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We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks, which exploit the massive parallelism of computing clusters to expedite ML training. However, the proliferation of distributed ML frameworks also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Menglu Yu , Jia Liu , Chuan Wu , Bo Ji , Elizabeth S. Bentley

In the online matching on the line problem, the task is to match a set of requests $R$ online to a given set of servers $S$. The distance metric between any two points in $R\,\cup\, S$ is a line metric and the objective for the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Antonios Antoniadis , Carsten Fischer , Andreas Tönnis

Motivated by cloud computing applications, we study the problem of how to optimally deploy new hardware subject to both power and robustness constraints. To model the situation observed in large-scale data centers, we introduce the Online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Konstantina Mellou , Marco Molinaro , Rudy Zhou

We consider the online machine minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. Our main result is a general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

Decentralized online convex optimization (D-OCO), where multiple agents within a network collaboratively learn optimal decisions in real-time, arises naturally in applications such as federated learning, sensor networks, and multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-14 Hao Qiu , Mengxiao Zhang , Juliette Achddou

In the research field of big data, one of important issues is how to recover the sequentially changing sets of true features when the data sets arrive sequentially. The paper presents a general framework for online updating variable…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-22 Xiaoyu Ma , Lu Lin , Yujie Gai

In the online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, $m$ requests in a metric space are submitted at different times by an adversary. The goal is to match all requests while (i) minimizing the sum of the distances between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Marc Dufay , Roger Wattenhofer

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

We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

We present a flexible framework for the automated competitive analysis of on-line scheduling algorithms for firm-deadline real-time tasks based on multi-objective graphs: Given a taskset and an on-line scheduling algorithm specified as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Alexander Kößler , Ulrich Schmid

Many data analytics systems store and process large datasets in partitions containing millions of rows. By mapping rows to partitions in an optimized way, it is possible to improve query performance by skipping over large numbers of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kexin Rong , Paul Liu , Sarah Ashok Sonje , Moses Charikar

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising solution for servicing delay-sensitive tasks at the edge network. A body of recent literature started to focus on cost-efficient service placement and request scheduling. This work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Lina Su , Ne Wang , Ruiting Zhou , Zongpeng Li

We study the online metric matching problem. There are $m$ servers and $n$ requests located in a metric space, where all servers are available upfront and requests arrive one at a time. Upon the arrival of a new request, it needs to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mingwei Yang , Sophie H. Yu

Online algorithms with predictions is a popular and elegant framework for bypassing pessimistic lower bounds in competitive analysis. In this model, online algorithms are supplied with future predictions, and the goal is for the competitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Noam Touitou

Set cover and hitting set are fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization which are well-studied in the offline, online, and dynamic settings. We study the geometric versions of these problems and present new online and dynamic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Arindam Khan , Aditya Lonkar , Saladi Rahul , Aditya Subramanian , Andreas Wiese

We study a fundamental online job admission problem where jobs with deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates, and the task is to determine a preemptive single-server schedule which maximizes the number of jobs that complete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Lin Chen , Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior , Cliff Stein

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We describe a framework for deriving and analyzing online optimization algorithms that incorporate adaptive, data-dependent regularization, also termed preconditioning. Such algorithms have been proven useful in stochastic optimization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Vineet Gupta , Tomer Koren , Yoram Singer

Machine learning algorithms are designed to make accurate predictions of the future based on existing data, while online algorithms seek to bound some performance measure (typically the competitive ratio) without knowledge of the future.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Kevin Rao