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Trust Region Constrained Bayesian Optimization with Penalized Constraint Handling
Chowdhury, Raju, Sen, Tanmay, Bhuyan, Prajamitra, Pradhan, Biswabrata
Constrained optimization in high-dimensional black-box settings is difficult due to expensive evaluations, the lack of gradient information, and complex feasibility regions. In this work, we propose a Bayesian optimization method that combines a penalty formulation, a surrogate model, and a trust region strategy. The constrained problem is converted to an unconstrained form by penalizing constraint violations, which provides a unified modeling framework. A trust region restricts the search to a local region around the current best solution, which improves stability and efficiency in high dimensions. Within this region, we use the Expected Improvement acquisition function to select evaluation points by balancing improvement and uncertainty. The proposed Trust Region method integrates penalty-based constraint handling with local surrogate modeling. This combination enables efficient exploration of feasible regions while maintaining sample efficiency. We compare the proposed method with state-of-the-art methods on synthetic and real-world high-dimensional constrained optimization problems. The results show that the method identifies high-quality feasible solutions with fewer evaluations and maintains stable performance across different settings.
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Constrained Online Convex Optimization with Memory and Predictions
Abdullah, Mohammed, Iosifidis, George, Elayoubi, Salah Eddine, Chahed, Tijani
We study Constrained Online Convex Optimization with Memory (COCO-M), where both the loss and the constraints depend on a finite window of past decisions made by the learner. This setting extends the previously studied unconstrained online optimization with memory framework and captures practical problems such as the control of constrained dynamical systems and scheduling with reconfiguration budgets. For this problem, we propose the first algorithms that achieve sublinear regret and sublinear cumulative constraint violation under time-varying constraints, both with and without predictions of future loss and constraint functions. Without predictions, we introduce an adaptive penalty approach that guarantees sublinear regret and constraint violation. When short-horizon and potentially unreliable predictions are available, we reinterpret the problem as online learning with delayed feedback and design an optimistic algorithm whose performance improves as prediction accuracy improves, while remaining robust when predictions are inaccurate. Our results bridge the gap between classical constrained online convex optimization and memory-dependent settings, and provide a versatile learning toolbox with diverse applications.
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Online convex optimization for cumulative constraints
We propose the algorithms for online convex optimization which lead to cumulative squared constraint violations of the form $\sum\limits_{t=1}^T\big([g(x_t)]_+\big)^2=O(T^{1-\beta})$, where $\beta\in(0,1)$. Previous literature has focused on long-term constraints of the form $\sum\limits_{t=1}^Tg(x_t)$. There, strictly feasible solutions can cancel out the effects of violated constraints. In contrast, the new form heavily penalizes large constraint violations and cancellation effects cannot occur. Furthermore, useful bounds on the single step constraint violation $[g(x_t)]_+$ are derived. For convex objectives, our regret bounds generalize existing bounds, and for strongly convex objectives we give improved regret bounds. In numerical experiments, we show that our algorithm closely follows the constraint boundary leading to low cumulative violation.
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