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Online learning constitutes a mathematical and compelling framework to analyze sequential decision making problems in adversarial environments. The learner repeatedly chooses an action, the environment responds with an outcome, and then the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Mehrdad Mahdavi , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin

We study online decision making problems under resource constraints, where both reward and cost functions are drawn from distributions that may change adversarially over time. We focus on two canonical settings: $(i)$ online resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Francesco Emanuele Stradi , Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti , Christian Kroer

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

When deploying machine learning solutions, they must satisfy multiple requirements beyond accuracy, such as fairness, robustness, or safety. These requirements are imposed during training either implicitly, using penalties, or explicitly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ignacio Hounie , Alejandro Ribeiro , Luiz F. O. Chamon

In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to describe how search service providers charge client companies based on users' queries for the keywords related to these companies' ads by using certain advertisement assignment strategies. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Bo Tan , R. Srikant

To support reliable and low-latency communication, Time-Sensitive Networking introduced protocols and interfaces for resource allocation in Ethernet. However, the implementation of these allocation algorithms has not yet been covered by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Lisa Maile , Kai-Steffen Hielscher , Reinhard German

This work proposes a novel learning driven bandwidth optimization framework called DRASTIC (Dynamic Resource Allocation for Slicing in Task aware Closed loop tactile Internet applications). The proposed framework dynamically allocates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Narges Golmohammadi , Madan Mohan Rayguru , Sabur Baidya

The online assignment problem plays an important role in operational research and computer science which is why immense attention has been given to improving its solution quality. Due to the incomplete information about the input, it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Clarence Gabriel R. Kasilag , Pollux M. Rey , Jhoirene B. Clemente

We investigate an optimization problem in a queueing system where the service provider selects the optimal service fee p and service capacity \mu to maximize the cumulative expected profit (the service revenue minus the capacity cost and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Xinyun Chen , Guiyu Hong , Yunan Liu

The modern network aims to prioritize critical traffic over non-critical traffic and effectively manage traffic flow. This necessitates proper buffer management to prevent the loss of crucial traffic while minimizing the impact on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Ya-Chun Liang , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

In this paper, we study a general online linear programming problem whose formulation encompasses many practical dynamic resource allocation problems, including internet advertising display applications, revenue management, various routing,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Patrick Jaillet , Xin Lu

Given the rapid rise in energy demand by data centers and computing systems in general, it is fundamental to incorporate energy considerations when designing (scheduling) algorithms. Machine learning can be a useful approach in practice by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Antonios Antoniadis , Peyman Jabbarzade Ganje , Golnoosh Shahkarami

In this paper, we investigate the delay-aware dynamic resource management problem for multi-service transmission in high-speed railway wireless communications, with a focus on resource allocation among the services and power control along…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Shengfeng Xu , Gang Zhu , Chao Shen , Shichao Li , Zhangdui Zhong

Evolutionary algorithms have been used to evolve a population of actors to generate diverse experiences for training reinforcement learning agents, which helps to tackle the temporal credit assignment problem and improves the exploration…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Chengpeng Hu , Jiyuan Pei , Jialin Liu , Xin Yao

Predictive business process monitoring aims at providing predictions about running instances by analyzing logs of completed cases in a business process. Recently, a lot of research focuses on increasing productivity and efficiency in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Gyunam Park , Minseok Song

We consider the problem of online resource allocation with average budget constraints. At each time point the decision maker makes an irrevocable decision of whether to accept or reject a request before the next request arrives with the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-29 Ruicheng Ao , Hongyu Chen , David Simchi-Levi , Feng Zhu

Open Radio Access Network systems, with their virtualized base stations (vBSs), offer operators the benefits of increased flexibility, reduced costs, vendor diversity, and interoperability. Optimizing the allocation of resources in a vBS is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Michail Kalntis , George Iosifidis , Fernando A. Kuipers

This paper studies delayed stochastic algorithms for weakly convex optimization in a distributed network with workers connected to a master node. Recently, Xu et al. 2022 showed that an inertial stochastic subgradient method converges at a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Wenzhi Gao , Qi Deng

With the popularity of the Internet, traditional offline resource allocation has evolved into a new form, called online resource allocation. It features the online arrivals of agents in the system and the real-time decision-making…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yifan Xu , Pan Xu , Jianping Pan , Jun Tao

This paper introduces a dual-based algorithm framework for solving the regularized online resource allocation problems, which have potentially non-concave cumulative rewards, hard resource constraints, and a non-separable regularizer. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Wanteng Ma , Ying Cao , Danny H. K. Tsang , Dong Xia