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Optimal contribution selection (OCS) is a selective breeding method that manages the conversion of genetic variation into genetic gain to facilitate short-term competitiveness and long-term sustainability in breeding programmes. Traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Josh Fogg , Jaime Ortiz , Ivan Pocrnić , J. A. Julian Hall , Gregor Gorjanc

For two matroids $\mathcal{M}_1$ and $\mathcal{M}_2$ defined on the same ground set $E$, the online matroid intersection problem is to design an algorithm that constructs a large common independent set in an online fashion. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Guru Guruganesh , Sahil Singla

We consider Online Convex Optimization (OCO) in the setting where the costs are $m$-strongly convex and the online learner pays a switching cost for changing decisions between rounds. We show that the recently proposed Online Balanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Gautam Goel , Adam Wierman

e consider the experimental design problem in an online environment, an important practical task for reducing the variance of estimates in randomized experiments which allows for greater precision, and in turn, improved decision making. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-07 David Arbour , Drew Dimmery , Tung Mai , Anup Rao

We propose a model for online graph problems where algorithms are given access to an oracle that predicts (e.g., based on modeling assumptions or on past data) the degrees of nodes in the graph. Within this model, we study the classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk

We study the online unweighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival order model, with $n$ offline and $n$ online vertices, in the learning-augmented setting: The algorithm is provided with untrusted predictions of the types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kunanon Burathep , Thomas Erlebach , William K. Moses

We study the online stochastic matching problem. Consider a bipartite graph with offline vertices on one side, and with i.i.d.online vertices on the other side. The offline vertices and the distribution of online vertices are known to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhiyi Huang , Xinkai Shu

In many real life situations, including job and loan applications, gatekeepers must make justified and fair real-time decisions about a person's fitness for a particular opportunity. In this paper, we aim to accomplish approximate group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yi Sun , Ivan Ramirez , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

We introduce a weighted version of the ranking algorithm by Karp et al. (STOC 1990), and prove a competitive ratio of 0.6534 for the vertex-weighted online bipartite matching problem when online vertices arrive in random order. Our result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zhiyi Huang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

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 advice complexity of an online problem is a measure of how much knowledge of the future an online algorithm needs in order to achieve a certain competitive ratio. Using advice complexity, we define the first online complexity class,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Christian Kudahl , Jesper W. Mikkelsen

We initiate the study of two-sided online resource allocation with costly cancellations. Our focus is on edge-weighted online bipartite matching (and several of its extensions), where nodes arrive online and request offline resources. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Farbod Ekbatani , Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh

We study the online multi-class selection problem with group fairness guarantees, where limited resources must be allocated to sequentially arriving agents. Our work addresses two key limitations in the existing literature. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan , Lyndon Hallett , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

In the problem of online unweighted interval selection, the objective is to maximize the number of non-conflicting intervals accepted by the algorithm. In the conventional online model of irrevocable decisions, there is an Omega(n) lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis

Bipartite ranking is a fundamental machine learning and data mining problem. It commonly concerns the maximization of the AUC metric. Recently, a number of studies have proposed online bipartite ranking algorithms to learn from massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Majdi Khalid , Indrakshi Ray , Hamidreza Chitsaz

Consider an edge computing setting in which a user submits queries for the solution of a linear system to an edge processor, which is subject to time-varying computing availability. The edge processor applies a probabilistic linear solver…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-30 Qiushuo Hou , Sangwoo Park , Matteo Zecchin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Osvaldo Simeone

This paper studies the fixed budget formulation of the Ranking and Selection (R&S) problem with independent normal samples, where the goal is to investigate different algorithms' convergence rate in terms of their resulting probability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Di Wu , Enlu Zhou

Online Bipartite Matching with random user arrival is a fundamental problem in the online advertisement ecosystem. Over the last 30 years, many algorithms and impossibility results have been developed for this problem. In particular, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Flavio Chierichetti , Mirko Giacchini , Alessandro Panconesi , Andrea Vattani

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

We study Online Convex Optimization (OCO) with adversarial constraints, where an online algorithm must make sequential decisions to minimize both convex loss functions and cumulative constraint violations. We focus on a setting where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Jordan Lekeufack , Michael I. Jordan