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We study online capacitated resource allocation, a natural generalization of online stochastic max-weight bipartite matching. This problem is motivated by ride-sharing and Internet advertising applications, where online arrivals may have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Alexander Braun , Thomas Kesselheim , Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi

Online resource allocation is a rich and varied field. One of the most well-known problems in this area is online bipartite matching, introduced in 1990 by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani [KVV90]. Since then, many variants have been studied,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Daniel Hathcock , Billy Jin , Kalen Patton , Sherry Sarkar , Michael Zlatin

This paper combines two key ingredients for online algorithms - competitive analysis (e.g. the competitive ratio) and advice complexity (e.g. the number of advice bits needed to improve online decisions) - in the context of a simple online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Martin Aleksandrov , Toby Walsh

We study an online classification problem with partial feedback in which individuals arrive one at a time from a fixed but unknown distribution, and must be classified as positive or negative. Our algorithm only observes the true label of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yahav Bechavod , Katrina Ligett , Aaron Roth , Bo Waggoner , Zhiwei Steven Wu

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

Vizing's celebrated theorem asserts that any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ admits an edge coloring using at most $\Delta+1$ colors. In contrast, Bar-Noy, Naor and Motwani showed over a quarter century that the trivial greedy algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Binghui Peng , David Wajc

When designing a preemptive online algorithm for the maximum matching problem, we wish to maintain a valid matching M while edges of the underlying graph are presented one after the other. When presented with an edge e, the algorithm should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Danny Segev , Oren Weimann

We consider the (offline) vertex-weighted Online Matching problem under Known Identical and Independent Distributions (KIID) with integral arrival rates. We propose a meta-algorithm, denoted as $\mathsf{RTB}$, featuring Real-Time Boosting,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Pan Xu

In vertex recoloring, we are given $n$ vertices with their initial coloring, and edges arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm must maintain a valid coloring by recoloring vertices, at a cost. The problem abstracts a scenario of job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Adi Rosen , Seeun William Umboh

We investigate online maximum cardinality matching, a central problem in ad allocation. In this problem, users are revealed sequentially, and each new user can be paired with any previously unmatched campaign that it is compatible with.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Flore Sentenac , Nathan Noiry , Matthieu Lerasle , Laurent Ménard , Vianney Perchet

We consider the online stochastic matching problem for bipartite graphs where edges adjacent to an online node must be probed to determine if they exist, based on known edge probabilities. Our algorithms respect commitment, in that if a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury , Akash Rakheja

Partial graph matching extends traditional graph matching by allowing some nodes to remain unmatched, enabling applications in more complex scenarios. However, this flexibility introduces additional complexity, as both the subset of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Gathika Ratnayaka , James Nichols , Qing Wang

In this paper, we study two variants of the online metric matching problem. The first problem is the online metric matching problem where all the servers are placed at one of two positions in the metric space. We show that a simple greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Toshiya Itoh , Shuichi Miyazaki , Makoto Satake

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

The online randomized primal-dual method has widespread applications in online algorithm design and analysis. A key challenge is identifying an appropriate function space, $F$, in which we search for an optimal updating function $f \in F$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Pan Xu

Online resource allocation is a rich and varied field. One of the most well-known problems in this area is online bipartite matching, introduced in 1990 by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani [KVV90]. Since then, many variants have been studied,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Daniel Hathcock , Billy Jin , Kalen Patton , Sherry Sarkar , Michael Zlatin

The online bipartite matching problem has offline buyers desiring to be matched to online items. The analysis of online bipartite matching of Eden et al. (2021) is a smoothness proof (Syrgkanis and Tardos, 2013). Moreover, it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jason Hartline

This paper presents a new research direction for the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) - a problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC'16). In the original version of this problem, we are given an $n$-point metric space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mathieu Mari , Michał Pawłowski , Runtian Ren , Piotr Sankowski

In this note, we revisit the rounding algorithm of Wajc. Wajc gave a fully-adaptive randomized algorithm that rounds a dynamic fractional matching in an unweighted bipartite graph to an integral matching of nearly the same value in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Aditi Dudeja

This paper analyzes the problem of assigning weights to edges incrementally in a dynamic complete bipartite graph consisting of producer and consumer nodes. The objective is to minimize the overall cost while satisfying certain constraints.…

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