3 papers
eess.SY2023
Safe Pricing Mechanisms for Distributed Resource Allocation with Bandit Feedback
Spencer Hutchinson, Berkay Turan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
In societal-scale infrastructures, such as electric grids or transportation networks, pricing mechanisms are often used as a way to shape users' demand in order to lower operating…
cs.LG2023
The Impact of the Geometric Properties of the Constraint Set in Safe Optimization with Bandit Feedback
Spencer Hutchinson, Berkay Turan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
We consider a safe optimization problem with bandit feedback in which an agent sequentially chooses actions and observes responses from the environment, with the goal of maximizing…
math.OC2022
Safe Dual Gradient Method for Network Utility Maximization Problems
Berkay Turan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh
In this paper, we introduce a novel first-order dual gradient algorithm for solving network utility maximization problems that arise in resource allocation schemes over networks wi…