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We consider the online bin packing problem under the advice complexity model where the 'online constraint' is relaxed and an algorithm receives partial information about the future requests. We provide tight upper and lower bounds for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Joan Boyar , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen , Alejandro López-Ortiz

Online bipartite matching has been extensively studied. In the unweighted setting, Karp et al. gave an optimal $(1 - 1/e)$-competitive randomized algorithm. In the weighted setting, optimal algorithms have been achieved only under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Nguyen Kim Thang

Imagine you are a computer scientist who enjoys attending conferences or workshops within the year. Sadly, your travel budget is limited, so you must select a subset of events you can travel to. When you are aware of all possible events and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jakub Balabán , Matthias Gehnen , Henri Lotze , Finn Seesemann , Moritz Stocker

Online resource allocation problems are central challenges in economics and computer science, modeling situations in which $n$ items arriving one at a time must each be immediately allocated among $m$ agents. In such problems, our objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kalen Patton

In the model of online caching with machine learned advice, introduced by Lykouris and Vassilvitskii, the goal is to solve the caching problem with an online algorithm that has access to next-arrival predictions: when each input element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Dhruv Rohatgi

We present prior robust algorithms for a large class of resource allocation problems where requests arrive one-by-one (online), drawn independently from an unknown distribution at every step. We design a single algorithm that, for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Nikhil R. Devanur , Kamal Jain , Balasubramanian Sivan , Christopher A. Wilkens

We consider the problem of learning and using predictions for warm start algorithms with predictions. In this setting, an algorithm is given an instance of a problem, and a prediction of the solution. The runtime of the algorithm is bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vaidehi Srinivas , Avrim Blum

Online contention resolution schemes (OCRSs) are effective rounding techniques for online stochastic combinatorial optimization problems. These schemes randomly and sequentially round a fractional solution to a relaxed problem that can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Toru Yoshinaga , Yasushi Kawase

We present new exact and approximation algorithms for 0-1-Knapsack and Unbounded Knapsack: * Exact Algorithm for 0-1-Knapsack: 0-1-Knapsack has known algorithms running in time $\widetilde{O}(n + \min\{n OPT, n W, OPT^2, W^2\})$, where $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Karl Bringmann , Alejandro Cassis

Motivated by the applications of rental services in e-commerce, we consider revenue maximization in online assortment of reusable resources for a stream of arriving consumers with different types. We design competitive online algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi

We study the relationship between the competitive ratio and the tail distribution of randomized online minimization problems. To this end, we define a broad class of online problems that includes some of the well-studied problems like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Dennis Komm , Rastislav Královič , Richard Královič , Tobias Mömke

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

Addressing a complex real-world optimization problem is a challenging task. The chance-constrained knapsack problem with correlated uniform weights plays an important role in the case where dependent stochastic components are considered. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yue Xie , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Andrew M. Sutton

The bin covering problem asks for covering a maximum number of bins with an online sequence of $n$ items of different sizes in the range $(0,1]$; a bin is said to be covered if it receives items of total size at least 1. We study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen

We consider the classical online bipartite matching problem in the probe-commit model. In this problem, when an online vertex arrives, its edges must be probed to determine if they exist, based on known edge probabilities. A probing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury

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

We consider online resource allocation problems where given a set of requests our goal is to select a subset that maximizes a value minus cost type of objective function. Requests are presented online in random order, and each request…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-07 Siddharth Barman , Seeun Umboh , Shuchi Chawla , David Malec

This paper leverages machine-learned predictions to design competitive algorithms for online conversion problems with the goal of improving the competitive ratio when predictions are accurate (i.e., consistency), while also guaranteeing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Bo Sun , Russell Lee , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Danny H. K. Tsang

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…

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