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We study the online stochastic bipartite matching problem, in a form motivated by display ad allocation on the Internet. In the online, but adversarial case, the celebrated result of Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani gives an approximation ratio…

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Over the past decade, community detection in overlapping un-weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities, has been one of the most popular topics in modern network science. However, community detection in overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Huan Qing

Ride sharing has important implications in terms of environmental, social and individual goals by reducing carbon footprints, fostering social interactions and economizing commuter costs. The ride sharing systems that are commonly available…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Shaona Ghosh , Kevin Page , David De Roure

Our work introduces the effect of supply/demand imbalances into the literature on online matching with stochastic rewards in bipartite graphs. We provide a parameterized definition that characterizes instances as over- or undersupplied (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Benjamin Barrientos , Daniel Freund , Daniela Saban

The rapid growth of the ride-hailing industry has revolutionized urban transportation worldwide. Despite its benefits, equity concerns arise as underserved communities face limited accessibility to affordable ride-hailing services. A key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xiaotong Guo , Hanyong Xu , Dingyi Zhuang , Yunhan Zheng , Jinhua Zhao

We study the performance of a proportional weights algorithm for online capacitated bipartite matching modeling the delivery of impression ads. The algorithm uses predictions on the advertiser nodes to match arriving impression nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Thomas Lavastida , Benjamin Moseley , R. Ravi , Chenyang Xu

In this paper we study the generalized version of weighted matching in bipartite networks. Consider a weighted matching in a bipartite network in which the nodes derive value from the split of the matching edge assigned to them if they are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Ankur Mani , Asuman Ozdaglar , Alex , Pentland

We study the rent-or-buy variant of the online Steiner forest problem on node- and edge-weighted graphs. For $n$-node graphs with at most $\bar{n}$ non-zero node-weights, and at most $\tilde{k}$ different arriving terminal pairs, we obtain…

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Graph matching is a fruitful area in terms of both algorithms and theories. In this paper, we exploit the degree information, which was previously used only in noiseless graphs and perfectly-overlapping Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graphs…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-08 Yaofang Hu , Wanjie Wang , Yi Yu

Graph alignment aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs, a task that frequently occurs in graph mining applications such as social network analysis. Attributed graph alignment is a variant of graph alignment,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ziao Wang , Ning Zhang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

Recently bipartite graphs have been widely used to represent the relationship two sets of items for information retrieval applications. The Web offers a wide range of data which can be represented by bipartite graphs, such us movies and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Antonia Korba

Finding a maximum-weight matching is a classical and well-studied problem in computer science, solvable in cubic time in general graphs. We consider the specialization called assignment problem where the input is a bipartite graph, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Romaric Duvignau , Noël Gillet , Ralf Klasing

We study the problem of dynamic matching in heterogeneous networks, where agents are subject to compatibility restrictions and stochastic arrival and departure times. In particular, we consider networks with one type of easy-to-match agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xiaowu Dai , Hengzhi He

This paper analyzes the problem of assigning weights to edges incrementally in a dynamic complete bipartite graph consisting of producer and consumer nodes. The objective is to minimize the overall cost while satisfying certain constraints.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Ankur Sahai

We study generalizations of online bipartite matching in which each arriving vertex (customer) views a ranked list of offline vertices (products) and matches to (purchases) the first one they deem acceptable. The number of products that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Brian Brubach , Nathaniel Grammel , Will Ma , Aravind Srinivasan

Significant development of ride-sharing services presents a plethora of opportunities to transform urban mobility by providing personalized and convenient transportation while ensuring efficiency of large-scale ride pooling. However, a core…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Marina Haliem , Ganapathy Mani , Vaneet Aggarwal , Bharat Bhargava

A large number of applications such as querying sensor networks, and analyzing protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, rely on mining uncertain graph and hypergraph databases. In this work we study the following problem: given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Shreyas Sekar , Johnson Lam , Liu Yang

Autonomous vehicles will be an integral part of ride-sharing services in the future. This setting differs from traditional ride-sharing marketplaces because of the absence of the supply side (drivers). However, it has far-reaching…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Diptangshu Sen , Arnob Ghosh

Taxi services and product delivery services are instrumental for our modern society. Thanks to the emergence of sharing economy, ride-sharing services such as Uber, Didi, Lyft and Google's Waze Rider are becoming more ubiquitous and grow…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yongzheng Jia , Wei Xu , Xue Liu

With the impressive growth of network models in practically every scientific and technological area, we are often faced with the need to compare graphs, i.e., to quantify their (dis)similarity using appropriate metrics. This is necessary,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Carlo Piccardi