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In this paper, we study three matching problems all of which came up quite recently in the field of machine teaching. The cost of a matching is defined in such a way that, for some formal model of teaching, it equals (or bounds) the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Hans U. Simon , Jan Arne Telle

Automating algorithm configuration is growing increasingly necessary as algorithms come with more and more tunable parameters. It is common to tune parameters using machine learning, optimizing performance metrics such as runtime and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Maria-Florina Balcan , Tuomas Sandholm , Ellen Vitercik

Many different machine learning algorithms exist; taking into account each algorithm's hyperparameters, there is a staggeringly large number of possible alternatives overall. We consider the problem of simultaneously selecting a learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Chris Thornton , Frank Hutter , Holger H. Hoos , Kevin Leyton-Brown

We study the restricted case of Scheduling on Unrelated Parallel Machines. In this problem, we are given a set of jobs $J$ with processing times $p_j$ and each job may be scheduled only on some subset of machines $S_j \subseteq M$. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Chidambaram Annamalai

In this paper we develop theory of sequential parametrized motion planning which generalises the approach of parametrized motion planning, which was introduced recently in [3]. A sequential parametrized motion planning algorithm produced a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Michael Farber , Amit Kumar Paul

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks, which exploit the massive parallelism of computing clusters to expedite ML training. However, the proliferation of distributed ML frameworks also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Menglu Yu , Jia Liu , Chuan Wu , Bo Ji , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Schematic maps are in daily use to show the connectivity of subway systems and to facilitate travellers to plan their journeys effectively. This study surveys up-to-date algorithmic approaches in order to give an overview of the state of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-16 Hsiang-Yun Wu , Benjamin Niedermann , Shigeo Takahashi , Martin Nöllenburg

Algorithms typically come with tunable parameters that have a considerable impact on the computational resources they consume. Too often, practitioners must hand-tune the parameters, a tedious and error-prone task. A recent line of research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Maria-Florina Balcan , Tuomas Sandholm , Ellen Vitercik

Algorithms with predictions is a recent framework that has been used to overcome pessimistic worst-case bounds in incomplete information settings. In the context of scheduling, very recent work has leveraged machine-learned predictions to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Eric Balkanski , Tingting Ou , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

In this paper we present efficient algorithmic solutions for several constrained resource allocation, management and discovery problems. We consider new types of resource allocation models and constraints, and we present new geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Daniel Ardelean

This chapter compiles a number of results that apply the theory of parameterized algorithmics to the running-time analysis of randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms. The parameterized approach articulates the running…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Frank Neumann , Andrew M. Sutton

In resolving instances of a computational problem, if multiple instances of interest share a feature in common, it may be fruitful to compile this feature into a format that allows for more efficient resolution, even if the compilation is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Hubie Chen

Machine learning assumes a pivotal role in our data-driven world. The increasing scale of models and datasets necessitates quick and reliable algorithms for model training. This dissertation investigates adaptivity in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Slavomír Hanzely

During recent years the field of fine-grained complexity has bloomed to produce a plethora of results, with both applied and theoretical impact on the computer science community. The cornerstone of the framework is the notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Elli Anastasiadi , Antonis Antonopoulos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stavros Petsalakis

Constraint programming is used for a variety of real-world optimisation problems, such as planning, scheduling and resource allocation problems. At the same time, one continuously gathers vast amounts of data about these problems. Current…

We study approximation algorithms for scheduling problems with the objective of minimizing total weighted completion time, under identical and related machine models with job precedence constraints. We give algorithms that improve upon many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Shi Li

The research area of algorithms with predictions has seen recent success showing how to incorporate machine learning into algorithm design to improve performance when the predictions are correct, while retaining worst-case guarantees when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Michael Dinitz , Sungjin Im , Thomas Lavastida , Benjamin Moseley , Sergei Vassilvitskii

We introduce a natural but seemingly yet unstudied generalization of the problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine so as to minimize the number of tardy jobs. Our generalization lies in simultaneously considering several instances of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Dvir Shabtay

We consider a set of transmitter-receiver pairs, or links, that share a common channel and address the problem of emptying backlogged queues at the transmitters in minimum time. The problem amounts to determining activation subsets of links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Vangelis Angelakis , Anthony Ephremides , Qing He , Di Yuan

The paper faces the problem of scheduling from a new perspective, trying to bridge the gap between classical heuristic approaches and system identification and control strategies. To this aim, a complete mathematical formulation of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-12-02 Giacomo Innocenti , Luca Pretini