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We study a ranking and selection problem of learning from choice-based feedback with dynamic assortments. In this problem, a company sequentially displays a set of items to a population of customers and collects their choices as feedback.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junwen Yang , Yifan Feng

We study the differentially private top-$k$ selection problem, aiming to identify a sequence of $k$ items with approximately the highest scores from $d$ items. Recent work by Gillenwater et al. (ICML '22) employs a direct sampling approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Hao WU , Hanwen Zhang

The problem of ranking can be described as follows. We have a set of combinatorial objects $S$, such as, say, the k-subsets of n things, and we can imagine that they have been arranged in some list, say lexicographically, and we want to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Ryabko

We present data streaming algorithms for the $k$-median problem in high-dimensional dynamic geometric data streams, i.e. streams allowing both insertions and deletions of points from a discrete Euclidean space $\{1, 2, \ldots \Delta\}^d$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Vladimir Braverman , Gereon Frahling , Harry Lang , Christian Sohler , Lin F. Yang

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

We consider the problem of enumerating all instances of a given pattern graph in a large data graph. Our focus is on determining the input/output (I/O) complexity of this problem. Let $E$ be the number of edges in the data graph, $k=O(1)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Francesco Silvestri

We study two generalizations of classic clustering problems called dynamic ordered $k$-median and dynamic $k$-supplier, where the points that need clustering evolve over time, and we are allowed to move the cluster centers between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shichuan Deng , Jian Li , Yuval Rabani

We consider generalizations of the classical secretary problem, also known as the problem of optimal choice, to posets where the only information we have is the size of the poset and the number of maximal elements. We show that, given this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Bryn Garrod , Robert Morris

Consider a clique of n nodes, where in each synchronous round each pair of nodes can exchange O(log n) bits. We provide deterministic constant-time solutions for two problems in this model. The first is a routing problem where each node is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Christoph Lenzen

Many NP-hard problems, such as Dominating Set, are FPT parameterized by clique-width. For graphs of clique-width $k$ given with a $k$-expression, Dominating Set can be solved in $4^k n^{O(1)}$ time. However, no FPT algorithm is known for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Sang-il Oum , Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Martin Vatshelle

In many real-world applications such as business planning and sensor data monitoring, one important, yet challenging, the task is to rank objects(e.g., products, documents, or spatial objects) based on their ranking scores and efficiently…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Niranjan Rai , Xiang Lian

The distinct elements problem is one of the fundamental problems in streaming algorithms --- given a stream of integers in the range $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, we wish to provide a $(1+\varepsilon)$ approximation to the number of distinct elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jarosław Błasiok

In the problem of online unweighted interval selection, the objective is to maximize the number of non-conflicting intervals accepted by the algorithm. In the conventional online model of irrevocable decisions, there is an Omega(n) lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis

We study the problem of extracting a small subset of representative items from a large data stream. In many data mining and machine learning applications such as social network analysis and recommender systems, this problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yanhao Wang , Francesco Fabbri , Michael Mathioudakis

We consider the independent set problem in the semi-streaming model. For any input graph $G=(V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, an independent set is a set of vertices with no edges between any two elements. In the semi-streaming model, $G$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Daniel Ye

This paper studies the sample complexity (aka number of comparisons) bounds for the active best-$k$ items selection from pairwise comparisons. From a given set of items, the learner can make pairwise comparisons on every pair of items, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Wenbo Ren , Jia Liu , Ness B. Shroff

We formulate and study a statistical version of Katona's two-round search problem of finding at least one excellent element in a set. A population of $n$ elements is considered, where each element is independently excellent with probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nagananda K G , Jong Sung Kim

In this paper, we consider the weighted online set k-multicover problem. In this problem, we have a universe V of elements, a family S of subsets of V with a positive real cost for every set in S and a "coverage factor" (positive integer)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Piotr Berman , Bhaskar DasGupta

We study the problem of dynamic assortment personalization with large, heterogeneous populations and wide arrays of products, and demonstrate the importance of structural priors for effective, efficient large-scale personalization.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-03 Nathan Kallus , Madeleine Udell

We introduce and study a novel generalization of the classical Knapsack Problem (KP), called the Colored Knapsack Problem (CKP). In this problem, the items are partitioned into classes of colors and the packed items need to be ordered such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Fabio Ciccarelli , Alexander Helber , Erik Mühmer