@inproceedings{kulkarni2024optimal, author = {Kulkarni, Janardhan (Jana) and Reis, Victor and Rothvoss, Thomas}, title = {Optimal online discrepancy minimization}, booktitle = {STOC'24}, year = {2024}, month = {June}, abstract = {We prove that there exists an online algorithm that for any sequence of vectors with arriving one at a time, decides random signs so that for every the prefix sum is 10-subgaussian. This improves over the work of Alweiss, Liu and Sawhney who kept prefix sums -subgaussian, and gives a bound on the discrepancy Our proof combines a generalization of Banaszczyk's prefix balancing result to trees with a cloning argument to find distributions rather than single colorings. We also show a matching strategy for an oblivious adversary.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/optimal-online-discrepancy-minimization/}, pages = {1832-1840}, }