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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) employ reasoning to address complex tasks. Such explicit reasoning requires extended context lengths, resulting in substantially higher resource consumption. Prior work has shown that adversarially crafted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ziwei Wang , Yuanhe Zhang , Jing Chen , Zhenhong Zhou , Ruichao Liang , Ruiying Du , Ju Jia , Cong Wu , Yang Liu

We address the challenge of learning safe and robust decision policies in presence of uncertainty in context of the real scientific problem of adaptive resource oversubscription to enhance resource efficiency while ensuring safety against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Lu Wang , Mayukh Das , Fangkai Yang , Chao Duo , Bo Qiao , Hang Dong , Si Qin , Chetan Bansal , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

In this paper we consider multiple constrained resource allocation problems, where the constraints can be specified by formulating activity dependency restrictions or by using game-theoretic models. All the problems are focused on generic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Costel Visan

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have heterogeneous inference energy costs based on which model is used and how much it reasons. To reduce energy, it is important to choose the right LRM and operate it in the right way. As a result, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Austin R. Ellis-Mohr , Max Hartman , Lav R. Varshney

Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lauritz Thamsen , Yehia Elkhatib , Paul Harvey , Syed Waqar Nabi , Jeremy Singer , Wim Vanderbauwhede

In this paper we present efficient algorithmic solutions for several constrained resource allocation, management and discovery problems. We consider new types of resource allocation models and constraints, and we present new geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Daniel Ardelean

Many blockchain systems today, including Bitcoin, rely on Proof of Work (PoW). Proof of work is crucial to the liveness and security of cryptocurrencies. The assumption when using PoW is that a lot of trial and error is required on average…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Maya Dotan , Saar Tochner

The performance, reliability, cost, size and energy usage of computing systems can be improved by one or more orders of magnitude by the systematic use of modern control and optimization methods. Computing systems rely on the use of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Eric C. Kerrigan

Robustly estimating energy consumption in High-Performance Computing (HPC) is essential for assessing the energy footprint of modern workloads, particularly in fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, development, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Luis G. León-Vega , Niccolò Tosato , Stefano Cozzini

Speculative decoding has emerged as an effective method to reduce latency and inference cost of LLM inferences. However, there has been inadequate attention towards the energy requirements of these models. To address this gap, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rohit Dutta , Paramita Koley , Soham Poddar , Janardan Misra , Sanjay Podder , Naveen Balani , Saptarshi Ghosh , Niloy Ganguly

We consider the problem of expected cost analysis over nondeterministic probabilistic programs, which aims at automated methods for analyzing the resource-usage of such programs. Previous approaches for this problem could only handle…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Peixin Wang , Hongfei Fu , Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Xudong Qin , Wenjun Shi

The reliability of machine learning (ML) software systems is heavily influenced by changes in data over time. For that reason, ML systems require regular maintenance, typically based on model retraining. However, retraining requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Lorena Poenaru-Olaru , June Sallou , Luis Cruz , Jan Rellermeyer , Arie van Deursen

We study a simple scheduling game for the speed scaling model. Players want their job to complete early, which however generates a big energy consumption. We address the game from the mechanism design side, and by charging the energy usage…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Oscar C. Vásquez

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

Planning under resource constraints is central to real-world decision making, yet most large language model (LLM) planners assume uniform action costs. We systematically analyze whether tree-search LLM planners are cost-aware and whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zihao Zhang , Hui Wei , Kenan Jiang , Shijia Pan , Shu Kai , Fei Liu

In the field of algorithms and data structures analysis and design, most of the researchers focus only on the space/time trade-off, and little attention has been paid to energy consumption. Moreover, most of the efforts in the field of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-22 José Fuentes-Sepúlveda , Susana Ladra

We study {\em bottleneck congestion games} where the social cost is determined by the worst congestion of any resource. These games directly relate to network routing problems and also job-shop scheduling problems. In typical bottleneck…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-26 Rajgopal Kannan , Costas Busch , Athanasios Vasilakos

We investigate modifications to Bayesian Optimization for a resource-constrained setting of sequential experimental design where changes to certain design variables of the search space incur a switching cost. This models the scenario where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Stefan Pricopie , Richard Allmendinger , Manuel Lopez-Ibanez , Clyde Fare , Matt Benatan , Joshua Knowles

Resource discovery is one of the most important services that significantly affects the efficiency of grid computing systems. The inherent dynamic and large-scale characteristics of grid environments make their resource discovery a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Mahdi MollaMotalebi , Raheleh Maghami , Abdul Samad Ismail , Alireza Poshtkohi

Conversational recommendation systems have recently gain a lot of attention, as users can continuously interact with the system over multiple conversational turns. However, conversational recommendation systems are based on complex neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Stefanos Antaris , Dimitrios Rafailidis , Mohammad Aliannejadi