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In this paper, we present algorithms for designing networks that are robust to node failures with minimal or limited number of links. We present algorithms for both the static network setting and the dynamic network setting; setting where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Deepan Muthirayan , Pramod P. Khargonekar

The classical algorithms for online learning and decision-making have the benefit of achieving the optimal performance guarantees, but suffer from computational complexity limitations when implemented at scale. More recent sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guanghui Wang , Zihao Hu , Vidya Muthukumar , Jacob Abernethy

We consider the following online optimization problem. We are given a graph $G$ and each vertex of the graph is assigned to one of $\ell$ servers, where servers have capacity $k$ and we assume that the graph has $\ell \cdot k$ vertices.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid

How to efficiently perform network tomography is a fundamental problem in network management and monitoring. A network tomography task usually consists of applying multiple probing experiments, e.g., across different paths or via different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xuchuang Wang , Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Matheus Guedes de Andrade , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , John C. S. Lui , Ting He , Don Towsley

While online bipartite matching has gained significant attention in recent years, existing analyses in stochastic settings fail to capture the performance of algorithms on heterogeneous graphs, such as those incorporating inter-group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Maria Cherifa , Clément Calauzènes , Vianney Perchet

We revisit the question of reducing online learning to approximate optimization of the offline problem. In this setting, we give two algorithms with near-optimal performance in the full information setting: they guarantee optimal regret and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Elad Hazan , Wei Hu , Yuanzhi Li , Zhiyuan Li

Online caching is among the most fundamental and well-studied problems in the area of online algorithms. Innovative algorithmic ideas and analysis -- including potential functions and primal-dual techniques -- give insight into this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sharat Ibrahimpur , Manish Purohit , Zoya Svitkina , Erik Vee , Joshua R. Wang

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Principal component analysis (PCA) has been a prominent tool for high-dimensional data analysis. Online algorithms that estimate the principal component by processing streaming data are of tremendous practical and theoretical interests.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Chris Junchi Li , Mengdi Wang , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

We revisit the problem of maximising the expected length of increasing subsequence that can be selected from a marked Poisson process by an online strategy. Resorting to a natural size variable, the problem is represented in terms of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Alexander Gnedin , Amirlan Seksenbayev

For two matroids $\mathcal{M}_1$ and $\mathcal{M}_2$ defined on the same ground set $E$, the online matroid intersection problem is to design an algorithm that constructs a large common independent set in an online fashion. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Guru Guruganesh , Sahil Singla

This paper investigates the problem of tracking solutions of stochastic optimization problems with time-varying costs that depend on random variables with decision-dependent distributions. In this context, we propose the use of an online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Killian Wood , Gianluca Bianchin , Emiliano Dall'Anese

This work considers the problem of decentralized online learning, where the goal is to track the optimum of the sum of time-varying functions, distributed across several nodes in a network. The local availability of the functions and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shivangi Dubey Sharma , Ketan Rajawat

We develop algorithms with low regret for learning episodic Markov decision processes based on kernel approximation techniques. The algorithms are based on both the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) as well as Posterior or Thompson Sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Aditya Gopalan

Online algorithms make decisions based on past inputs. In general, the decision may depend on the entire history of inputs. If many computers run the same online algorithm with the same input stream but are started at different times, they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Maciej Pacut , Mahmoud Parham , Joel Rybicki , Stefan Schmid , Jukka Suomela , Aleksandr Tereshchenko

Advances in hardware and language model architecture have spurred a revolution in natural language generation. However, autoregressive models compute probability distributions over next-token choices, and sampling from these distributions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tom Kempton , Stuart Burrell

Finding the reduced-dimensional structure is critical to understanding complex networks. Existing approaches such as spectral clustering are applicable only when the full network is explicitly observed. In this paper, we focus on the online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Lin F. Yang , Vladimir Braverman , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang

Motivated by Internet advertising applications, online allocation problems have been studied extensively in various adversarial and stochastic models. While the adversarial arrival models are too pessimistic, many of the stochastic (such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Hossein Esfandiari , Nitish Korula , Vahab Mirrokni

We present prior robust algorithms for a large class of resource allocation problems where requests arrive one-by-one (online), drawn independently from an unknown distribution at every step. We design a single algorithm that, for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Nikhil R. Devanur , Kamal Jain , Balasubramanian Sivan , Christopher A. Wilkens