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The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is a fundamental building block for the optimization of electrical power systems. It is nonlinear and nonconvex and computes the generator setpoints for power and voltage, given a set of load demands. It…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-04 Ferdinando Fioretto , Terrence W. K. Mak , Pascal Van Hentenryck

There is an increasing interest in a fast-growing machine learning technique called Federated Learning, in which the model training is distributed over mobile user equipments (UEs), exploiting UEs' local computation and training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Canh T. Dinh , Nguyen H. Tran , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Choong Seon Hong , Wei Bao , Albert Y. Zomaya , Vincent Gramoli

We introduce a latency-aware contextual bandit framework that generalizes the standard contextual bandit problem, where the learner adaptively selects arms and switches decision sets under action delays. In this setting, the learner…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-10 Lai Wei , Ambuj Tewari , Michael A. Cianfrocco

We consider a fair resource allocation problem in the no-regret setting against an unrestricted adversary. The objective is to allocate resources equitably among several agents in an online fashion so that the difference of the aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Abhishek Sinha , Ativ Joshi , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Cameron Musco , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

As a promising solution to achieve efficient learning among isolated data owners and solve data privacy issues, federated learning is receiving wide attention. Using the edge server as an intermediary can effectively collect sensor data,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Jianyang Ren , Wanli Ni , Gaofeng Nie , Hui Tian

In the fixed budget thresholding bandit problem, an algorithm sequentially allocates a budgeted number of samples to different distributions. It then predicts whether the mean of each distribution is larger or lower than a given threshold.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Reda Ouhamma , Rémy Degenne , Pierre Gaillard , Vianney Perchet

While generative modeling has achieved remarkable success on tasks like natural language-conditioned image generation, enabling model adaptation from example data points remains a relatively underexplored and challenging problem. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tyler Ingebrand , Ruihan Zhao , Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

We tackle in this paper an online network resource allocation problem with job transfers. The network is composed of many servers connected by communication links. The system operates in discrete time; at each time slot, the administrator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-17 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Amirhossein Asgharnia

We consider the problem of rate and power allocation in a multiple-access channel. Our objective is to obtain rate and power allocation policies that maximize a general concave utility function of average transmission rates on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ali ParandehGheibi , Atilla Eryilmaz , Asuman Ozdaglar , Muriel Medard

A popular approach to selling online advertising is by a waterfall, where a publisher makes sequential price offers to ad networks for an inventory, and chooses the winner in that order. The publisher picks the order and prices to maximize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Branislav Kveton , Saied Mahdian , S. Muthukrishnan , Zheng Wen , Yikun Xian

In this paper, we revisit the widely known performance anomaly that results in severe network utility degradation in WiFi networks when nodes use diverse modulation and coding schemes. The proportional-fair allocation was shown to mitigate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Piotr Gawłowicz , Jean Walrand , Adam Wolisz

Conditional flow matching (CFM) stands out as an efficient, simulation-free approach for training flow-based generative models, achieving remarkable performance for data generation. However, CFM is insufficient to ensure accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Shih-Hsin Wang , William Feldman , Hong Zhang , Bao Wang

We introduce the study of fairness in multi-armed bandit problems. Our fairness definition can be interpreted as demanding that given a pool of applicants (say, for college admission or mortgages), a worse applicant is never favored over a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Matthew Joseph , Michael Kearns , Jamie Morgenstern , Aaron Roth

We present the Waterfilling circuit selection method, which we designed in order to mitigate the risks of a successful end-to-end traffic correlation attack. Waterfilling proceeds by balancing the Tor network load as evenly as possible on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Florentin Rochet , Olivier Pereira

The stochastic $K$-armed bandit problem has been studied extensively due to its applications in various domains ranging from online advertising to clinical trials. In practice however, the number of arms can be very large resulting in large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Arpit Agarwal , Sanjeev Khanna , Prathamesh Patil

Policy regret is a well established notion of measuring the performance of an online learning algorithm against an adaptive adversary. We study restrictions on the adversary that enable efficient minimization of the \emph{complete policy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-26 Dhruv Malik , Yuanzhi Li , Aarti Singh

In this paper, we consider the energy-bandwidth allocation for a network with multiple broadcast channels, where the transmitters access the network orthogonally on the assigned frequency band and each transmitter communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Zhe Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is integral to the functioning of power systems, aiming to optimize generation dispatch while adhering to technical and operational constraints. These constraints are far from straightforward; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andrew Rosemberg , Mathieu Tanneau , Bruno Fanzeres , Joaquim Garcia , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this paper we use game theoretic techniques to study the value of cooperation in distributed spectrum management problems. We show that the celebrated iterative water-filling algorithm is subject to the prisoner's dilemma and therefore…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Amir Laufer , Amir Leshem , Hagit Messer

We present a novel machine learning framework for the optimal control of fluid restless multi-armed bandit problems (FRMABPs) with state equations that are either affine or quadratic in the state variables. By establishing fundamental…

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