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The short-term forecasting of real-time locational marginal price (LMP) and network congestion is considered from a system operator perspective. A new probabilistic forecasting technique is proposed based on a multiparametric programming…

Applications · Statistics 2016-06-28 Yuting Ji , Robert J. Thomas , Lang Tong

We study the online Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) on the line augmented with machine-learned predictions. In the classical problem, there is a stream of requests released over time along the real line. The goal is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Themis Gouleakis , Konstantinos Lakis , Golnoosh Shahkarami

This paper considers the basic problem of scheduling jobs online with preemption to maximize the number of jobs completed by their deadline on $m$ identical machines. The main result is an $O(1)$ competitive deterministic algorithm for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein , Rudy Zhou

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a fundamental non-convex optimization problem with numerous applications in Machine Learning (music analysis, document clustering, speech-source separation etc). Despite having received extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Ioannis Panageas , Stratis Skoulakis , Antonios Varvitsiotis , Xiao Wang

We consider assortment and inventory planning problems with dynamic stockout-based substitution effects, and without replenishment, in two different settings: (1) Customers can see all available products when they arrive, a typical scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Shuo Sun , Rajan Udwani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

In this study, we investigated several online and semi-online scheduling problems on two hierarchical machines with a common due date to maximize the total early work. For the pure online case, we designed an optimal online algorithm with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Man Xiao , Xiaoqiao Liu , Weidong Li , Xin Chen , Malgorzata Sterna , Jacek Blazewicz

This paper proposes an improved version of the current online learning algorithm for a general fuzzy min-max neural network (GFMM) to tackle existing issues concerning expansion and contraction steps as well as the way of dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Thanh Tung Khuat , Fang Chen , Bogdan Gabrys

In the setting of online algorithms, the input is initially not present but rather arrive one-by-one over time and after each input, the algorithm has to make a decision. Depending on the formulation of the problem, the algorithm might be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Mustafa Safa Ozdayi

A robust algorithm for non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is presented in this paper with the purpose of dealing with large-scale data, where the separability assumption is satisfied. In particular, we modify the Linear Programming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-10 Jason Gejie Liu , Shuchin Aeron

We consider Online Facility Location in the framework of learning-augmented online algorithms. In Online Facility Location (OFL), demands arrive one-by-one in a metric space and must be (irrevocably) assigned to an open facility upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Themis Gouleakis , Nikolas Patris , Thanos Tolias

In the online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, $m$ requests in a metric space are submitted at different times by an adversary. The goal is to match all requests while (i) minimizing the sum of the distances between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Marc Dufay , Roger Wattenhofer

Online matching has received significant attention over the last 15 years due to its close connection to Internet advertising. As the seminal work of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani has an optimal (1 - 1/e) competitive ratio in the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Brian Brubach , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

Online linear programming (OLP) has found broad applications in revenue management and resource allocation. State-of-the-art OLP algorithms achieve low regret by repeatedly solving linear programming (LP) subproblems that incorporate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Jingruo Sun , Wenzhi Gao , Ellen Vitercik , Yinyu Ye

Devising intelligent robots or agents that interact with humans is a major challenge for artificial intelligence. In such contexts, agents must constantly adapt their decisions according to human activities and modify their goals. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Damien Pellier , Mickaël Vanneufville , Humbert Fiorino , Marc Métivier , Bruno Bouzy

Mobile parcel lockers (MPLs) have been recently introduced by urban logistics operators as a means to reduce traffic congestion and operational cost. Their capability to relocate their position during the day has the potential to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yubin Liu , Qiming Ye , Yuxiang Feng , Jose Escribano-Macias , Panagiotis Angeloudis

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into information retrieval systems introduces new attack surfaces, particularly for adversarial ranking manipulations. We present $\textbf{StealthRank}$, a novel adversarial attack method that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yiming Tang , Yi Fan , Chenxiao Yu , Tiankai Yang , Yue Zhao , Xiyang Hu

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) has exceeded human performance in many synthetic settings such as video games and Go. However, real-world deployment of end-to-end RL models is less common, as RL models can be very sensitive to slight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jing Dong , Jingwei Li , Baoxiang Wang , Jingzhao Zhang

Offline preference optimization is a key method for enhancing and controlling the quality of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. Typically, preference optimization is approached as an offline supervised learning task using manually-crafted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chris Lu , Samuel Holt , Claudio Fanconi , Alex J. Chan , Jakob Foerster , Mihaela van der Schaar , Robert Tjarko Lange

Maps of dynamics are effective representations of motion patterns learned from prior observations, with recent research demonstrating their ability to enhance various downstream tasks such as human-aware robot navigation, long-term human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yufei Zhu , Andrey Rudenko , Luigi Palmieri , Lukas Heuer , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson