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We consider variants of the restricted assignment problem where a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines, for each job a size and a set of eligible machines is given, and the jobs may only be assigned to eligible machines with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Anna Rodriguez Rasmussen

The execution time of programs is a key element in many areas of computer science, mainly those where achieving good performance (e.g., scheduling in cloud computing) or a predictable one (e.g., meeting deadlines in embedded systems) is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha

We study the scheduling problem of makespan minimization while taking machine conflicts into account. Machine conflicts arise in various settings, e.g., shared resources for pre- and post-processing of tasks or spatial restrictions. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Moritz Buchem , Linda Kleist , Daniel Schmidt genannt Waldschmidt

We consider the classical scheduling problem on a single machine, on which we need to schedule sequentially $n$ given jobs. Every job $j$ has a processing time $p_j$ and a priority weight $w_j$, and for a given schedule a completion time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Nikhil Bansal , Christoph Dürr , Nguyen Kim Thang , Óscar C. Vásquez

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs to minimize the makespan on $m$ unrelated machines, where job $j$ requires time $p_{ij}$ if processed on machine $i$. A classic algorithm of Lenstra et al. yields the best known approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Dor Arad , Yael Mordechai , Hadas Shachnai

We consider a natural generalization of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan. In our extension the set of jobs is partitioned into several classes and a machine requires a setup whenever it switches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Alexander Mäcker

The algorithms-with-predictions framework has been used extensively to develop online algorithms with improved beyond-worst-case competitive ratios. Recently, there is growing interest in leveraging predictions for designing data structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Samuel McCauley , Benjamin Moseley , Aidin Niaparast , Helia Niaparast , Shikha Singh

In this paper, we begin the exploration of vertex-ordering problems through the lens of exponential-time approximation algorithms. In particular, we ask the following question: Can we simultaneously beat the running times of the fastest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh

We study a sequential resource allocation problem involving a fixed number of recurring jobs. At each time-step the manager should distribute available resources among the jobs in order to maximise the expected number of completed jobs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Tor Lattimore , Koby Crammer , Csaba Szepesvári

We study the problem of optimizing Large Language Model (LLM) inference scheduling to minimize total latency. LLM inference is an online and multi-task service process and also heavily energy consuming by which a pre-trained LLM processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zixi Chen , Yinyu Ye , Zijie Zhou

In nearly every discipline, scientific computations are limited by the cost and speed of computation. For example, the best-known exact algorithms for the canonical Traveling Salesman Problem would take centuries to run on an instance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jeffery Li , Jayson Lynch , Liva Olina , Cecilia Chen , Andrew Lucas , Neil Thompson

Scheduling jobs with given processing times on identical parallel machines so as to minimize their total completion time is one of the most basic scheduling problems. We study interesting generalizations of this classical problem involving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Thomas Bosman , Martijn van Ee , Ekin Ergen , Csanad Imreh , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Martin Skutella , Leen Stougie

We study scheduling problems on a machine with varying speed. Assuming a known speed function we ask for a cost-efficient scheduling solution. Our main result is a PTAS for minimizing the total weighted completion time in this setting. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nicole Megow , José Verschae

Many machine learning approaches are characterized by information constraints on how they interact with the training data. These include memory and sequential access constraints (e.g. fast first-order methods to solve stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Ohad Shamir

We propose a unifying framework based on configuration linear programs and randomized rounding, for different energy optimization problems in the dynamic speed-scaling setting. We apply our framework to various scheduling and routing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Evripidis Bampis , Alexander Kononov , Dimitrios Letsios , Giorgio Lucarelli , Maxim Sviridenko

We consider scheduling on identical and unrelated parallel machines with job assignment restrictions. These problems are NP-hard and they do not admit polynomial time approximation algorithms with approximation ratios smaller than $1.5$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Roberto Solis-Oba

In the scheduling with non-uniform communication delay problem, the input is a set of jobs with precedence constraints. Associated with every precedence constraint between a pair of jobs is a communication delay, the time duration the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sami Davies , Janardhan Kulkarni , Thomas Rothvoss , Sai Sandeep , Jakub Tarnawski , Yihao Zhang

We consider a natural dynamic staffing problem in which a decision-maker sequentially hires workers over a finite horizon to meet an unknown demand revealed at the end. Predictions about demand arrive over time and become increasingly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yiding Feng , Vahideh Manshadi , Rad Niazadeh , Saba Neyshabouri

This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty, or SUU, in which the execution of each job may fail probabilistically. This problem is motivated by the increasing use of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-02-19 Christopher Crutchfield , Zoran Dzunic , Jeremy T. Fineman , David R. Karger , Jacob Scott

The past century has seen a steady increase in the need of estimating and predicting complex systems and making (possibly critical) decisions with limited information. Although computers have made possible the numerical evaluation of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Houman Owhadi , Clint Scovel