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In this paper, we study the private and robust alignment of language models from a theoretical perspective by establishing upper bounds on the suboptimality gap in both offline and online settings. We consider preference labels subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wenqian Weng , Yi He , Xingyu Zhou

First order methods endowed with global convergence guarantees operate using global lower bounds on the objective. The tightening of the bounds has been shown to increase both the theoretical guarantees and the practical performance. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Mihai I. Florea , Yurii Nesterov

Classical optimization algorithms--hill climbing, simulated annealing, population-based methods--generate candidate solutions via random perturbations. We replace the random proposal generator with an LLM agent that reasons about evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yitao Li

We study non-atomic congestion games on parallel-link networks with affine cost functions. We investigate the power of machine-learned predictions in the design of coordination mechanisms aimed at minimizing the impact of selfishness. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Ioannis Vlachos

Is it possible to maximize a monotone submodular function faster than the widely used lazy greedy algorithm (also known as accelerated greedy), both in theory and practice? In this paper, we develop the first linear-time algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Amin Karbasi , Jan Vondrak , Andreas Krause

We consider the online minimum cost matching problem on the line, in which there are $n$ servers and, at each of $n$ time steps, a request arrives and must be irrevocably matched to a server that has not yet been matched to, with the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eric Balkanski , Yuri Faenza , Noemie Perivier

Local Policy Search is a popular reinforcement learning approach for handling large state spaces. Formally, it searches locally in a paramet erized policy space in order to maximize the associated value function averaged over some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Bruno Scherrer , Matthieu Geist

We consider minimizing a smooth function subject to a summation constraint over its variables. By exploiting a connection between the greedy 2-coordinate update for this problem and equality-constrained steepest descent in the 1-norm, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Amrutha Varshini Ramesh , Aaron Mishkin , Mark Schmidt , Yihan Zhou , Jonathan Wilder Lavington , Jennifer She

In this paper we consider greedy scheduling algorithms in wireless networks, i.e., the schedules are computed by adding links greedily based on some priority vector. Two special cases are considered: 1) Longest Queue First (LQF) scheduling,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Qiao Li , Rohit Negi

We study the problem of scheduling sensors in a resource-constrained linear dynamical system, where the objective is to select a small subset of sensors from a large network to perform the state estimation task. We formulate this problem as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Abolfazl Hashemi , Mahsa Ghasemi , Haris Vikalo , Ufuk Topcu

Submodular maximization has been widely studied over the past decades, mostly because of its numerous applications in real-world problems. It is well known that the standard greedy algorithm guarantees a worst-case approximation factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Alfredo Torrico , Mohit Singh , Sebastian Pokutta

Today's multiagent systems have grown too complex to rely on centralized controllers, prompting increasing interest in the design of distributed algorithms. In this respect, game theory has emerged as a valuable tool to complement more…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rahul Chandan , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

One-max search is a classic problem in online decision-making, in which a trader acts on a sequence of revealed prices and accepts one of them irrevocably to maximise its profit. The problem has been studied both in probabilistic and in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ziyad Benomar , Lorenzo Croissant , Vianney Perchet , Spyros Angelopoulos

Local search algorithms for NP-hard problems such as Max-Cut frequently perform much better in practice than worst-case analysis suggests. Smoothed analysis has proved an effective approach to understanding this: a substantial literature…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lukas Michel , Alex Scott

Motivated by online advertisement and exchange settings, greedy randomized algorithms for the maximum matching problem have been studied, in which the algorithm makes (random) decisions that are essentially oblivious to the input graph. Any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-12 T-H. Hubert Chan , Fei Chen , Xiaowei Wu , Zhichao Zhao

Greedy algorithms are a fundamental category of algorithms in mathematics and computer science, characterized by their iterative, locally optimal decision-making approach, which aims to find global optima. In this review, we will discuss…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Andrea García

We investigate the performance of the standard Greedy algorithm for cardinality constrained maximization of non-submodular nondecreasing set functions. While there are strong theoretical guarantees on the performance of Greedy for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Andrew An Bian , Joachim M. Buhmann , Andreas Krause , Sebastian Tschiatschek

This paper provides a systematic study of several proposed measures for online algorithms in the context of a specific problem, namely, the two server problem on three colinear points. Even though the problem is simple, it encapsulates a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Joan Boyar , Sandy Irani , Kim S. Larsen

The contextual bandit literature has traditionally focused on algorithms that address the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. In particular, greedy algorithms that exploit current estimates without any exploration may be sub-optimal in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Hamsa Bastani , Mohsen Bayati , Khashayar Khosravi

We study the problem of global maximization of a function f given a finite number of evaluations perturbed by noise. We consider a very weak assumption on the function, namely that it is locally smooth (in some precise sense) with respect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Michal Valko , Alexandra Carpentier , Rémi Munos