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In the online bipartite matching with reassignments problem, an algorithm is initially given only one side of the vertex set of a bipartite graph; the vertices on the other side are revealed to the algorithm one by one, along with its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yongho Shin , Kangsan Kim , Seungmin Lee , Hyung-Chan An

The bipartite matching problem in the online and streaming settings has received a lot of attention recently. The classical vertex arrival setting, for which the celebrated Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani (KVV) algorithm achieves a $1-1/e$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Michael Kapralov

The Adwords and Online Bipartite Matching problems have enjoyed a renewed attention over the past decade due to their connection to Internet advertising. Our community has contributed, among other things, new models (notably stochastic) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Yajun Wang , Sam Chiu-wai Wong

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 2021-03-02 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury , Akash Rakheja

We consider a generalization of the vertex weighted online bipartite matching problem where the offline vertices, called resources, are reusable. In particular, when a resource is matched it is unavailable for a deterministic time duration…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Rajan Udwani

Three decades ago, Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990) defined the online matching problem and gave an optimal $1-\frac{1}{e} \approx 0.632$-competitive algorithm. Fifteen years later, Mehta, Saberi, Vazirani, and Vazirani (FOCS 2005)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Zhiyi Huang , Qiankun Zhang , Yuhao Zhang

In this paper, we consider the online vertex-weighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival model. We consider the generalization of the RANKING algorithm for this problem introduced by Huang, Tang, Wu, and Zhang (TALG 2019), who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Billy Jin , David P. Williamson

Online bipartite matching is a fundamental problem in online optimization, extensively studied both in its integral and fractional forms due to its theoretical significance and practical applications, such as online advertising and resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Davin Choo , Billy Jin , Yongho Shin

In bipartite matching problems, vertices on one side of a bipartite graph are paired with those on the other. In its online variant, one side of the graph is available offline, while the vertices on the other side arrive online. When a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-14 John P. Dickerson , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

In this paper, we study max-weight stochastic matchings on online bipartite graphs under both vertex and edge arrivals. We focus on designing polynomial time approximation algorithms with respect to the online benchmark, which was first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Mark Braverman , Mahsa Derakhshan , Antonio Molina Lovett

When designing a preemptive online algorithm for the maximum matching problem, we wish to maintain a valid matching M while edges of the underlying graph are presented one after the other. When presented with an edge e, the algorithm should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Danny Segev , Oren Weimann

Two-way online correlated selection (two-way OCS) is an online algorithm that, at each timestep, takes a pair of elements from the ground set and irrevocably chooses one of the two elements, while ensuring negative correlation in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yongho Shin , Hyung-Chan An

We study the classical, randomized Ranking algorithm which is known to be $(1 - \frac{1}{e})$-competitive in expectation for the Online Bipartite Matching Problem. We give a tail inequality bound, namely that Ranking is $(1 - \frac{1}{e} -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Milena Mihail , Thorben Tröbst

We introduce and study the weighted version of an online matching problem in the Euclidean plane with non-crossing constraints: points with non-negative weights arrive online, and an algorithm can match an arriving point to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Joan Boyar , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen , Ali Fata Lavasani , Yaqiao Li , Denis Pankratov

The online stochastic matching problem was introduced by [FMMM09], together with the $(1-\frac1e)$-competitive Suggested Matching algorithm. In the most general edge-weighted setting, this ratio has not been improved for more than one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuyi Yan

We study Stochastic Online Correlated Selection (SOCS), a family of online rounding algorithms for Non-IID Stochastic Online Submodular Welfare Maximization and special cases such as Online Stochastic Matching, Stochastic AdWords, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ziyun Chen , Zhiyi Huang , Enze Sun

We study the performance of sequential contention resolution and matching algorithms on random graphs with vanishing edge probabilities. When the edges of the graph are processed in an adversarially-chosen order, we derive a new OCRS that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Will Ma , Calum MacRury , Pranav Nuti

We revisit the fully online matching model (Huang et al., J.\ ACM, 2020), an extension of the classic online matching model due to Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990), which has recently received a lot of attention (Huang et al., SODA…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Alexander Eckl , Anja Kirschbaum , Marilena Leichter , Kevin Schewior

We study the online load balancing problem on unrelated machines, with the objective of minimizing the square of the $\ell_2$ norm of the loads on the machines. The greedy algorithm of Awerbuch et al. (STOC'95) is optimal for deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Sander Borst , Danish Kashaev

The online matching problem was introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani nearly three decades ago. In that seminal work, they studied this problem in bipartite graphs with vertices arriving only on one side, and presented optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Buddhima Gamlath , Michael Kapralov , Andreas Maggiori , Ola Svensson , David Wajc