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In the classic online graph balancing problem, edges arrive sequentially and must be oriented immediately upon arrival, to minimize the maximum in-degree. For adversarial arrivals, the natural greedy algorithm is $O(\log n)$-competitive,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nikhil Bansal , Milind Prabhu , Sahil Singla , Siddharth M. Sundaram

Online allocation problems with resource constraints have a rich history in operations research. In this paper, we introduce the \emph{regularized online allocation problem}, a variant that includes a non-linear regularizer acting on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Santiago Balseiro , Haihao Lu , Vahab Mirrokni

We investigate online scheduling with commitment for parallel identical machines. Our objective is to maximize the total processing time of accepted jobs. As soon as a job has been submitted, the commitment constraint forces us to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

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

Coalition formation explores how to partition a set of $n$ agents into disjoint coalitions according to their preferences. We consider a cardinal utility model with an additively separable aggregation of preferences and study the online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Martin Bullinger , René Romen

We consider a practically motivated variant of the canonical online fair allocation problem: a decision-maker has a budget of perishable resources to allocate over a fixed number of rounds. Each round sees a random number of arrivals, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Chamsi Hssaine , Sean R. Sinclair

Inspired by sequential budgeted allocation problems, we study the online matching problem with budget refills. In this context, we consider an online bipartite graph $G=(U,V,E)$, where the nodes in $V$ are discovered sequentially and nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Maria Cherifa , Clément Calauzènes , Vianney Perchet

Motivated by sequential budgeted allocation problems, we investigate online matching problems where connections between vertices are not i.i.d., but they have fixed degree distributions -- the so-called configuration model. We estimate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nathan Noiry , Flore Sentenac , Vianney Perchet

Consider the following online version of the submodular maximization problem under a matroid constraint: We are given a set of elements over which a matroid is defined. The goal is to incrementally choose a subset that remains independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , R. Ravi , Mohit Singh

We revisit the online bipartite matching problem on $d$-regular graphs, for which Cohen and Wajc (SODA 2018) proposed an algorithm with a competitive ratio of $1-2\sqrt{H_d/d} = 1-O(\sqrt{(\log d)/d})$ and showed that it is asymptotically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yilong Feng , Haolong Li , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

We study the problem of minimizing an ordered norm of a load vector (indexed by a set of $d$ resources), where a finite number $n$ of customers $c$ contribute to the load of each resource by choosing a solution $x_c$ in a convex set $X_c…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Blankenburg , Antonia Ellerbrock , Thomas Kesselheim , Jens Vygen

We consider the allocation of limited resources to heterogeneous customers who arrive in an online fashion. We would like to allocate the resources "fairly", so that no group of customers is marginalized in terms of their overall service…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Will Ma , Pan Xu , Yifan Xu

Distributed optimization for resource allocation problems is investigated and a sub-optimal continuous-time algorithm is proposed. Our algorithm has lower order dynamics than others to reduce burdens of computation and communication, and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Shu Liang , Xianlin Zeng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong

We consider a fair resource allocation problem in the no-regret setting against an unrestricted adversary. The objective is to allocate resources equitably among several agents in an online fashion so that the difference of the aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Abhishek Sinha , Ativ Joshi , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Cameron Musco , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

We study a sequential resource allocation problem between a fixed number of arms. On each iteration the algorithm distributes a resource among the arms in order to maximize the expected success rate. Allocating more of the resource to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Yuval Dagan , Koby Crammer

We study the following vertex-weighted online bipartite matching problem: $G(U, V, E)$ is a bipartite graph. The vertices in $U$ have weights and are known ahead of time, while the vertices in $V$ arrive online in an arbitrary order and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Gagan Aggarwal , Gagan Goel , Chinmay Karande , Aranyak Mehta

The performance of many large-scale and data-intensive distributed systems critically depends on the capacity of the interconnecting network. This paper is motivated by the vision of self-adjusting infrastructures whose resources can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

We investigate the problem of heterogeneous task assignment in crowdsourcing markets from the point of view of the requester, who has a collection of tasks. Workers arrive online one by one, and each declare a set of feasible tasks they can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Sepehr Assadi , Justin Hsu , Shahin Jabbari

The online weighted matching problem is a fundamental problem in machine learning due to its numerous applications. Despite many efforts in this area, existing algorithms are either too slow or don't take $\mathrm{deadline}$ (the longest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Zhao Song , Weixin Wang , Chenbo Yin , Junze Yin