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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…

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This work focuses on the setting of dynamic regret in the context of online learning with full information. In particular, we analyze regret bounds with respect to the temporal variability of the loss functions. By assuming that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Nicolò Campolongo , Francesco Orabona

In the fully dynamic maximal matching problem, the goal is to maintain a maximal matching in a graph undergoing an online sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been studied extensively in the oblivious-adversary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna , Junkai Song

We consider the setting of online computation with advice, and study the bin packing problem and a number of scheduling problems. We show that it is possible, for any of these problems, to arbitrarily approach a competitive ratio of $1$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Marc P. Renault , Adi Rosén , Rob van Stee

This paper considers the basic problem of scheduling jobs online with preemption to maximize the number of jobs completed by their deadline on $m$ identical machines. The main result is an $O(1)$ competitive deterministic algorithm for any…

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We study a generalization of the classic paging problem that allows the amount of available memory to vary over time - capturing a fundamental property of many modern computing realities, from cloud computing to multi-core and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Enoch Peserico

Online learning algorithms for dynamical systems provide finite time guarantees for control in the presence of sequentially revealed cost functions. We pose the classical linear quadratic tracking problem in the framework of online…

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We study a new online assignment problem, called the Online Task Assignment with Controllable Processing Time. In a bipartite graph, a set of online vertices (tasks) should be assigned to a set of offline vertices (machines) under the known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ruoyu Wu , Wei Bao , Liming Ge

Many real-world applications operate on dynamic graphs that undergo rapid changes in their topological structure over time. However, it is challenging to design dynamic algorithms that are capable of supporting such graph changes…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Muhammad Farhan , Qing Wang , Henning Koehler

Federated learning (FL), as a collaborative distributed training paradigm with several edge computing devices under the coordination of a centralized server, is plagued by inconsistent local stationary points due to the heterogeneity of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Yixing Liu , Yan Sun , Zhengtao Ding , Li Shen , Bo Liu , Dacheng Tao

We present a flexible framework for the automated competitive analysis of on-line scheduling algorithms for firm-deadline real-time tasks based on multi-objective graphs: Given a taskset and an on-line scheduling algorithm specified as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Alexander Kößler , Ulrich Schmid

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

Emerging reconfigurable datacenters allow to dynamically adjust the network topology in a demand-aware manner. These datacenters rely on optical switches which can be reconfigured to provide direct connectivity between racks, in the form of…

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We investigate the problem of Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) in which requests are pairwise matched in an online fashion with the objective to minimize the sum of space cost and time cost. Though linear-MPMD (i.e., time cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xingwu Liu , Zhida Pan , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

The increasing integration of Large Language Model (LLM) based search engines has transformed the landscape of information retrieval. However, these systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially ranking manipulation attacks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xiyang Hu

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider the online caching problem for a cache of limited size. In a time-slotted system, a user requests one file from a large catalog in each slot. If the requested file is cached, the policy receives a unit reward and zero rewards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Fathima Zarin Faizal , Priya Singh , Nikhil Karamchandani , Sharayu Moharir

In this study, we investigated several online and semi-online scheduling problems on two hierarchical machines with a common due date to maximize the total early work. For the pure online case, we designed an optimal online algorithm with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Man Xiao , Xiaoqiao Liu , Weidong Li , Xin Chen , Malgorzata Sterna , Jacek Blazewicz

Though competitive analysis has been a very useful performance measure for the quality of online algorithms, it is recognized that it sometimes fails to distinguish between algorithms of different quality in practice. A number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Joan Boyar , Kim S. Larsen , Abyayananda Maiti

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that answers queries about a property of the current graph while supporting graph modifications such as edge insertions and deletions. Prior work has shown strong conditional lower bounds for…

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