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Motivated by demand-responsive parking pricing systems, we consider posted-price algorithms for the online metric matching problem. We give an $O(\log n)$-competitive posted-price randomized algorithm in the case that the metric space is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Stephen Arndt , Josh Ascher , Kirk Pruhs

We consider a generalization of the fundamental online metrical service systems (MSS) problem where the feasible region can be transformed between requests. In this problem, which we call T-MSS, an algorithm maintains a point in a metric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sébastien Bubeck , Niv Buchbinder , Christian Coester , Mark Sellke

This paper improves the state-of-the-art rate of a first-order algorithm for solving entropy regularized optimal transport. The resulting rate for approximating the optimal transport (OT) has been improved from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yiling Luo , Yiling Xie , Xiaoming Huo

Optimal transport (OT) serves as a natural framework for comparing probability measures, with applications in statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. Alas, statistical estimation and exact computation of the OT distances…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Tao Wang , Ziv Goldfeld

We consider online algorithms under both the competitive ratio criteria and the regret minimization one. Our main goal is to build a unified methodology that would be able to guarantee both criteria simultaneously. For a general class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Amit Daniely , Yishay Mansour

In this paper, we settle the randomized $k$-sever conjecture for the following metric spaces: line, circle, Hierarchically well-separated tree (HST). Specially, we show that there are $O(\log k)$-competitive randomized $k$-sever algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Wenbin Chen

In this paper, we consider the online version of the machine minimization problem (introduced by Chuzhoy et al., FOCS 2004), where the goal is to schedule a set of jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing lengths on a minimum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nikhil Devanur , Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

We propose a $O(\log k \log n)$-competitive randomized algorithm for online node-weighted Steiner forest. This is essentially optimal and significantly improves over the previous bound of $O(\log^2 k \log n)$ by Hajiaghayi et al. [2017]. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sander Borst , Marek Eliáš , Moritz Venzin

Unfair metrical task systems are a generalization of online metrical task systems. In this paper we introduce new techniques to combine algorithms for unfair metrical task systems and apply these techniques to obtain improved randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Amos Fiat , Manor Mendel

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

In this paper, we study the Min-cost Perfect $k$-way Matching with Delays ($k$-MPMD), recently introduced by Melnyk et al. In the problem, $m$ requests arrive one-by-one over time in a metric space. At any time, we can irrevocably make a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Naonori Kakimura , Tomohiro Nakayoshi

We study the online variant of the Min-Sum Set Cover (MSSC) problem, a generalization of the well-known list update problem. In the MSSC problem, an algorithm has to maintain the time-varying permutation of the list of $n$ elements, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Mateusz Basiak , Marcin Bienkowski , Agnieszka Tatarczuk

Developing a contemporary optimal transport (OT) solver requires navigating trade-offs among several critical requirements: GPU parallelization, scalability to high-dimensional problems, theoretical convergence guarantees, empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mete Kemertas , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Allan D. Jepson

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 consider the design of sublinear space and query complexity algorithms for estimating the cost of a minimum spanning tree (MST) and the cost of a minimum traveling salesman (TSP) tour in a metric on $n$ points. We first consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Zihan Tan

In the online multiple knapsack problem, an algorithm faces a stream of items, and each item has to be either rejected or stored irrevocably in one of $n$ bins (knapsacks) of equal size. The gain of an~algorithm is equal to the sum of sizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Marcin Bienkowski , Maciej Pacut , Krzysztof Piecuch

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 present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is $O(\log^2n)$ bits and it converges in $O(n^2)$ rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-26 Lélia Blin , Shlomi Dolev , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis

We consider the following problem: We are given $\ell$ heuristics for Metrical Task Systems (MTS), where each might be tailored to a different type of input instances. While processing an input instance received online, we are allowed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Matei Gabriel Coşa , Marek Eliáš

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