cs.DSFeb 19, 2026

Simultaneous Blackwell Approachability and Applications to Multiclass Omniprediction

Authors: Lunjia Hu, Kevin Tian, Chutong Yang

Organizations: Northeastern University · University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

Omniprediction is a learning problem that requires suboptimality bounds for each of a family of losses L\mathcal{L} against a family of comparator predictors C\mathcal{C}. We initiate the study of omniprediction in a multiclass setting, where the comparator family C\mathcal{C} may be infinite. Our main result is an extension of the recent binary omniprediction algorithm of [OKK25] to the multiclass setting, with sample complexity (in statistical settings) or regret horizon (in online settings) ≈ε−(k+1)\approx \varepsilon^{-(k+1)}, for ε\varepsilon-omniprediction in a kk-class prediction problem. En route to proving this result, we design a framework of potential broader interest for solving Blackwell approachability problems where multiple sets must simultaneously be approached via coupled actions.

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