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A prescription to calculate the minimum number of bits needed for binary strip detector readout is presented. This permits a systematic analysis of the readout efficiency relative to this theoretical minimum number of bits. Different level…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Maurice Garcia-Sciveres , Xinkang Wang

We consider online packing problems where we get a stream of axis-parallel rectangles. The rectangles have to be placed in the plane without overlapping, and each rectangle must be placed without knowing the subsequent rectangles. The goal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Lorenzo Beretta

The online bisection problem requires maintaining a dynamic partition of $n$ nodes into two equal-sized clusters. Requests arrive sequentially as node pairs. If the nodes lie in different clusters, the algorithm pays unit cost. After each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mateusz Basiak , Marcin Bienkowski , Guy Even , Agnieszka Tatarczuk

Online learning makes sequence of decisions with partial data arrival where next movement of data is unknown. In this paper, we have presented a new technique as multiple times weight updating that update the weight iteratively forsame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Charanjeet , Anuj Sharma

For bin packing, the input consists of $n$ items with sizes $s_1,...,s_n \in [0,1]$ which have to be assigned to a minimum number of bins of size 1. Recently, the second author gave an LP-based polynomial time algorithm that employed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Rebecca Hoberg , Thomas Rothvoss

In the $d$-dimensional hypercube bin packing problem, a given list of $d$-dimensional hypercubes must be packed into the smallest number of hypercube bins. Epstein and van Stee [SIAM J. Comput. 35 (2005)] showed that the asymptotic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Flávio Keidi Miyazawa , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

This paper initiates the study of online algorithms for the maximum weight $b$-matching problem, a generalization of maximum weight matching where each node has at most $b \geq 1$ adjacent matching edges. The problem is motivated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Marcin Bienkowski , David Fuchssteiner , Jan Marcinkowski , Stefan Schmid

We present new approximation schemes for bin packing based on the following two approaches: (1) partitioning the given problem into mostly identical sub-problems of constant size and then construct a solution by combining the solutions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Srikrishnan Divakaran

While rectangular and box-shaped objects dominate the classic discourse of theoretic investigations, a fascinating frontier lies in packing more complex shapes. Given recent insights that convex polygons do not allow for constant…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tim Gerlach , Benjamin Hennies , Linda Kleist

We consider the problem of packing rectangles into bins that are unit squares, where the goal is to minimize the number of bins used. All rectangles have to be packed non-overlapping and orthogonal, i.e., axis-parallel. We present an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-03-16 Rolf Harren , Rob van Stee

An online reinforcement learning algorithm is anytime if it does not need to know in advance the horizon T of the experiment. A well-known technique to obtain an anytime algorithm from any non-anytime algorithm is the "Doubling Trick". In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-20 Lilian Besson , Emilie Kaufmann

Online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) has widespread applications in industrial automation. Existing methods usually solve the problem with limited resolution of spatial discretization, and/or cannot deal with complex practical constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hang Zhao , Juzhan Xu , Kexiong Yu , Ruizhen Hu , Chenyang Zhu , Bo Du , Kai Xu

We study an extension of the classical Bin Packing Problem, where each item consumes the bin capacity during a given time window that depends on the item itself. The problem asks for finding the minimum number of bins to pack all the items…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Mauro Dell'Amico , Fabio Furini , Manuel Iori

Online bidding is a classical problem in online decision-making, with applications in resource allocation, hierarchical clustering, and the analysis of approximation algorithms. We study its randomized learning-augmented variant, where an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mathis Degryse , Imrane Saakour , Christoph Dürr , Spyros Angelopoulos

This paper optimizes the configuration of large-scale data centers toward cost-effective, reliable and sustainable cloud supply chains. The problem involves placing incoming racks of servers within a data center to maximize demand coverage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Saumil Baxi , Kayla Cummings , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sean Lo , Rob McDonald , Konstantina Mellou , Ishai Menache , Marco Molinaro

In this paper we present a fast scalable heuristic for bin packing that partitions the given problem into identical sub-problems of constant size and solves these constant size sub-problems by considering only a constant number of bin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Srikrishnan Divakaran

Although many authors have considered how many ternary comparisons it takes to sort a multiset $S$ of size $n$, the best known upper and lower bounds still differ by a term linear in $n$. In this paper we restrict our attention to online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Travis Gagie , Yakov Nekrich

Many recent caching systems aim to improve miss ratios, but there is no good sense among practitioners of how much further miss ratios can be improved. In other words, should the systems community continue working on this problem?…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Daniel S. Berger , Nathan Beckmann , Mor Harchol-Balter

This paper proposes a novel bin picking framework, two-stage grasping, aiming at precise grasping of cluttered small objects. Object density estimation and rough grasping are conducted in the first stage. Fine segmentation, detection,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hanwen Cao , Jianshu Zhou , Junda Huang , Yichuan Li , Ng Cheng Meng , Rui Cao , Qi Dou , Yunhui Liu

We consider the problem of grasping in clutter. While there have been motion planners developed to address this problem in recent years, these planners are mostly tailored for open-loop execution. Open-loop execution in this domain,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Wisdom C. Agboh , Mehmet R. Dogar