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We consider the problem of learning personalized decision policies from observational bandit feedback data across multiple heterogeneous data sources. In our approach, we introduce a novel regret analysis that establishes finite-sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Aldo Gael Carranza , Susan Athey

This paper considers the distributed online convex optimization problem with time-varying constraints over a network of agents. This is a sequential decision making problem with two sequences of arbitrarily varying convex loss and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

Coded caching techniques have received significant attention lately due to their provable gains in reducing the cost of data delivery in wireless networks. These gains, however, have only been demonstrated under the assumption of a free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yousef AlHassoun , Faisal Alotaibi , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal

Classical coded caching setting avails each user to have one dedicated cache. This is generalized to a more general shared cache scheme and the exact expression for the worst case rate was derived in [E. Parrinello, A. Unsal, P. Elia,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Spandan Dey , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Caching is an effective mechanism for reducing bandwidth usage and alleviating server load. However, the use of caching entails a compromise between content freshness and refresh cost. An excessive refresh allows a high degree of content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Yibei Ling , Jie Mi

We consider a coded caching problem with multiple demands under a privacy constraint. In this problem, a server with access to \(N\) files serves \(K\) users over a shared link, and each user requests \(L\) distinct files. The privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

In this paper, we consider a coded caching scenario where users have heterogeneous interests. Taking into consideration the system model originally proposed by Wang and Peleato, for which the end-receiving users are divided into groups…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

We consider load balancing problem in a cache network consisting of storage-enabled servers forming a distributed content delivery scenario. Previously proposed load balancing solutions cannot perfectly balance out requests among servers,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Farzad Parvaresh , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

The fifth generation wireless networks must provide fast and reliable connectivity while coping with the ongoing traffic growth. It is of paramount importance that the required resources, such as energy and bandwidth, do not scale with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Maria Gregori , Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Javier Matamoros , Deniz Gündüz

We consider a cache updating system with a source, a cache with limited storage capacity and a user. There are $n$ files. The source keeps the freshest versions of the files which are updated with known rates. The cache gets fresh files…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

Inspired by the cache replacement problem, we propose and solve a new variant of the well-known multi-armed bandit (MAB), thus providing a solution for improving existing state-of-the-art cache management methods. Each arm (or expert)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Farzana Beente Yusuf , Vitalii Stebliankin , Giuseppe Vietri , Giri Narasimhan

Most learning algorithms with formal regret guarantees assume that all mistakes are recoverable and essentially rely on trying all possible behaviors. This approach is problematic when some mistakes are "catastrophic", i.e., irreparable. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Benjamin Plaut , Hanlin Zhu , Stuart Russell

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours, by storing some content at the user's local cache memory, even without knowledge of user's later demands. Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

We devise an online learning algorithm -- titled Switching via Monotone Adapted Regret Traces (SMART) -- that adapts to the data and achieves regret that is instance optimal, i.e., simultaneously competitive on every input sequence compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Siddhartha Banerjee , Alankrita Bhatt , Christina Lee Yu

We consider a system consisting of a single transmitter/receiver pair and $N$ channels over which they may communicate. Packets randomly arrive to the transmitter's queue and wait to be successfully sent to the receiver. The transmitter may…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Thomas Stahlbuhk , Brooke Shrader , Eytan Modiano

Coded caching is a technique that promises huge reductions in network traffic in content-delivery networks. However, the original formulation and several subsequent contributions in the area, assume that the file requests from the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Joint pushing and caching is recognized as an efficient remedy to the problem of spectrum scarcity incurred by tremendous mobile data traffic. In this paper, by exploiting storage resources at end users and predictability of user demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Yaping Sun , Ying Cui , Hui Liu

Locally caching contents at the network edge constitutes one of the most disruptive approaches in $5$G wireless networks. Reaping the benefits of edge caching hinges on solving a myriad of challenges such as how, what and when to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

Caching at the network edge has emerged as a viable solution for alleviating the severe capacity crunch in modern content centric wireless networks by leveraging network load-balancing in the form of localized content storage and delivery.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Avik Sengupta , Ravi Tandon

This paper considers heterogeneous coded caching where the users have unequal distortion requirements. The server is connected to the users via an error-free multicast link and designs the users' cache sizes subject to a total memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener