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The power consumption of enormous network devices in data centers has emerged as a big concern to data center operators. Despite many traffic-engineering-based solutions, very little attention has been paid on performance-guaranteed energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Lin Wang , Fa Zhang , Kai Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Shaolei Ren , Zhiyong Liu

Achieving chemical accuracy in quantum simulations is often constrained by the measurement bottleneck: estimating operators requires a large number of shots, which remains costly even on fault-tolerant devices and is further exacerbated on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Isaac L. Huidobro-Meezs , Jun Dai , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) were developed to learn policies for efficiently sampling combinatorial candidates by interpreting their generative processes as trajectories in directed acyclic graphs. In the value-based training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Puhua Niu , Shili Wu , Xiaoning Qian

We analyze the problem of scheduling in wireless networks to meet end-to-end service guarantees. Using network slicing to decouple the queueing dynamics between flows, we show that the network's ability to meet hard throughput and deadline…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

This paper is about the problem of learning a stochastic policy for generating an object (like a molecular graph) from a sequence of actions, such that the probability of generating an object is proportional to a given positive reward for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Emmanuel Bengio , Moksh Jain , Maksym Korablyov , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio

The recently proposed generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method of training a policy to sample compositional discrete objects with probabilities proportional to a given reward via a sequence of actions. GFlowNets exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Daniil Tiapkin , Nikita Morozov , Alexey Naumov , Dmitry Vetrov

GFlowNets are a promising alternative to MCMC sampling for discrete compositional random variables. Training GFlowNets requires repeated evaluations of the unnormalized target distribution or reward function. However, for large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Tiago da Silva , Luiz Max Carvalho , Amauri Souza , Samuel Kaski , Diego Mesquita

This paper studies the scheduling of jobs of different families on parallel machines with qualification constraints. Originating from semiconductor manufacturing, this constraint imposes a time threshold between the execution of two jobs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Margaux Nattaf , Arnaud Malapert

This paper studies the fundamental problem of how to reroute $k$ unsplittable flows of a certain demand in a capacitated network from their current paths to their respective new paths, in a congestion-free manner and fast. This scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Szymon Dudycz , Mahmoud Parham , Stefan Schmid , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a new family of probabilistic samplers, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities to generate diverse sets of high-reward candidates, in contrast to standard return maximization approaches (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haoran He , Can Chang , Huazhe Xu , Ling Pan

Control of multihop Wireless networks in a distributed manner while providing end-to-end delay requirements for different flows, is a challenging problem. Using the notions of Draining Time and Discrete Review from the theory of fluid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

Modern data centers face new scheduling challenges in optimizing job-level performance objectives, where a significant challenge is the scheduling of highly parallel data flows with a common performance goal (e.g., the shuffle operations in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Zhen Qiu , Cliff Stein , Yuan Zhong

This paper first presents a parallel solution for the Flowshop Scheduling Problem in parallel environment, and then proposes a novel load balancing strategy. The proposed Proportional Fairness Strategy (PFS) takes computational performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Zheng Sun , Xiaohong Huang , Yan Ma

We consider the problem of efficiently scheduling the production of goods for a model steel manufacturing company. We propose a new approach for solving this classic problem, using techniques from the statistical physics of complex networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-14 Osamu Yamaguchi , Soumen Roy , Raissa M. D'Souza

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a new family of probabilistic samplers where an agent learns a stochastic policy for generating complex combinatorial structure through a series of decision-making steps. Despite being inspired from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Dinghuai Zhang , Ling Pan , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Many modern datacenter applications involve large-scale computations composed of multiple data flows that need to be completed over a shared set of distributed resources. Such a computation completes when all of its flows complete. A useful…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Hamidreza Jahanjou , Erez Kantor , Rajmohan Rajaraman

We consider the problem of online scheduling on a single machine in order to minimize weighted flow time. The existing algorithms for this problem (STOC '01, SODA '03, FOCS '18) all require exact knowledge of the processing time of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yossi Azar , Stefano Leonardi , Noam Touitou

Automated planning is one of the foundational areas of AI. Since no single planner can work well for all tasks and domains, portfolio-based techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years. In particular, deep learning emerges as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tengfei Ma , Patrick Ferber , Siyu Huo , Jie Chen , Michael Katz

This paper focuses on the problem of coflow scheduling with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chi-Yeh Chen

Structured LLM workflows, where specialized LLM sub-agents execute according to a predefined graph, have become a powerful abstraction for solving complex tasks. Optimizing such workflows, i.e., selecting configurations for each sub-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Junyan Li , Zhang-Wei Hong , Maohao Shen , Yang Zhang , Chuang Gan