English
Related papers

Related papers: Metrical Service Systems with Multiple Servers

200 papers

Fueled by massive data, important decision making is being automated with the help of algorithms, therefore, fairness in algorithms has become an especially important research topic. In this work, we design new streaming and distributed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Ashish Chiplunkar , Sagar Kale , Sivaramakrishnan Natarajan Ramamoorthy

We present approximation algorithms for the Fault-tolerant $k$-Supplier with Outliers ($\mathsf{F}k\mathsf{SO}$) problem. This is a common generalization of two known problems -- $k$-Supplier with Outliers, and Fault-tolerant $k$-Supplier…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Luc Cote , Ankita Sarkar

In this paper, we propose a new recommendation algorithm for addressing the problem of two-sided online matching markets with complementary preferences and quota constraints, where agents' preferences are unknown a priori and must be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Yuantong Li , Guang Cheng , Xiaowu Dai

We introduce the poly-streaming model, a generalization of streaming models of computation in which $k$ processors process $k$ data streams containing a total of $N$ items. The algorithm is allowed $O\left(f(k)\cdot M_1\right)$ space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ahammed Ullah , S. M. Ferdous , Alex Pothen

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

Identifying heavy hitters and estimating the frequencies of flows are fundamental tasks in various network domains. Existing approaches to this challenge can broadly be categorized into two groups, hashing-based and competing-counter-based.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Rana Shahout , Michael Mitzenmacher

In many systems, servers do not turn on instantly; instead, a setup time must pass before a server can begin work. These "setup times" can wreak havoc on a system's queueing; this is especially true in modern systems, where servers are…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jalani Williams , Weina Wang , Mor Harchol-Balter

Motivated by applications in online marketplaces such as ride-hailing, we study how strategic servers impact the system performance. We consider a discrete-time process in which, heterogeneous types of customers and servers arrive. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Francisco Castro , Siva Theja Maguluri

We study the design of computationally efficient randomized algorithms for the $k$-server problem. Existing randomized algorithms with the best known competitive ratios are, on the one hand, inherently implicit and, on the other hand,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Christian Coester , Romain Cosson

In a metric space, a set of point sets of roughly the same size and an integer $k\geq 1$ are given as the input and the goal of data-distributed $k$-center is to find a subset of size $k$ of the input points as the set of centers to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Sepideh Aghamolaei , Mohammad Ghodsi

We reconsider randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices such as Laplacian and kernel matrices that arise in data analysis and machine learning applications. Our main results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Alex Gittens , Michael W. Mahoney

In this paper we present new algorithmic solutions for several constrained geometric server placement problems. We consider the problems of computing the 1-center and obnoxious 1-center of a set of line segments, constrained to lie on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Eliana-Dina Tirsa

In this paper, we study $k$-Way Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays - the $k$-MPMD problem. This problem considers a metric space with $n$ nodes. Requests arrive at these nodes in an online fashion. The task is to match these requests…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Darya Melnyk , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

We study the Multiserver-Job Queuing Model (MJQM) with general independent arrivals and service times under FCFS scheduling, using stochastic recurrence equations (SREs) and ergodic theory. We prove the monotonicity and separability…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Francois Baccelli , Diletta Olliaro , Marco Ajmone Marsan , Andrea Marin

We consider the problem of online service with delay on a general metric space, first presented by Azar, Ganesh, Ge and Panigrahi (STOC 2017). The best known randomized algorithm for this problem, by Azar and Touitou (FOCS 2019), is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Noam Touitou

We consider a multi-process remote estimation system observing $K$ independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. In this system, a shared sensor samples the $K$ processes in such a way that the long-term average sum mean square error (MSE) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Karim Banawan , Ahmed Arafa , Karim G. Seddik

Makespan minimization on identical parallel machines is a classical scheduling problem. We consider the online scenario where a sequence of $n$ jobs has to be scheduled non-preemptively on $m$ machines so as to minimize the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig

This work establishes the fundamental limits of the classical problem of multi-user distributed computing of linearly separable functions. In particular, we consider a distributed computing setting involving $L$ users, each requesting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

We consider the online traveling salesman problem on the real line (OLTSPL) in which a salesman begins at the origin, traveling at no faster than unit speed along the real line, and wants to serve a sequence of requests, arriving online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Pei-Chuan Chen , Erik D. Demaine , Chung-Shou Liao , Hao-Ting Wei

Suppose that $n$ items arrive online in random order and the goal is to select $k$ of them such that the expected sum of the selected items is maximized. The decision for any item is irrevocable and must be made on arrival without knowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Leon Ladewig