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The state of the art in approximation algorithms for facility location problems are complicated combinations of various techniques. In particular, the currently best 1.488-approximation algorithm for the uncapacitated facility location…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Jaroslaw Byrka , Shanfei Li , Bartosz Rybicki

In this paper, we provide a rigorous theoretical investigation of an online learning version of the Facility Location problem which is motivated by emerging problems in real-world applications. In our formulation, we are given a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Stephen Pasteris , Ting He , Fabio Vitale , Shiqiang Wang , Mark Herbster

In this paper we study a facility location problem in the plane in which a single point (facility) and a rapid transit line (highway) are simultaneously located in order to minimize the total travel time of the clients to the facility,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 J. M. Díaz-Bañez , M. Korman , P. Pérez-Lantero , I. Ventura

This article describes a model and an exact solution method for facility location problems with decision-dependent uncertainties. The model allows characterizing the probability distribution of the random elements as a function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Giovanni Pantuso

Algorithms with predictions have attracted much attention in the last years across various domains, including variants of facility location, as a way to surpass traditional worst-case analyses. We study the $k$-facility location mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zohar Barak , Anupam Gupta , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

We study the extended version of the non-uniform, capacitated facility location problem with multiple fulfilment channels between the facilities and clients, each with their own channel capacities and service cost. Though the problem has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Etika Agarwal , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Ankit Ajit Jain , Shantala Manchenahally

We design new parallel algorithms for clustering in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. These algorithms run in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, and are fully scalable, meaning that the local memory in each machine may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Artur Czumaj , Guichen Gao , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý

We introduce an online variant of mobile facility location (MFL) (introduced by Demaine et al. [SODA' 07]). We call this new problem online mobile facility location (OMFL). In the OMFL problem, initially, we are given a set of $k$ mobile…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Abdolhamid Ghodselahi , Fabian Kuhn

In the streaming model, the order of the stream can significantly affect the difficulty of a problem. A $t$-semirandom stream was introduced as an interpolation between random-order ($t=1$) and adversarial-order ($t=n$) streams where an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Harry Lang

In Euclidean Uniform Facility Location (UFL), the input is a set of clients in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and the goal is to place facilities to serve them, so as to minimize the total cost of opening facilities plus connecting the clients. We study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Artur Czumaj , Arnold Filtser , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý , Mingwei Yang

We consider Online Facility Location in the framework of learning-augmented online algorithms. In Online Facility Location (OFL), demands arrive one-by-one in a metric space and must be (irrevocably) assigned to an open facility upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Themis Gouleakis , Nikolas Patris , Thanos Tolias

Logistics network is expected that opened facilities work continuously for a long time horizon without any failure, but in real world problems, facilities may face disruptions. This paper studies a reliable joint inventory location problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Elham Taghizadeh , Mostafa Abedzadeh , Mostafa Setak

There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Joshua Z. Sobel

Center-based clustering is a pivotal primitive for unsupervised learning and data analysis. A popular variant is undoubtedly the k-means problem, which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric space and a parameter $k<|P|$, requires to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Enrico Dandolo , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

Graph problems are troublesome when it comes to MapReduce. Typically, to be able to design algorithms that make use of the advantages of MapReduce, assumptions beyond what the model imposes, such as the density of the input graph, are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

We study the classic $k$-means/median clustering, which are fundamental problems in unsupervised learning, in the setting where data are partitioned across multiple sites, and where we are allowed to discard a small portion of the data by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jiecao Chen , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Qin Zhang

We first show that a better analysis of the algorithm for The Two-Sage Stochastic Facility Location Problem from Srinivasan \cite{sri07} and the algorithm for The Robust Fault Tolerant Facility Location Problem from Byrka et al \cite{bgs10}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Shuxin Cai , Wenguo Yang , Yaohua Tang

In this work, we use algebraic methods for studying distance computation and subgraph detection tasks in the congested clique model. Specifically, we adapt parallel matrix multiplication implementations to the congested clique, obtaining an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Keren Censor-Hillel , Petteri Kaski , Janne H. Korhonen , Christoph Lenzen , Ami Paz , Jukka Suomela

The subspace approximation problem with outliers, for given $n$ points in $d$ dimensions $x_{1},\ldots, x_{n} \in R^{d}$, an integer $1 \leq k \leq d$, and an outlier parameter $0 \leq \alpha \leq 1$, is to find a $k$-dimensional linear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Amit Deshpande , Rameshwar Pratap

In this paper we give fast distributed graph algorithms for detecting and listing small subgraphs, and for computing or approximating the girth. Our algorithms improve upon the state of the art by polynomial factors, and for girth, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Keren Censor-Hillel , Orr Fischer , Tzlil Gonen , François Le Gall , Dean Leitersdorf , Rotem Oshman