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Allocation of scarce healthcare resources under limited logistic and infrastructural facilities is a major issue in the modern society. We consider the problem of allocation of healthcare resources like vaccines to people or hospital beds…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Aadityan Ganesh , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Pratik Ghosal , Vishwa Prakash HV

In this work, we study an upgrading scheme for online resource allocation problems. We work in a sequential setting, where at each round a request for a resource arrives and the decision-maker has to decide whether to accept it (and thus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Patrick Jaillet , Chara Podimata , Andrew Vakhutinsky , Zijie Zhou

The rise of machine learning has shifted targeted resource allocation in policy and humanitarian settings toward algorithmic targeting based on predicted risk scores. This approach is typically cheaper and faster than traditional screening…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Santiago Cortes-Gomez , Mateo Dulce Rubio , Carlos Patino , Bryan Wilder

Public and private institutions must often allocate scare resources under uncertainty. Banks, for example, extend credit to loan applicants based in part on their estimated likelihood of repaying a loan. But when the quality of information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-11 William Cai , Johann Gaebler , Nikhil Garg , Sharad Goel

Online strategic classification studies settings in which agents strategically modify their features to obtain favorable predictions. For example, given a classifier that determines loan approval based on credit scores, applicants may open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod , Han Shao

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

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

This paper studies online resource allocation with replenishable budgets, where budgets can be replenished on top of the initial budget and an agent sequentially chooses online allocation decisions without violating the available budget…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jianyi Yang , Pengfei Li , Mohammad Jaminur Islam , Shaolei Ren

We consider a fair resource allocation problem in the no-regret setting against an unrestricted adversary. The objective is to allocate resources equitably among several agents in an online fashion so that the difference of the aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Abhishek Sinha , Ativ Joshi , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Cameron Musco , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

Online bidding is a classical problem in online decision-making, with applications in resource allocation, hierarchical clustering, and the analysis of approximation algorithms. We study its randomized learning-augmented variant, where an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mathis Degryse , Imrane Saakour , Christoph Dürr , Spyros Angelopoulos

The study of online decision-making problems that leverage contextual information has drawn notable attention due to their significant applications in fields ranging from healthcare to autonomous systems. In modern applications, contextual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-22 Qiyu Han , Will Wei Sun , Yichen Zhang

We introduce a natural online allocation problem that connects several of the most fundamental problems in online optimization. Let $M$ be an $n$-point metric space. Consider a resource that can be allocated in arbitrary fractions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nikhil Bansal , Christian Coester

With the popularity of the Internet, traditional offline resource allocation has evolved into a new form, called online resource allocation. It features the online arrivals of agents in the system and the real-time decision-making…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yifan Xu , Pan Xu , Jianping Pan , Jun Tao

Efficient and truthful mechanisms to price resources on remote servers/machines has been the subject of much work in recent years due to the importance of the cloud market. This paper considers revenue maximization in the online stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Shant Boodaghians , Federico Fusco , Stefano Leonardi , Yishay Mansour , Ruta Mehta

In online interval scheduling, the input is an online sequence of intervals, and the goal is to accept a maximum number of non-overlapping intervals. In the more general disjoint path allocation problem, the input is a sequence of requests,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen

The configuration balancing problem with stochastic requests generalizes many well-studied resource allocation problems such as load balancing and virtual circuit routing. In it, we have $m$ resources and $n$ requests. Each request has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Franziska Eberle , Anupam Gupta , Nicole Megow , Benjamin Moseley , Rudy Zhou

The burgeoning field of algorithms with predictions studies the problem of using possibly imperfect machine learning predictions to improve online algorithm performance. While nearly all existing algorithms in this framework make no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bo Sun , Jerry Huang , Nicolas Christianson , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Raouf Boutaba

In recent years many important societal decisions are made by machine-learning algorithms, and many such important decisions have strict capacity limits, allowing resources to be allocated only to the highest utility individuals. For…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Eitan Bachmat , Inbal Livni Navon

Online learning algorithms are fast, memory-efficient, easy to implement, and applicable to many prediction problems, including classification, regression, and ranking. Several online algorithms were proposed in the past few decades, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Francesco Orabona , Koby Crammer , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

We study online optimization in a setting where an online learner seeks to optimize a per-round hitting cost, which may be non-convex, while incurring a movement cost when changing actions between rounds. We ask: \textit{under what general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Yiheng Lin , Gautam Goel , Adam Wierman