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We consider the classical online bipartite matching problem in the probe-commit model. In this problem, when an online vertex arrives, its edges must be probed to determine if they exist, based on known edge probabilities. A probing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury

Recent literature on online learning has focused on developing adaptive algorithms that take advantage of a regularity of the sequence of observations, yet retain worst-case performance guarantees. A complementary direction is to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Ali Jadbabaie , Alexander Rakhlin , Shahin Shahrampour , Karthik Sridharan

We give improved multi-pass streaming algorithms for the problem of maximizing a monotone or arbitrary non-negative submodular function subject to a general $p$-matchoid constraint in the model in which elements of the ground set arrive one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Chien-Chung Huang , Theophile Thiery , Justin Ward

We consider the online stochastic matching problem proposed by Feldman et al. [FMMM09] as a model of display ad allocation. We are given a bipartite graph; one side of the graph corresponds to a fixed set of bins and the other side…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Vahideh H. Manshadi , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Amin Saberi

Matching is one of the most fundamental and broadly applicable problems across many domains. In these diverse real-world applications, there is often a degree of uncertainty in the input which has led to the study of stochastic matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Brian Brubach , Nathaniel Grammel , Will Ma , Calum MacRury , Aravind Srinivasan

Online matching has received significant attention over the last 15 years due to its close connection to Internet advertising. As the seminal work of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani has an optimal (1 - 1/e) competitive ratio in the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Brian Brubach , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

In this paper, we study the non-bipartite maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model has received a significant amount of attention lately. While the problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

We propose a numerical algorithm for computing approximately optimal solutions of the matching for teams problem. Our algorithm is efficient for problems involving large number of agent categories and allows for non-discrete agent type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

We present parameterized streaming algorithms for the graph matching problem in both the dynamic and the insert-only models. For the dynamic streaming model, we present a one-pass algorithm that, with high probability, computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Ge Xia

We consider the sensitivity of algorithms for the maximum matching problem against edge and vertex modifications. Algorithms with low sensitivity are desirable because they are robust to edge failure or attack. In this work, we show a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuichi Yoshida , Samson Zhou

We study streaming submodular maximization subject to matching/$b$-matching constraints (MSM/MSbM), and present improved upper and lower bounds for these problems. On the upper bounds front, we give primal-dual algorithms achieving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Roie Levin , David Wajc

In the online bipartite matching with reassignments problem, an algorithm is initially given only one side of the vertex set of a bipartite graph; the vertices on the other side are revealed to the algorithm one by one, along with its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yongho Shin , Kangsan Kim , Seungmin Lee , Hyung-Chan An

We consider online scheduling weighted packets with time constraints over a fading channel. Packets arrive at the transmitter in an online manner. Each packet has a value and a deadline by which it should be sent. The fade state of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Fei Li , Zhi Zhang

In the online hypergraph matching problem, hyperedges of size $k$ over a common ground set arrive online in adversarial order. The goal is to obtain a maximum matching (disjoint set of hyperedges). A na\"ive greedy algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Thorben Tröbst , Rajan Udwani

The online matching problem was introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani (STOC 1990) on bipartite graphs with vertex arrivals. It is well-known that the optimal competitive ratio is $1-1/e$ for both integral and fractional versions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sander Borst , Danish Kashaev , Zhuan Khye Koh

We study a fundamental online scheduling problem where jobs with processing times, weights, and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to preemptively schedule these jobs on a single or multiple (possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Franziska Eberle

In the weighted bipartite matching problem, the goal is to find a maximum-weight matching in a bipartite graph with nonnegative edge weights. We consider its online version where the first vertex set is known beforehand, but vertices of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

In this article we propose a Weighted Stochastic Mesh (WSM) Algorithm for approximating the value of a discrete and continuous time optimal stopping problem. We prove that in the discrete case the WSM algorithm leads to semi-tractability of…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-25 D. Belomestny , M. Kaledin , J. Schoenmakers

Bayesian online learning provides a coherent framework for sequential inference. However, its theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly in the one-pass setting. Existing theoretical guarantees typically require the mini-batch…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jeyong Lee , Junhyeok Choi , Dongguen Kim , Minwoo Chae

We study the power of multiple choices in online stochastic matching. Despite a long line of research, existing algorithms still only consider two choices of offline neighbors for each online vertex because of the technical challenge in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhiyi Huang , Xinkai Shu , Shuyi Yan