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In this work, we study the single-choice prophet inequality problem, where a gambler faces a sequence of~$n$ online i.i.d. random variables drawn from an unknown distribution. When a variable reveals its value, the gambler needs to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Bo Li , Xiaowei Wu , Yutong Wu

We study the online fair division problem, where indivisible goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated immediately and irrevocably. Prior work establishes strong impossibility results for approximating classic notions such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Davin Choo , Winston Fu , Derek Khu , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Tze-Yang Poon , Nicholas Teh

We study the on-line minimum weighted bipartite matching problem in arbitrary metric spaces. Here, $n$ not necessary disjoint points of a metric space $M$ are given, and are to be matched on-line with $n$ points of $M$ revealed one by one.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-06 Béla Csaba , András S. Pluhár

In this paper, we generalize the recently studied Stochastic Matching problem to more accurately model a significant medical process, kidney exchange, and several other applications. Up until now the Stochastic Matching problem that has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Alireza Farhadi , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

Online bipartite matching is a fundamental problem in online optimization, extensively studied both in its integral and fractional forms due to its theoretical significance and practical applications, such as online advertising and resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Davin Choo , Billy Jin , Yongho Shin

Bipartite matching markets pair agents on one side of a market with agents, items, or contracts on the opposing side. Prior work addresses online bipartite matching markets, where agents arrive over time and are dynamically matched to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-13 John P Dickerson , Karthik A Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

Motivated by the use of high speed circuit switches in large scale data centers, we consider the problem of circuit switch scheduling. In this problem we are given demands between pairs of servers and the goal is to schedule at every time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Roy Schwartz , Mohit Singh , Sina Yazdanbod

Online bipartite matching with one-sided arrival and its variants have been extensively studied since the seminal work of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990). Motivated by real-life applications with dynamic market structures, e.g.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yuhao Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a maximum matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a random order. In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm receives a stream of edges and it is allowed to have a memory of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tung Mai , Anup Rao , Ryan A. Rossi

We consider the following stochastic optimization problem first introduced by Chen et al. in \cite{chen}. We are given a vertex set of a random graph where each possible edge is present with probability p_e. We do not know which edges are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Kevin Costello , Prasad Tetali , Pushkar Tripathi

With the rapid growth of data in modern applications, parallel algorithms for maximizing non-monotone submodular functions have gained significant attention. In the parallel computation setting, the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yixin Chen , Wenjing Chen , Alan Kuhnle

Consider the following stochastic matching problem. Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, an unknown subgraph $G_p = (V, E_p)$ is realized where $E_p$ includes every edge of $E$ independently with some probability $p \in (0, 1]$. The goal is to query a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Alma Ghafari , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We study a natural model of coordinated social ad campaigns over a social network, based on models of Datta et al. and Aslay et al. Multiple advertisers are willing to pay the host - up to a known budget - per user exposure, whether the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kartik Lakhotia , David Kempe

In several applications of real-time matching of demand to supply in online marketplaces, the platform allows for some latency to batch the demand and improve the efficiency. Motivated by these applications, we study the optimal trade-off…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh

This article presents a simplification of Zadimoghaddam's algorithm for the edge-weighted online bipartite matching problem, under the online primal dual framework. In doing so, we obtain an improved competitive ratio of $0.514$. We first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Zhiyi Huang

This paper studies the online stochastic resource allocation problem (RAP) with chance constraints. The online RAP is a 0-1 integer linear programming problem where the resource consumption coefficients are revealed column by column along…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Yuwei Chen , Zengde Deng , Yinzhi Zhou , Zaiyi Chen , Yujie Chen , Haoyuan Hu

Multi-pass streaming algorithm for Maximum Matching have been studied since more than 15 years and various algorithmic results are known today, including $2$-pass streaming algorithms that break the $1/2$-approximation barrier, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Lidiya Khalidah binti Khalil , Christian Konrad

Vizing's celebrated theorem asserts that any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ admits an edge coloring using at most $\Delta+1$ colors. In contrast, Bar-Noy, Naor and Motwani showed over a quarter century that the trivial greedy algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Binghui Peng , David Wajc

We design a generic method for reducing the task of finding weighted matchings to that of finding short augmenting paths in unweighted graphs. This method enables us to provide efficient implementations for approximating weighted matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Buddhima Gamlath , Sagar Kale , Slobodan Mitrović , Ola Svensson

We study the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model, and improve on the currently best one-pass algorithm due to Zelke (Proc. of STACS2008, pages 669-680) by devising a deterministic approach whose performance guarantee…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Julian Mestre , Danny Segev