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We study Online Linear Programming (OLP) with batching. The planning horizon is cut into $K$ batches, and the decisions on customers arriving within a batch can be delayed to the end of their associated batch. Compared with OLP without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Haoran Xu , Peter W. Glynn , Yinyu Ye

Motivated by applications in digital health, this work studies the novel problem of online uniform sampling (OUS), where the goal is to distribute a sampling budget uniformly across unknown decision times. In the OUS problem, the algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xueqing Liu , Kyra Gan , Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh , Susan Murphy

We study ranked enumeration of join-query results according to very general orders defined by selective dioids. Our main contribution is a framework for ranked enumeration over a class of dynamic programming problems that generalizes…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nikolaos Tziavelis , Deepak Ajwani , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Mirek Riedewald , Xiaofeng Yang

Tech companies (e.g., Google or Facebook) often use randomized online experiments and/or A/B testing primarily based on the average treatment effects to compare their new product with an old one. However, it is also critically important to…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-09 Chengchun Shi , Shikai Luo , Hongtu Zhu , Rui Song

This paper addresses the prevalent issue of label shift in an online setting with missing labels, where data distributions change over time and obtaining timely labels is challenging. While existing methods primarily focus on adjusting or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ruihan Wu , Siddhartha Datta , Yi Su , Dheeraj Baby , Yu-Xiang Wang , Kilian Q. Weinberger

In this work we study parallelization of online learning, a core primitive in machine learning. In a parallel environment all known approaches for parallel online learning lead to delayed updates, where the model is updated using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-03-23 Daniel Hsu , Nikos Karampatziakis , John Langford , Alex Smola

This paper introduces a problem in which the state of a system needs to be determined through costly tests of its components by a limited number of testing units and before a given deadline. We also consider a closely related search problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Alessandro Agnetis , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Salim Rostami

Effective issue resolution is crucial for maintaining software quality. Yet developers frequently encounter challenges such as low-quality issue reports, limited understanding of real-world workflows, and a lack of automated support. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Antu Saha

We address the problem of active online assortment optimization problem with preference feedback, which is a framework for modeling user choices and subsetwise utility maximization. The framework is useful in various real-world applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Aadirupa Saha , Pierre Gaillard

Heuristic search is often used for motion planning and pathfinding problems, for finding the shortest path in a graph while also promising completeness and optimal efficiency. The drawback is it's space complexity, specifically storing all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Davor Bokan , Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic

Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in the field of computer science. With the rapid development of manycore processors, it shows great importance to design efficient parallel sort algorithm on manycore architecture. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tianyi Yu , Wei Li

We study an online generalization of the classic Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) that models the trade-off between ordering costs, holding costs, and backlog costs in supply chain planning systems. A retailer places orders to a supplier…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Benjamin Moseley , Aidin Niaparast , R. Ravi

Recent developments in fitness landscape analysis include the study of Local Optima Networks (LON) and applications of the Elementary Landscapes theory. This paper represents a first step at combining these two tools to explore their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Francisco Chicano , Fabio Daolio , Gabriela Ochoa , Sébastien Verel , Marco Tomassini , Enrique Alba

In rank aggregation problems (RAP), the solution is usually a consensus ranking that generalizes a set of input orderings. There are different variants that differ not only in terms of the type of rankings that are used as input and output,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Juan A. Aledo , José A. Gámez , Alejandro Rosete

In modern e-commerce and service operations, firms must jointly manage inventory replenishment and real-time order fulfillment to maximize profit under demand uncertainty. While each component has been studied extensively in isolation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Zi Ling , Jiashuo Jiang , Linwei Xin

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various natural language benchmarks, prompting a continual need to curate more difficult datasets for larger LLMs, which is costly and time-consuming. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jiahao Ying , Yixin Cao , Yushi Bai , Qianru Sun , Bo Wang , Wei Tang , Zhaojun Ding , Yizhe Yang , Xuanjing Huang , Shuicheng Yan

We study the problem of improving the performance of online algorithms by incorporating machine-learned predictions. The goal is to design algorithms that are both consistent and robust, meaning that the algorithm performs well when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alexander Wei , Fred Zhang

This presentation focuses on the importance of web crawling and page ranking algorithms in dealing with the massive amount of data present on the World Wide Web. As the web continues to grow exponentially, efficient search and retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Nithin T K , Chandana S , Barani G , Chavva Dharani , M S Karishma

In display advertising, a small group of sellers and bidders face each other in up to 10 12 auctions a day. In this context, revenue maximisation via monopoly price learning is a high-value problem for sellers. By nature, these auctions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lorenzo Croissant , Marc Abeille , Clément Calauzènes

The "Local Ranking Problem" (LRP) is related to the computation of a centrality-like rank on a local graph, where the scores of the nodes could significantly differ from the ones computed on the global graph. Previous work has studied LRP…

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