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Most practical scheduling applications involve some uncertainty about the arriving times and lengths of the jobs. Stochastic online scheduling is a well-established model capturing this. Here the arrivals occur online, while the processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sven Jäger

Motivated by a wide range of applications in data mining and machine learning, we consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function subject to supermodular cost constraints. In contrast to the well-understood setting of cardinality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ajitesh Srivastava , Shanghua Teng

This paper proposes a greedy heuristic named as Big step greedy heuristic and investigates the application of Big step greedy heuristic for maximum k-coverage problem. Greedy algorithms construct the solution in multiple steps, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Drona Pratap Chandu

We study greedy-type algorithms such that at a greedy step we pick several dictionary elements contrary to a single dictionary element in standard greedy-type algorithms. We call such greedy algorithms {\it super greedy algorithms}. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-27 Entao Liu , Vladimir N. Temlyakov

There has been a long history for studying randomized greedy matching algorithms since the work by Dyer and Frieze~(RSA 1991). We follow this trend and consider the problem formulated in the oblivious setting, in which the algorithm makes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

In this paper, we consider a subset selection problem in a spatial field where we seek to find a set of k locations whose observations provide the best estimate of the field value at a finite set of prediction locations. The measurements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Shamak Dutta , Nils Wilde , Stephen L. Smith

Motivated by applications from gig economy and online marketplaces, we study a two-sided queueing system under joint pricing and matching controls. The queueing system is modeled by a bipartite graph, where the vertices represent customer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Pornpawee Bumpensanti , Siva Theja Maguluri , He Wang

In this paper we present improved bounds for approximating maximum matchings in bipartite graphs in the streaming model. First, we consider the question of how well maximum matching can be approximated in a single pass over the input using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Michael Kapralov

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

Decision Tree is a classic formulation of active learning: given $n$ hypotheses with nonnegative weights summing to 1 and a set of tests that each partition the hypotheses, output a decision tree using the provided tests that uniquely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Ray Li , Percy Liang , Stephen Mussmann

We present a weighted approach to compute a maximum cardinality matching in an arbitrary bipartite graph. Our main result is a new algorithm that takes as input a weighted bipartite graph $G(A\cup B,E)$ with edge weights of $0$ or $1$. Let…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Nathaniel Lahn , Sharath Raghvendra

We propose a formal graph-theoretic model for studying the problem of matching rides online in a ride-sharing platform. Unlike most of the literature on online matching, our model, that we call {\em Online Windowed Non-Bipartite Matching}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Chinmoy Dutta , Chris Sholley

We study the problem of maximizing a submodular function, subject to a cardinality constraint, with a set of agents communicating over a connected graph. We propose a distributed greedy algorithm that allows all the agents to converge to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Lintao Ye , Shreyas Sundaram

We study truthful mechanisms for welfare maximization in online bipartite matching. In our (multi-parameter) setting, every buyer is associated with a (possibly private) desired set of items, and has a private value for being assigned an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Michal Feldman , Federico Fusco , Stefano Leonardi , Simon Mauras , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

While greedy algorithms have long been observed to perform well on a wide variety of problems, up to now approximation ratios have only been known for their application to problems having submodular objective functions $f$. Since many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 J. David Smith , My T. Thai

Matching and pricing are two critical levers in two-sided marketplaces to connect demand and supply. The platform can produce more efficient matching and pricing decisions by batching the demand requests. We initiate the study of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi

Greedy algorithms are a fundamental category of algorithms in mathematics and computer science, characterized by their iterative, locally optimal decision-making approach, which aims to find global optima. In this review, we will discuss…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Andrea García

Bipartite networks manifest as a stream of edges that represent transactions, e.g., purchases by retail customers. Many machine learning applications employ neighborhood-based measures to characterize the similarity among the nodes, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Liangzhen Xia

We study a foundational model of dynamic matching market with abandonment. This model has been studied by Collina et al (2020) and Aouad and Saritac (2022), and many other papers have considered special cases. We compare the performance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Nick Arnosti , Felipe Simon

We examine several online matching problems, with applications to Internet advertising reservation systems. Consider an edge-weighted bipartite graph G, with partite sets L, R. We develop an 8-competitive algorithm for the following…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-07-09 Nitish Korula , Martin Pal