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The value maximization version of the secretary problem is the problem of hiring a candidate with the largest value from a randomly ordered sequence of candidates. In this work, we consider a setting where predictions of candidate values…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kaito Fujii , Yuichi Yoshida

In the online multiple knapsack problem, an algorithm faces a stream of items, and each item has to be either rejected or stored irrevocably in one of $n$ bins (knapsacks) of equal size. The gain of an~algorithm is equal to the sum of sizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Marcin Bienkowski , Maciej Pacut , Krzysztof Piecuch

The secretary problem is a classic model for online decision making. Recently, combinatorial extensions such as matroid or matching secretary problems have become an important tool to study algorithmic problems in dynamic markets. Here the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Martin Hoefer , Bojana Kodric

The Knapsack problem is one of the most fundamental NP-complete problems at the intersection of computer science, optimization, and operations research. A recent line of research worked towards understanding the complexity of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Karl Bringmann

We study online multidimensional variants of the generalized assignment problem which are used to model prominent real-world applications, such as the assignment of virtual machines with multiple resource requirements to physical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 David Naori , Danny Raz

Knapsack is one of the most fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. In the $(1 - \epsilon)$-approximation setting, although there is a fine-grained lower bound of $(n + 1 / \epsilon) ^ {2 - o(1)}$ based on the $(\min,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiao Mao

The secretary problem is probably the purest model of decision making under uncertainty. In this paper we ask which advice can we give the algorithm to improve its success probability? We propose a general model that unifies a broad range…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Paul Dütting , Silvio Lattanzi , Renato Paes Leme , Sergei Vassilvitskii

The online knapsack problem is a classic online resource allocation problem in networking and operations research. Its basic version studies how to pack online arriving items of different sizes and values into a capacity-limited knapsack.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Bo Sun , Lin Yang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Danny H. K. Tsang

We consider generalizations of the classical secretary problem, also known as the problem of optimal choice, to posets where the only information we have is the size of the poset and the number of maximal elements. We show that, given this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Bryn Garrod , Robert Morris

Adversarial attacks expose important vulnerabilities of deep learning models, yet little attention has been paid to settings where data arrives as a stream. In this paper, we formalize the online adversarial attack problem, emphasizing two…

In this paper, we introduce online knapsack problems with a resource buffer. In the problems, we are given a knapsack with capacity $1$, a buffer with capacity $R\ge 1$, and items that arrive one by one. Each arriving item has to be taken…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Xin Han , Yasushi Kawase , Kazuhisa Makino , Haruki Yokomaku

We study a wholesale supply chain ordering problem. In this problem, the supplier has an initial stock, and faces an unpredictable stream of incoming orders, making real-time decisions on whether to accept or reject each order. What makes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Jinglong Zhao

We study memory-bounded algorithms for the $k$-secretary problem. The algorithm of Kleinberg (SODA 2005) achieves an optimal competitive ratio of $1 - O(1/\sqrt{k})$, yet a straightforward implementation requires $\Omega(k)$ memory. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Mingda Qiao , Wei Zhang

In the matroid secretary problem, elements $N := [n]$ of a matroid $\mathcal{M} \subseteq 2^N$ arrive in random order. When an element arrives, its weight is revealed and a choice must be made to accept or reject the element, subject to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rishi Gujjar , Kevin Hua , Robert Kleinberg , Frederick V. Qiu

In this paper, we investigate two variants of the secretary problem. In these variants, we are presented with a sequence of numbers $X_i$ that come from distributions $\mathcal{D}_i$, and that arrive in either random or adversarial order.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Pranav Nuti , Jan Vondrák

The online knapsack problem is a classic problem in the field of online algorithms. Its canonical version asks how to pack items of different values and weights arriving online into a capacity-limited knapsack so as to maximize the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Adam Lechowicz , Rik Sengupta , Bo Sun , Shahin Kamali , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

In the classical secretary problem, $n$ ranked items arrive one by one, and each item's rank relative to its predecessors is noted. The observer must select or reject each item as it arrives, with the object of selecting the item of highest…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Ross G. Pinsky , Tomer Zilca

We study online secretary problems with returns in combinatorial packing domains with $n$ candidates that arrive sequentially over time in random order. The goal is to accept a feasible packing of candidates of maximum total value. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wilhelmi

We study various generalizations of the secretary problem with submodular objective functions. Generally, a set of requests is revealed step-by-step to an algorithm in random order. For each request, one option has to be selected so as to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Thomas Kesselheim , Andreas Tönnis

We consider Bandits with Knapsacks (henceforth, BwK), a general model for multi-armed bandits under supply/budget constraints. In particular, a bandit algorithm needs to solve a well-known knapsack problem: find an optimal packing of items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Nicole Immorlica , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Robert Schapire , Aleksandrs Slivkins