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This paper presents a new research direction for the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) - a problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC'16). In the original version of this problem, we are given an $n$-point metric space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mathieu Mari , Michał Pawłowski , Runtian Ren , Piotr Sankowski

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

In the online metric matching problem, $n$ servers and $n$ requests lie in a metric space. Servers are available upfront, and requests arrive sequentially. An arriving request must be matched immediately and irrevocably to an available…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yingxi Li , Ellen Vitercik , Mingwei Yang

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

In the online metric bipartite matching problem, we are given a set $S$ of server locations in a metric space. Requests arrive one at a time, and on its arrival, we need to immediately and irrevocably match it to a server at a cost which is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sharath Raghvendra

We consider the problem of online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) introduced by Emek et al. (STOC 2016). In this problem, an even number of requests appear in a metric space at different times and the goal of an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Paweł Schmidt

This paper studies a new online problem, referred to as \emph{min-cost perfect matching with delays (MPMD)}, defined over a finite metric space (i.e., a complete graph with positive edge weights obeying the triangle inequality)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Roger Wattenhofer

Within the context of stochastic probing with commitment, we consider the online stochastic matching problem; that is, the one sided online bipartite matching problem where edges adjacent to an online node must be probed to determine if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury , Akash Rakheja

We study the online minimum cost bipartite perfect matching with delays problem. In this problem, $m$ servers and $m$ requests arrive over time, and an online algorithm can delay the matching between servers and requests by paying the delay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Tung-Wei Kuo

In the classical Online Metric Matching problem, we are given a metric space with $k$ servers. A collection of clients arrive in an online fashion, and upon arrival, a client should irrevocably be matched to an as-yet-unmatched server. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Varun Gupta , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sai Sandeep

Online matching has received significant attention over the last 15 years due to its close connection to Internet advertising. As the seminal work of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani has an optimal (1 - 1/e) competitive ratio in the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Brian Brubach , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

In the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, 2 m requests arrive over time at points of a metric space. An online algorithm has to connect these requests in pairs, but a decision to match may be postponed till a more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Paweł Schmidt

We consider the online minimum cost matching problem on the line, in which there are $n$ servers and, at each of $n$ time steps, a request arrives and must be irrevocably matched to a server that has not yet been matched to, with the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eric Balkanski , Yuri Faenza , Noemie Perivier

Low-distortional metric embeddings are a crucial component in the modern algorithmic toolkit. In an online metric embedding, points arrive sequentially and the goal is to embed them into a simple space irrevocably, while minimizing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sujoy Bhore , Arnold Filtser , Csaba D. Tóth

We study the online stochastic matching problem. Consider a bipartite graph with offline vertices on one side, and with i.i.d.online vertices on the other side. The offline vertices and the distribution of online vertices are known to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhiyi Huang , Xinkai Shu

We consider the online Minimum-Cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC 2016), in which a general metric space is given, and requests are submitted in different times in this space by an adversary.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yossi Azar , Amit Jacob-Fanani

We consider the problem of online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) recently introduced by Emek et al, (STOC 2016). This problem is defined on an underlying $n$-point metric space. An adversary presents real-time requests online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Yossi Azar , Ashish Chiplunkar , Haim Kaplan

Motivated by display advertising on the internet, the online stochastic matching problem is proposed by Feldman, Mehta, Mirrokni, and Muthukrishnan (FOCS 2009). Consider a stochastic bipartite graph with offline vertices on one side and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhihao Gavin Tang , Hongxun Wu , Jinzhao Wu

We study the online stochastic matching problem. Against the offline benchmark, Feldman, Gravin, and Lucier (SODA 2015) designed an optimal $0.5$-competitive algorithm. A recent line of work, initiated by Papadimitriou, Pollner, Saberi, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Enze Sun , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yifan Wang

We study the online unweighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival order model, with $n$ offline and $n$ online vertices, in the learning-augmented setting: The algorithm is provided with untrusted predictions of the types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kunanon Burathep , Thomas Erlebach , William K. Moses
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