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Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) and CLOCK with Adaptive Replacement (CAR) are state-of-the- art "adaptive" cache replacement algorithms invented to improve on the shortcomings of classical cache replacement policies such as LRU, LFU and…

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Online learning algorithms have been successfully used to design caching policies with sublinear regret in the total number of requests, with no statistical assumption about the request sequence. Most existing algorithms involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Younes Ben Mazziane , Francescomaria Faticanti , Sara Alouf , Giovanni Neglia

Semi-online algorithms that are allowed to perform a bounded amount of repacking achieve guaranteed good worst-case behaviour in a more realistic setting. Most of the previous works focused on minimization problems that aim to minimize some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sebastian Berndt , Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Lukas Johannsen , Maria Kosche

We study the online metric matching problem. There are $m$ servers and $n$ requests located in a metric space, where all servers are available upfront and requests arrive one at a time. Upon the arrival of a new request, it needs to be…

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In the 1980s a new, extraordinarily productive way of reasoning about algorithms emerged. In this paper, we introduce the term "outcome reasoning" to refer to this form of reasoning. Though outcome reasoning has come to dominate areas of…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2023-02-16 Jordan Rodu , Michael Baiocchi

We analyze Decentralized Online Optimization algorithms using the Performance Estimation Problem approach which allows, to automatically compute exact worst-case performance of optimization algorithms. Our analysis shows that several…

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The organizer of a machine learning competition faces the problem of maintaining an accurate leaderboard that faithfully represents the quality of the best submission of each competing team. What makes this estimation problem particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Avrim Blum , Moritz Hardt

In this paper, we study oracle-efficient algorithms for beyond worst-case analysis of online learning. We focus on two settings. First, the smoothed analysis setting of [RST11,HRS22] where an adversary is constrained to generating samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Nika Haghtalab , Yanjun Han , Abhishek Shetty , Kunhe Yang

Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while…

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We study a general problem of allocating limited resources to heterogeneous customers over time under model uncertainty. Each type of customer can be serviced using different actions, each of which stochastically consumes some combination…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Wang Chi Cheung , Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Xinshang Wang

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

In this paper we consider several related online computation problems. First, we study answering sequences of statistical queries arriving online, and being answered immediately when they arrive with differential privacy. Known matrix…

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We develop a unified and systematic framework for performing online nonnegative matrix factorization under a wide variety of important divergences. The online nature of our algorithm makes it particularly amenable to large-scale data. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-17 Renbo Zhao , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Huan Xu

This paper investigates learning-augmented algorithms for smooth integer programs, covering canonical problems such as MAX-CUT and MAX-k-SAT. We introduce a framework that incorporates a predictive oracle to construct a linear surrogate of…

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In a typical online resource allocation problem, we start with a fixed inventory of resources and make online allocation decisions in response to resource requests that arrive sequentially over a finite horizon. We consider settings where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Suho Kang , Ziyang Liu , Rajan Udwani

We study the online list update problem under the advice model of computation. Under this model, an online algorithm receives partial information about the unknown parts of the input in the form of some bits of advice generated by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Joan Boyar , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen , Alejandro López-Ortiz

Online Contention Resolution Schemes (OCRS's) represent a modern tool for selecting a subset of elements, subject to resource constraints, when the elements are presented to the algorithm sequentially. OCRS's have led to some of the…

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Benchmark hacking refers to tuning a machine learning model to score highly on certain evaluation criteria without improving true generalization or faithfully solving the intended problem. We study this phenomenon in a generic machine…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-27 Xiaoyun Qiu , Yang Yu , Haifeng Xu

We give an algorithmic framework for minimizing general convex objectives (that are differentiable and monotone non-decreasing) over a set of covering constraints that arrive online. This substantially extends previous work on online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Yossi Azar , Ilan Reuven Cohen , Debmalya Panigrahi

We consider the problem of online planning in a Markov Decision Process when given only access to a generative model, restricted to open-loop policies - i.e. sequences of actions - and under budget constraint. In this setting, the Open-Loop…

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