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Kfir Y. Levy

Kfir Y. Levy contributes to research discovery and scholarly infrastructure.

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preprint2026arXiv

Bringing Order to Asynchronous SGD: Towards Optimality under Data-Dependent Delays with Momentum

Asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) enables scalable distributed training but suffers from gradient staleness. Existing mitigation strategies, such as delay-adaptive learning rates and staleness-aware filtering, typically attenuate or discard delayed gradients, introducing systematic bias: updates from simpler or faster-to-process samples are overrepresented, while gradients from more complex samples are delayed or suppressed. In contrast, prior approaches to data-dependent delays rely on a Lipschitz assumption that yields suboptimal rates or leave the smooth, convex case unaddressed. We propose a momentum-based asynchronous framework designed to preserve information from delayed gradients while mitigating the effects of staleness. We establish the first optimal convergence rates for data-dependent delays in both convex and non-convex smooth setups, providing a new result for asynchronous optimization under standard assumptions. Additionally, we derive robust learning-rate schedules that simplify hyperparameter tuning in practice.

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preprint2022arXiv

A universal black-box optimization method with almost dimension-free convergence rate guarantees

Universal methods for optimization are designed to achieve theoretically optimal convergence rates without any prior knowledge of the problem's regularity parameters or the accurarcy of the gradient oracle employed by the optimizer. In this regard, existing state-of-the-art algorithms achieve an $\mathcal{O}(1/T^2)$ value convergence rate in Lipschitz smooth problems with a perfect gradient oracle, and an $\mathcal{O}(1/\sqrt{T})$ convergence rate when the underlying problem is non-smooth and/or the gradient oracle is stochastic. On the downside, these methods do not take into account the problem's dimensionality, and this can have a catastrophic impact on the achieved convergence rate, in both theory and practice. Our paper aims to bridge this gap by providing a scalable universal gradient method - dubbed UnderGrad - whose oracle complexity is almost dimension-free in problems with a favorable geometry (like the simplex, linearly constrained semidefinite programs and combinatorial bandits), while retaining the order-optimal dependence on $T$ described above. These "best-of-both-worlds" results are achieved via a primal-dual update scheme inspired by the dual exploration method for variational inequalities.

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preprint2022arXiv

Online Meta-Learning in Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandits

We study meta-learning for adversarial multi-armed bandits. We consider the online-within-online setup, in which a player (learner) encounters a sequence of multi-armed bandit episodes. The player's performance is measured as regret against the best arm in each episode, according to the losses generated by an adversary. The difficulty of the problem depends on the empirical distribution of the per-episode best arm chosen by the adversary. We present an algorithm that can leverage the non-uniformity in this empirical distribution, and derive problem-dependent regret bounds. This solution comprises an inner learner that plays each episode separately, and an outer learner that updates the hyper-parameters of the inner algorithm between the episodes. In the case where the best arm distribution is far from uniform, it improves upon the best bound that can be achieved by any online algorithm executed on each episode individually without meta-learning.

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preprint2022arXiv

Robust Linear Regression for General Feature Distribution

We investigate robust linear regression where data may be contaminated by an oblivious adversary, i.e., an adversary than may know the data distribution but is otherwise oblivious to the realizations of the data samples. This model has been previously analyzed under strong assumptions. Concretely, $\textbf{(i)}$ all previous works assume that the covariance matrix of the features is positive definite; and $\textbf{(ii)}$ most of them assume that the features are centered (i.e. zero mean). Additionally, all previous works make additional restrictive assumption, e.g., assuming that the features are Gaussian or that the corruptions are symmetrically distributed. In this work we go beyond these assumptions and investigate robust regression under a more general set of assumptions: $\textbf{(i)}$ we allow the covariance matrix to be either positive definite or positive semi definite, $\textbf{(ii)}$ we do not necessarily assume that the features are centered, $\textbf{(iii)}$ we make no further assumption beyond boundedness (sub-Gaussianity) of features and measurement noise. Under these assumption we analyze a natural SGD variant for this problem and show that it enjoys a fast convergence rate when the covariance matrix is positive definite. In the positive semi definite case we show that there are two regimes: if the features are centered we can obtain a standard convergence rate; otherwise the adversary can cause any learner to fail arbitrarily.

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