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We introduce online learning with vector costs (\OLVCp) where in each time step $t \in \{1,\ldots, T\}$, we need to play an action $i \in \{1,\ldots,n\}$ that incurs an unknown vector cost in $[0,1]^{d}$. The goal of the online algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Thomas Kesselheim , Sahil Singla

Crucial performance metrics of a caching algorithm include its ability to quickly and accurately learn a popularity distribution of requests. However, a majority of work on analytical performance analysis focuses on hit probability after an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Archana Bura , Desik Rengarajan , Dileep Kalathil , Srinivas Shakkottai , Jean-Francois Chamberland-Tremblay

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

This paper is concerned with online caching algorithms for the (n,k)-companion cache, defined by Brehob et. al. In this model the cache is composed of two components: a k-way set-associative cache and a companion fully-associative cache of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manor Mendel , Steven S. Seiden

A search engine maintains local copies of different web pages to provide quick search results. This local cache is kept up-to-date by a web crawler that frequently visits these different pages to track changes in them. Ideally, the local…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Kishor Patil , Gugan Thoppe

The $k$-$\mathtt{means}$++ seeding algorithm (Arthur & Vassilvitskii, 2007) is widely used in practice for the $k$-means clustering problem where the goal is to cluster a dataset $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R} ^d$ into $k$ clusters. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Poojan Shah , Shashwat Agrawal , Ragesh Jaiswal

Caching can be leveraged to significantly improve network performance and mitigate congestion. However, characterizing the optimal tradeoff between routing cost and cache deployment cost remains an open problem. In this paper, for a network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinkun Zhang , Edmund Yeh

We introduce the batched set cover problem, which is a generalization of the online set cover problem. In this problem, the elements of the ground set that need to be covered arrive in batches. Our main technical contribution is a tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Juan C. Martínez Mori , Samitha Samaranayake

Large language models (LLMs) excel at processing long sequences, boosting demand for key-value (KV) caching. While recent efforts to evict KV cache have alleviated the inference burden, they often fail to allocate resources rationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Ziran Qin , Yuchen Cao , Mingbao Lin , Wen Hu , Shixuan Fan , Ke Cheng , Weiyao Lin , Jianguo Li

Resource allocation in distributed and networked systems such as the Cloud is becoming increasingly flexible, allowing these systems to dynamically adjust toward the workloads they serve, in a demand-aware manner. Online balanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

In this paper, we consider an online resource allocation problem where a decision maker accepts or rejects incoming customer requests irrevocably in order to maximize expected reward given limited resources. At each time, a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Yinyu Ye

We consider the design of efficient algorithms for a multicore computing environment with a global shared memory and p cores, each having a cache of size M, and with data organized in blocks of size B. We characterize the class of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Richard Cole , Vijaya Ramachandran

In a seminal work, Dooly, Goldman, and Scott (STOC 1998; JACM 2001) introduced the classic Online TCP Acknowledgment problem. In this problem, a sequence of $n$ packets arrives over time, and the objective is to minimize both the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sujoy Bhore , Michał Pawłowski , Seeun William Umboh

The online bisection problem is a natural dynamic variant of the classic optimization problem, where one has to dynamically maintain a partition of $n$ elements into two clusters of cardinality $n/2$. During runtime, an online algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Marcin Bienkowski , Stefan Schmid

Caching is a technique to reduce peak traffic rates by prefetching popular content into memories at the end users. Conventionally, these memories are used to deliver requested content in part from a locally cached copy rather than through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

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

In the classical caching problem, when a requested page is not present in the cache (i.e., a "miss"), it is assumed to travel from the backing store into the cache "before" the next request arrives. However, in many real-life applications,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Keerthana Gurushankar , Noah G. Singer , Bernardo Subercaseaux

In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching and computation in a multi-user cache-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system, consisting of one base station (BS) of caching and computing capabilities and multiple users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Ying Cui , Wen He , Chun Ni , Chengjun Guo , Zhi Liu

The multiaccess coded caching (MACC) system, as formulated by Hachem {\it et al.}, consists of a central server with a library of $N$ files, connected to $K$ cache-less users via an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenbo Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Xiaojun Li , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire