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Exploring unknown environments is a fundamental task in many domains, e.g., robot navigation, network security, and internet search. We initiate the study of a learning-augmented variant of the classical, notoriously hard online graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Franziska Eberle , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Jens Schlöter

We study the online metric matching problem. There are $m$ servers and $n$ requests located in a metric space, where all servers are available upfront and requests arrive one at a time. Upon the arrival of a new request, it needs to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mingwei Yang , Sophie H. Yu

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

Bin packing is a classic optimization problem with a wide range of applications, from load balancing to supply chain management. In this work, we study the online variant of the problem, in which a sequence of items of various sizes must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Kimia Shadkami

In this paper, we present a framework used to construct and analyze algorithms for online optimization problems with deadlines or with delay over a metric space. Using this framework, we present algorithms for several different problems. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yossi Azar , Noam Touitou

Machine learning algorithms are designed to make accurate predictions of the future based on existing data, while online algorithms seek to bound some performance measure (typically the competitive ratio) without knowledge of the future.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Kevin Rao

We consider the problem of graph searching with prediction recently introduced by Banerjee et al. (2022). In this problem, an agent, starting at some vertex $r$ has to traverse a (potentially unknown) graph $G$ to find a hidden goal node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Adela Frances DePavia , Erasmo Tani , Ali Vakilian

This paper is devoted to the online dominating set problem and its variants. We believe the paper represents the first systematic study of the effect of two limitations of online algorithms: making irrevocable decisions while not knowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Joan Boyar , Stephan J. Eidenbenz , Lene M. Favrholdt , Michal Kotrbčík , Kim S. Larsen

Many estimation problems in robotics, computer vision, and learning require estimating unknown quantities in the face of outliers. Outliers are typically the result of incorrect data association or feature matching, and it is common to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jingnan Shi , Heng Yang , Luca Carlone

We consider online similarity prediction problems over networked data. We begin by relating this task to the more standard class prediction problem, showing that, given an arbitrary algorithm for class prediction, we can construct an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Claudio Gentile , Mark Herbster , Stephen Pasteris

This paper addresses the problem of online network topology inference for expanding graphs from a stream of spatiotemporal signals. Online algorithms for dynamic graph learning are crucial in delay-sensitive applications or when changes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Samuel Rey , Bishwadeep Das , Elvin Isufi

We introduce learning augmented algorithms to the online graph coloring problem. Although the simple greedy algorithm FirstFit is known to perform poorly in the worst case, we are able to establish a relationship between the structure of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Antonios Antoniadis , Hajo Broersma , Yang Meng

We consider the following online optimization problem. We are given a graph $G$ and each vertex of the graph is assigned to one of $\ell$ servers, where servers have capacity $k$ and we assume that the graph has $\ell \cdot k$ vertices.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid

Online learning with expert advice is widely used in various machine learning tasks. It considers the problem where a learner chooses one from a set of experts to take advice and make a decision. In many learning problems, experts may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Pouya M Ghari , Yanning Shen

We study dynamic algorithms in the model of algorithms with predictions. We assume the algorithm is given imperfect predictions regarding future updates, and we ask how such predictions can be used to improve the running time. This can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Adam Polak

We consider the problem of online linear regression in the stochastic setting. We derive high probability regret bounds for online ridge regression and the forward algorithm. This enables us to compare online regression algorithms more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Reda Ouhamma , Odalric Maillard , Vianney Perchet

Online conformal prediction has demonstrated its capability to construct a prediction set for each incoming data point that covers the true label with a predetermined probability. To cope with potential distribution shift, multi-model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Erfan Hajihashemi , Yanning Shen

Probabilistic metric embedding into trees is a powerful technique for designing online algorithms. The standard approach is to embed the entire underlying metric into a tree metric and then solve the problem on the latter. The overhead in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yair Bartal , Ora N. Fandina , Seeun William Umboh

In this paper we consider several related online computation problems. First, we study answering sequences of statistical queries arriving online, and being answered immediately when they arrive with differential privacy. Known matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aleksandar Nikolov , Haohua Tang , Jonathan Ullman

Traditional online algorithms encapsulate decision making under uncertainty, and give ways to hedge against all possible future events, while guaranteeing a nearly optimal solution as compared to an offline optimum. On the other hand,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Thodoris Lykouris , Sergei Vassilvitskii