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Computing lower and upper bounds on the competitive ratio of online algorithms is a challenging question: For a minimization combinatorial problem, proving a competitive ratio for a given algorithm leads to an upper bound. However computing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Antoine Lhomme , Olivier Romane , Nicolas Catusse , Nadia Brauner

There is a rising interest for studying the online benchmark as an alternative of the classical offline benchmark in online stochastic settings. Ezra, Feldman, Gravin, and Tang (SODA 2023) introduced the notion of order-competitive ratio,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Liyan Chen , Nuozhou Sun , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We consider online scheduling on multiple machines for jobs arriving one-by-one with the objective of minimizing the makespan. For any number of identical parallel or uniformly related machines, we provide a competitive-ratio approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Nicole Megow , Andreas Wiese

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 online Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) on the line augmented with machine-learned predictions. In the classical problem, there is a stream of requests released over time along the real line. The goal is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Themis Gouleakis , Konstantinos Lakis , Golnoosh Shahkarami

In the online hypergraph matching problem, hyperedges of size $k$ over a common ground set arrive online in adversarial order. The goal is to obtain a maximum matching (disjoint set of hyperedges). A na\"ive greedy algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Thorben Tröbst , Rajan Udwani

We consider online packing problems where we get a stream of axis-parallel rectangles. The rectangles have to be placed in the plane without overlapping, and each rectangle must be placed without knowing the subsequent rectangles. The goal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Lorenzo Beretta

In the online metric traveling salesperson problem, $n$ points of a metric space arrive one by one and have to be placed (immediately and irrevocably) into empty cells of a size-$n$ array. The goal is to minimize the sum of distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Christian Bertram

We introduce a new measure for the performance of online algorithms in Bayesian settings, where the input is drawn from a known prior, but the realizations are revealed one-by-one in an online fashion. Our new measure is called…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Tomer Ezra , Michal Feldman , Nick Gravin , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We consider the open online dial-a-ride problem, where transportation requests appear online in a metric space and need to be served by a single server. The objective is to minimize the completion time until all requests have been served.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Julia Baligacs , Yann Disser , Nils Mosis , David Weckbecker

The hitting set problem is one of the fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization and is well-studied in offline setup. We consider the online hitting set problem, where only the set of points is known in advance, and objects are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Minati De , Ratnadip Mandal , Satyam Singh

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

The online stochastic matching problem was introduced by [FMMM09], together with the $(1-\frac1e)$-competitive Suggested Matching algorithm. In the most general edge-weighted setting, this ratio has not been improved for more than one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuyi Yan

The problem of online matching with stochastic rewards is a generalization of the online bipartite matching problem where each edge has a probability of success. When a match is made it succeeds with the probability of the corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Vineet Goyal , Rajan Udwani

We study Online Convex Optimization (OCO) with adversarial constraints, where an online algorithm must make sequential decisions to minimize both convex loss functions and cumulative constraint violations. We focus on a setting where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Jordan Lekeufack , Michael I. Jordan

Modern data centers face a key challenge of effectively serving user requests that arrive online. Such requests are inherently multi-dimensional and characterized by demand vectors over multiple resources such as processor cycles, storage…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Sungjin Im , Nathaniel Kell , Janardhan Kulkarni , Debmalya Panigrahi

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

We consider the online convex optimization (OCO) problem with quadratic and linear switching cost in the limited information setting, where an online algorithm can choose its action using only gradient information about the previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Spandan Senapati , Rahul Vaze

We study the $b$-matching problem in bipartite graphs $G=(S,R,E)$. Each vertex $s\in S$ is a server with individual capacity $b_s$. The vertices $r\in R$ are requests that arrive online and must be assigned instantly to an eligible server.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Susanne Albers , Sebastian Schubert

We present results on new variants of the famous linear search (or cow-path) problem that involves an agent searching for a target with unknown position on the infinite line. We consider the variant where the agent can move either at speed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Jared Coleman , Oscar Morales-Ponce