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We introduce and study a family of online metric problems with long-term constraints. In these problems, an online player makes decisions $\mathbf{x}_t$ in a metric space $(X,d)$ to simultaneously minimize their hitting cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

In the problem of online unweighted interval selection, the objective is to maximize the number of non-conflicting intervals accepted by the algorithm. In the conventional online model of irrevocable decisions, there is an Omega(n) lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis

Following a line of work that takes advantage of vast machine-learned data to enhance online algorithms with (possibly erroneous) information about future inputs, we consider predictions in the context of deterministic algorithms for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Christodoulos Karavasilis

Online algorithms with predictions is a popular and elegant framework for bypassing pessimistic lower bounds in competitive analysis. In this model, online algorithms are supplied with future predictions, and the goal is for the competitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Noam Touitou

We study the complexity of the Channel Assignment problem. By applying the meet-in-the-middle approach we get an algorithm for the $\ell$-bounded Channel Assignment (when the edge weights are bounded by $\ell$) running in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Łukasz Kowalik , Arkadiusz Socała

We are given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, and a sequence of axis-aligned squares that arrive in an online fashion. The online hitting set problem consists of maintaining, by adding new points if necessary, a set $H\subseteq P$ that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minati De , Satyam Singh , Csaba D. Tóth

As the network slicing is one of the critical enablers in communication networks, one anomalous physical node (PN) or physical link (PL) in substrate networks that carries multiple virtual network elements can cause significant performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Weili Wang , Chengchao Liang , Qianbin Chen , Lun Tang , Halim Yanikomeroglu

This paper defines the notion of class discrepancy for families of functions. It shows that low discrepancy classes admit small offline and streaming coresets. We provide general techniques for bounding the class discrepancy of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Zohar Karnin , Edo Liberty

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

The problem of network-constrained averaging is to compute the average of a set of values distributed throughout a graph G using an algorithm that can pass messages only along graph edges. We study this problem in the noisy setting, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Nima Noorshams , Martin Wainwright

In this paper, we investigate the framework of Online Convex Optimization (OCO) for online learning. OCO offers a very powerful online learning framework for many applications. In this context, we study a specific framework of OCO called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Deepan Muthirayan , Jianjun Yuan , Pramod P. Khargonekar

We investigate $k$-means clustering in the online no-substitution setting when the input arrives in \emph{arbitrary} order. In this setting, points arrive one after another, and the algorithm is required to instantly decide whether to take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Robi Bhattacharjee , Michal Moshkovitz

Existing high-dimensional online learning methods often face the challenge that their error bounds, or per-batch sample sizes, diverge as the number of data batches increases. To address this issue, we propose an asynchronous decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Shixiang Liu , Zhifan Li , Hanming Yang , Jianxin Yin

In numerous online selection problems, decision-makers (DMs) must allocate on the fly limited resources to customers with uncertain values. The DM faces the tension between allocating resources to currently observed values and saving them…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yihua Xu , Süleyman Kerimov , Sebastian Perez-Salazar

In the online checkpointing problem, the task is to continuously maintain a set of k checkpoints that allow to rewind an ongoing computation faster than by a full restart. The only operation allowed is to replace an old checkpoint by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Karl Bringmann , Benjamin Doerr , Adrian Neumann , Jakub Sliacan

This paper is devoted to the online dominating set problem and its variants. We believe the paper represents the first systematic study of the effect of two limitations of online algorithms: making irrevocable decisions while not knowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Joan Boyar , Stephan J. Eidenbenz , Lene M. Favrholdt , Michal Kotrbčík , Kim S. Larsen

Recent work of Klivans, Stavropoulos, and Vasilyan initiated the study of testable learning with distribution shift (TDS learning), where a learner is given labeled samples from training distribution $\mathcal{D}$, unlabeled samples from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We propose two strategies for Presenter in the on-line interval graph coloring games. Specifically, we consider a setting in which each interval is associated with a $d$-dimensional vector of weights and the coloring needs to satisfy the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Grzegorz Gutowski , Patryk Mikos

We present algorithms that create coresets in an online setting for clustering problems according to a wide subset of Bregman divergences. Notably, our coresets have a small additive error, similar in magnitude to the lightweight coresets…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Rachit Chhaya , Jayesh Choudhari , Anirban Dasgupta , Supratim Shit

We study probabilistic protocols for concurrent threshold-based load balancing in networks. There are n resources or machines represented by nodes in an undirected graph and m >> n users that try to find an acceptable resource by moving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Martin Hoefer , Thomas Sauerwald