Sep 2026]

Title:A First-Order Learning Algorithm for Online Resource Allocation with Constant Regret

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Abstract:We study a finite-horizon online resource allocation problem with initial resource capacities proportional to the horizon. In each period, a request type is observed and one action is chosen from a finite menu. Each action earns a reward and consumes a vector of resources. The arrival types are independent and identically distributed, but their probabilities are unknown. We present a primal first-order learning policy that, in each period, performs one gradient ascent update of the action coordinates associated with the current request type. The policy achieves $O(1)$ expected additive regret relative to the hindsight optimum, with a bound independent of the horizon $T$. It does not solve any linear program, and the regret bound does not require a nondegeneracy assumption on the fluid linear program.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.05895 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2609.05895v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.05895
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From: Menglong Li [view email]
[v1] Sat, 5 Sep 2026 05:30:29 UTC (31 KB)
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