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We propose a model for online graph problems where algorithms are given access to an oracle that predicts (e.g., based on modeling assumptions or on past data) the degrees of nodes in the graph. Within this model, we study the classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk

This paper studies an online cost optimization problem for distributed storage and access. The goal is to dynamically create and delete copies of data objects over time at geo-distributed servers to serve access requests and minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianyu Zuo , Xueyan Tang , Bu Sung Lee , Jianfei Cai

Huang et al.~(STOC 2018) introduced the fully online matching problem, a generalization of the classic online bipartite matching problem in that it allows all vertices to arrive online and considers general graphs. They showed that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Zhiyi Huang , Binghui Peng , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Runzhou Tao , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). In particular, we seek stable matchings that are optimal with respect to profile, which is a vector that indicates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

We study the Online Traveling Salesperson Problem (OLTSP) with predictions. In OLTSP, a sequence of initially unknown requests arrive over time at points (locations) of a metric space. The goal is, starting from a particular point of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Evripidis Bampis , Bruno Escoffier , Themis Gouleakis , Niklas Hahn , Kostas Lakis , Golnoosh Shahkarami , Michalis Xefteris

Given two point sets S and T, we study the many-to-many matching with demands problem (MMD problem) which is a generalization of the many-to-many matching problem (MM problem). In an MMD, each point of one set must be matched to a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Fatemeh Rajabi-Alni , Alireza Bagheri

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

Matching problems with group-fairness constraints and diversity constraints have numerous applications such as in allocation problems, committee selection, school choice, etc. Moreover, online matching problems have lots of applications in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Anand Louis , Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Govind S. Sankar

The time-optimal $k$-server problem minimizes the time spent serving all requests instead of the distances traveled. We give a lower bound of $2k-1$ on the competitive ratio of any deterministic online algorithm for this problem, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Fabian Frei , Dennis Komm , Moritz Stocker , Philip Whittington

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

In the model of online caching with machine learned advice, introduced by Lykouris and Vassilvitskii, the goal is to solve the caching problem with an online algorithm that has access to next-arrival predictions: when each input element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Dhruv Rohatgi

Learning-augmented algorithms have received significant attention in recent years, particularly in the context of online optimization. Motivated by the high computational cost of generating predictions, a growing line of work studies the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yongho Shin , Phanu Vajanopath

We show how to restrict the analysis of a class of online problems that includes the $k$-server problem in finite metrics such that we only have to consider finite sequences of request. When applying the restrictions, both the optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Tobias Mömke

In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Or Vardi

In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to describe how search service providers charge client companies based on users' queries for the keywords related to these companies' ads by using certain advertisement assignment strategies. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Bo Tan , R. Srikant

In this paper we examine problems motivated by on-line financial problems and stochastic games. In particular, we consider a sequence of entirely arbitrary distinct values arriving in random order, and must devise strategies for selecting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming-Yang Kao , Stephen R. Tate

A dynamic bipartite matching model is given by a bipartite matching graph which determines the possible matchings between the various types of supply and demand items. Both supply and demand items arrive to the system according to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Arnaud Cadas , Ana Bušić , Josu Doncel

We introduce a simple benchmark model of dynamic matching in networked markets, where agents arrive and depart stochastically and the network of acceptable transactions among agents forms a random graph. We analyze our model from three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Mohammad Akbarpour , Shengwu Li , Shayan Oveis Gharan

Given two point sets $S$ and $T$, the minimum-cost many-to-many matching with demands (MMD) problem is the problem of finding a minimum-cost many-to-many matching between $S$ and $T$ such that each point of $S$ (respectively $T$) is matched…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Rajabi-Alni , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

In the matroid buyback problem, an algorithm observes a sequence of bids and must decide whether to accept each bid at the moment it arrives, subject to a matroid constraint on the set of accepted bids. Decisions to reject bids are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-30 Ashwinkumar B. V. , Robert Kleinberg