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We study different online optimization problems in the random-order model. There is a finite set of bins with known capacity and a finite set of items arriving in a random order. Upon arrival of an item, its size and its value for each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Max Klimm , Martin Knaack

The knapsack problem is one of the classical problems in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each specified by its size and profit, the goal is to find a maximum profit packing into a knapsack of bounded capacity. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Arindam Khan , Leon Ladewig

A variant of the online knapsack problem is considered in the settings of trusted and untrusted predictions. In Unit Profit Knapsack, the items have unit profit, and it is easy to find an optimal solution offline: Pack as many of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

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 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 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 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

In the knapsack problem, we are given a knapsack of some capacity and a set of items, each with a size and a value. The goal is to pack a selection of these items fitting the knapsack that maximizes the total value. The online version of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Fabian Frei , Peter Rossmanith

In the online simple knapsack problem items are presented in an iterative fashion and an algorithm has to decide for each item whether to reject or permanently include it into the knapsack without any knowledge about the rest of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Hans-Joachim Boeckenhauer , Elisabet Burjons , Fabian Frei , Juraj Hromkovic , Henri Lotze , Peter Rossmanith

We introduce the Online Unbounded Knapsack Problem with Removal, a variation of the well-known Online Knapsack Problem. Items, each with a weight and value, arrive online and an algorithm must decide on whether or not to pack them into a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matthias Gehnen , Moritz Stocker

The design of online algorithms has tended to focus on algorithms with worst-case guarantees, e.g., bounds on the competitive ratio. However, it is well-known that such algorithms are often overly pessimistic, performing sub-optimally on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Ali Zeynali , Bo Sun , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman

This paper introduces a family of learning-augmented algorithms for online knapsack problems that achieve near Pareto-optimal consistency-robustness trade-offs through a simple combination of trusted learning-augmented and worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli , Helia Karisani , Adam Lechowicz , Bo Sun , Cameron Musco , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

We analyze the competitive ratio and the advice complexity of the online unbounded knapsack problem. An instance is given as a sequence of n items with a size and a value each, and an algorithm has to decide how often to pack each item into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Matthias Gehnen , Juraj Hromkovič , Ralf Klasing , Dennis Komm , Henri Lotze , Daniel Mock , Peter Rossmanith , Moritz Stocker

Online bipartite matching is a classical problem in online algorithms and we know that both the deterministic fractional and randomized integral online matchings achieve the same competitive ratio of $1-\frac{1}{e}$. In this work, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Amey Bhangale , Arghya Chakraborty , Prahladh Harsha

We study two canonical online optimization problems under capacity/budget constraints: the fractional one-way trading problem (OTP) and the integral online knapsack problem (OKP) under an infinitesimal assumption. Under the competitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ying Cao , Bo Sun , Danny H. K. Tsang

In the online general knapsack problem, an algorithm is presented with an item $x=(s,v)$ of size $s$ and value $v$ and must irrevocably choose to pack such an item into the knapsack or reject it before the next item appears. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elisabet Burjons , Matthias Gehnen

The online assignment problem plays an important role in operational research and computer science which is why immense attention has been given to improving its solution quality. Due to the incomplete information about the input, it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Clarence Gabriel R. Kasilag , Pollux M. Rey , Jhoirene B. Clemente

We prove new lower bounds for suitable competitive ratio measures of two relaxed online packing problems: online removable multiple knapsack, and a recently introduced online minimum peak appointment scheduling problem. The high level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-19 János Balogh , György Dósa , Leah Epstein , Łukasz Jeż

We consider the problem of maximizing a fractionally subadditive function under a knapsack constraint that grows over time. An incremental solution to this problem is given by an order in which to include the elements of the ground set, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yann Disser , Max Klimm , Annette Lutz , David Weckbecker

Online knapsack problem is considered, where items arrive in a sequential fashion that have two attributes; value and weight. Each arriving item has to be accepted or rejected on its arrival irrevocably. The objective is to maximize the sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Rahul Vaze
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