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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful tool used for addressing complex challenges in mobile networks. This paper investigates the application of two DRL models, on-policy and off-policy, in the field of resource allocation for…

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Our work introduces the effect of supply/demand imbalances into the literature on online matching with stochastic rewards in bipartite graphs. We provide a parameterized definition that characterizes instances as over- or undersupplied (or…

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We give a very general and simple framework to incorporate predictions on requests for online covering problems in a rigorous and black-box manner. Our framework turns any online algorithm with competitive ratio $\rho(k, \cdot)$ depending…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Laura Sanita , Moritz Venzin

We study Online Linear Programming (OLP) with batching. The planning horizon is cut into $K$ batches, and the decisions on customers arriving within a batch can be delayed to the end of their associated batch. Compared with OLP without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Haoran Xu , Peter W. Glynn , Yinyu Ye

Rising provider turnover results in frequently needing to rematch patients with available providers. However, the rematching process is cumbersome for both patients and health systems, resulting in labor-intensive and ad hoc reassignments.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Naveen Raman , Holly Wiberg

Consider the following online version of the submodular maximization problem under a matroid constraint: We are given a set of elements over which a matroid is defined. The goal is to incrementally choose a subset that remains independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , R. Ravi , Mohit Singh

Learning With Opponent-Learning Awareness (LOLA) (Foerster et al. [2018a]) is a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that typically learns reciprocity-based cooperation in partially competitive environments. However, LOLA often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Stephen Zhao , Chris Lu , Roger Baker Grosse , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

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

With the emergence of services and online applications as taxi dispatching, crowdsourcing, package or food delivery, industrials and researchers are paying attention to the online multi-task assignment optimization field to quickly and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Déborah Conforto Nedelmann , Jérôme Lacan , Caroline Chanel

We study an online contextual decision-making problem with resource constraints. At each time period, the decision-maker first predicts a reward vector and resource consumption matrix based on a given context vector and then solves a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Heyuan Liu , Paul Grigas

The model is motivated by the problem of load distribution in large-scale cloud-based data processing systems. We consider a heterogeneous service system, consisting of multiple large server pools. The pools are different in that their…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Alexander Stolyar

We study a two-stage online reusable resource allocation problem over T days involving advance reservations and walk-ins. Each day begins with a reservation stage (Stage I), where reservation requests arrive sequentially. When service…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ruicheng Ao , Hengyu Fu , David Simchi-levi

We consider a new and general online resource allocation problem, where the goal is to maximize a function of a positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix with a scalar budget constraint. The problem data arrives online, and the algorithm needs to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Reza Eghbali , James Saunderson , Maryam Fazel

We tackle in this paper an online network resource allocation problem with job transfers. The network is composed of many servers connected by communication links. The system operates in discrete time; at each time slot, the administrator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-17 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Amirhossein Asgharnia

This paper designs a helper-assisted resource allocation strategy in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, in order to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) of the energy/delay-sensitive user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Mengmeng Ren , Long Yang , Hai Jiang , Jian Chen , Yuchen Zhou

Resource provisioning plays a pivotal role in determining the right amount of infrastructure resource to run applications and target the global decarbonization goal. A significant portion of production clusters is now dedicated to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Clement Mommessin , Renyu Yang , Natalia V. Shakhlevich , Xiaoyang Sun , Satish Kumar , Junqing Xiao , Jie Xu

A two-sided matching system is considered, where servers are assumed to arrive at a fixed rate, while the arrival rate of customers is modulated via a price-control mechanism. We analyse a loss model, wherein customers who are not served…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Rahul Vaze , Jayakrishnan Nair

We explore an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. Unlike previous work that assumes full feedback from all agents on their allocations, we consider feedback from a select subset of agents at each epoch of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Thanh Nguyen , Will Wei Sun , Mohit Tawarmalani

Massive surges of enrollments in courses have led to a crisis in several computer science departments - not only is the demand for certain courses extremely high from majors, but the demand from non-majors is also very high. Much of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Arpita Biswas , Yiduo Ke , Samir Khuller , Quanquan C. Liu

Online allocation problems with resource constraints are central problems in revenue management and online advertising. In these problems, requests arrive sequentially during a finite horizon and, for each request, a decision maker needs to…

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