Multiscale entropic regularization for MTS on general metric spaces

11/21/2021
by   Farzam Ebrahimnejad, et al.
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We present an O((log n)^2)-competitive algorithm for metrical task systems (MTS) on any n-point metric space that is also 1-competitive for service costs. This matches the competitive ratio achieved by Bubeck, Cohen, Lee, and Lee (2019) and the refined competitive ratios obtained by Coester and Lee (2019). Those algorithms work by first randomly embedding the metric space into an ultrametric and then solving MTS there. In contrast, our algorithm is cast as regularized gradient descent where the regularizer is a multiscale metric entropy defined directly on the metric space. This answers an open question of Bubeck (Highlights of Algorithms, 2019).

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