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In this work we address a game theoretic variant of the shortest path problem, in which two decision makers (players) move together along the edges of a graph from a given starting vertex to a given destination. The two players take turns…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Andreas Darmann , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

Online learning with expert advice is widely used in various machine learning tasks. It considers the problem where a learner chooses one from a set of experts to take advice and make a decision. In many learning problems, experts may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Pouya M Ghari , Yanning Shen

Online algorithm is an important branch in algorithm design. Designing online algorithms with a bounded competitive ratio (in terms of worst-case performance) can be hard and usually relies on problem-specific assumptions. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Bingqian Du , Zhiyi Huang , Chuan Wu

Computing lower and upper bounds on the competitive ratio of online algorithms is a challenging question: For a minimization combinatorial problem, proving a competitive ratio for a given algorithm leads to an upper bound. However computing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Antoine Lhomme , Olivier Romane , Nicolas Catusse , Nadia Brauner

Since its introduction as a Maker-Breaker positional game by Duch\^ene et al. in 2020, the Maker-Breaker domination game has become one of the most studied positional games on vertices. In this game, two players, Dominator and Staller,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Guillaume Bagan , Mathieu Hilaire , Nacim Oijid , Aline Parreau

The learning complexity of special sets of vertices in graphs is studied in the model(s) of exact learning by (extended) equivalence and membership queries. Polynomial-time learning algorithms are described for vertex covers, independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Lane H. Clark , Patricia A. Evans , Michael R. Fellows , Walter D. Wallis

Uncertainty quantification is crucial in safety-critical systems, where decisions must be made under uncertainty. In particular, we consider the problem of online uncertainty quantification, where data points arrive sequentially. Online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junyoung Yang , Kyungmin Kim , Sangdon Park

Online conformal prediction has demonstrated its capability to construct a prediction set for each incoming data point that covers the true label with a predetermined probability. To cope with potential distribution shift, multi-model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Erfan Hajihashemi , Yanning Shen

We study online robust matrix completion on graphs. At each iteration a vector with some entries missing is revealed and our goal is to reconstruct it by identifying the underlying low-dimensional subspace from which the vectors are drawn.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Symeon Chouvardas , Mohammed Amin Abdullah , Lucas Claude , Moez Draief

In this paper, online game is studied, where at each time, a group of players aim at selfishly minimizing their own time-varying cost function simultaneously subject to time-varying coupled constraints and local feasible set constraints.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Long Wang

We study the computational complexity of a perfect-information two-player game proposed by Aigner and Fromme. The game takes place on an undirected graph where n simultaneously moving cops attempt to capture a single robber, all moving at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-12-19 Marcello Mamino

Graph games lie at the algorithmic core of many automated design problems in computer science. These are games usually played between two players on a given graph, where the players keep moving a token along the edges according to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guy Avni , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Thomas A. Henzinger , Kaushik Mallik

We propose a distributed algorithm to compute an equilibrium in aggregate games where players communicate over a fixed undirected network. Our algorithm exploits correlated perturbation to obfuscate information shared over the network. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Shripad Gade , Anna Winnicki , Subhonmesh Bose

An important objective for analyzing real-world graphs is to achieve scalable performance on large, streaming graphs. A challenging and relevant example is the graph partition problem. As a combinatorial problem, graph partition is NP-hard,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Edward Kao , Vijay Gadepally , Michael Hurley , Michael Jones , Jeremy Kepner , Sanjeev Mohindra , Paul Monticciolo , Albert Reuther , Siddharth Samsi , William Song , Diane Staheli , Steven Smith

Graph similarity computation aims to predict a similarity score between one pair of graphs to facilitate downstream applications, such as finding the most similar chemical compounds similar to a query compound or Fewshot 3D Action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Haoyan Xu , Ziheng Duan , Jie Feng , Runjian Chen , Qianru Zhang , Zhongbin Xu , Yueyang Wang

Team Coordination on Graphs with Risky Edges (TCGRE) is a recently emerged problem, in which a robot team collectively reduces graph traversal cost through support from one robot to another when the latter traverses a risky edge. Resembling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yanlin Zhou , Manshi Limbu , Gregory J. Stein , Xuan Wang , Daigo Shishika , Xuesu Xiao

Within the context of stochastic probing with commitment, we consider the online stochastic matching problem; that is, the one-sided online bipartite matching problem where edges adjacent to an online node must be probed to determine if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury , Akash Rakheja

In this paper we study the mincut problem in the online setting. We consider two distinct models: A) competitive analysis and B) regret analysis. In the competitive setting we consider the vertex arrival model; whenever a new vertex arrives…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Avah Banerjee , Guoli Ding

Many resource allocation problems in the cloud can be described as a basic Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNEP): the problem of finding a mapping of a request graph (describing a workload) onto a substrate graph (describing the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Matthias Rost , Stefan Schmid

We consider a natural extension of online makespan scheduling on identical parallel machines by introducing scenarios. A scenario is a subset of jobs, and the task of our problem is to find a global assignment of the jobs to machines so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ekin Ergen