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Metric embeddings into structured spaces, particularly hierarchically well-separated trees (HSTs), are a fundamental tool in the design of online algorithms. In the classical online embedding setting, points arrive sequentially and must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Christian Coester , Yichen Huang

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

Online forecasting under a changing environment has been a problem of increasing importance in many real-world applications. In this paper, we consider the meta-algorithm presented in \citet{zhang2017dynamic} combined with different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Anant Raj , Pierre Gaillard , Christophe Saad

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

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

The main goal of this paper is to formalize and explore a connection between chromatic properties of graphs with geometric representations and competitive analysis of on-line algorithms, which became apparent after the recent construction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Tomasz Krawczyk , Bartosz Walczak

In this paper we consider several related online computation problems. First, we study answering sequences of statistical queries arriving online, and being answered immediately when they arrive with differential privacy. Known matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aleksandar Nikolov , Haohua Tang , Jonathan Ullman

In this paper, we prove that it is possible to estimate online the parameters of a classical vector linear regression equation $ Y=\Omega \theta$, where $ Y \in \mathbb{R}^n,\;\Omega \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times q}$ are bounded, measurable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Marina Korotina , Jose Guadalupe Romero , Stanislav Aranovskiy , Alexey Bobtsov , Romeo Ortega

We consider online packing problems where we get a stream of axis-parallel rectangles. The rectangles have to be placed in the plane without overlapping, and each rectangle must be placed without knowing the subsequent rectangles. The goal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Lorenzo Beretta

We investigate several online packing problems in which convex polygons arrive one by one and have to be placed irrevocably into a container, while the aim is to minimize the used space. Among other variants, we consider strip packing and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anders Aamand , Mikkel Abrahamsen , Lorenzo Beretta , Linda Kleist

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

In this paper, we propose a new measure for detecting overlap in multivariate Gaussian clusters. The aim of online learning from data streams is to create clustering, classification, or regression models that can adapt over time based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Miha Ožbot , Igor Škrjanc

Online Set Cover and Load Balancing are central problems in online optimization, and there is a long line of work on developing algorithms for these problems with convex objectives. Although we know optimal online algorithms with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Thomas Kesselheim , Marco Molinaro , Kalen Patton , Sahil Singla

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 consider the following online optimization problem. We are given a graph $G$ and each vertex of the graph is assigned to one of $\ell$ servers, where servers have capacity $k$ and we assume that the graph has $\ell \cdot k$ vertices.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid

We introduce a natural online allocation problem that connects several of the most fundamental problems in online optimization. Let $M$ be an $n$-point metric space. Consider a resource that can be allocated in arbitrary fractions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nikhil Bansal , Christian Coester

We consider discrete, iterative load balancing via matchings on arbitrary graphs. Initially each node holds a certain number of tokens, defining the load of the node, and the objective is to redistribute the tokens such that eventually each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Petra Berenbrink , Robert Elsässer , Tom Friedetzky , Hamed Hosseinpour , Dominik Kaaser , Peter Kling , Thomas Sauerwald

This paper investigates the problem of online prediction learning, where learning proceeds continuously as the agent interacts with an environment. The predictions made by the agent are contingent on a particular way of behaving,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Sina Ghiassian , Andrew Patterson , Martha White , Richard S. Sutton , Adam White

Traditional generalization results in statistical learning require a training data set made of independently drawn examples. Most of the recent efforts to relax this independence assumption have considered either purely temporal (mixing)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-14 Baptiste Abélès , Eugenio Clerico , Gergely Neu

This paper studies a distributed online constrained optimization problem over time-varying unbalanced digraphs without explicit subgradients. In sharp contrast to the existing algorithms, we design a novel consensus-based distributed online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Yongyang Xiong , Xiang Li , Keyou You , Ligang Wu