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Many decision processes run for a long and unknown duration: in each round new requests arrive, an irrevocable choice must be made immediately, and the system is judged by ongoing fairness requirements. Examples include food banks…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ido Kahana , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

The multi-armed bandits' framework is the most common platform to study strategies for sequential decision-making problems. Recently, the notion of fairness has attracted a lot of attention in the machine learning community. One can impose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Shaarad A. R , Ambedkar Dukkipati

We present new efficient \textit{projection-free} algorithms for online convex optimization (OCO), where by projection-free we refer to algorithms that avoid computing orthogonal projections onto the feasible set, and instead relay on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dan Garber , Ben Kretzu

We study the problem of fair online resource allocation via non-monetary mechanisms, where multiple agents repeatedly share a resource without monetary transfers. Previous work has shown that every agent can guarantee $1/2$ of their ideal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 David X. Lin , Daniel Hall , Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We consider the problem of online allocation (matching, budgeted allocations, and assortments) of reusable resources where an adversarial sequence of resource requests is revealed over time and any allocated resource is used/rented for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Vineet Goyal , Garud Iyengar , Rajan Udwani

We consider the problem of online allocation subject to a long-term fairness penalty. Contrary to existing works, however, we do not assume that the decision-maker observes the protected attributes -- which is often unrealistic in practice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Mathieu Molina , Nicolas Gast , Patrick Loiseau , Vianney Perchet

The notion of \emph{policy regret} in online learning is a well defined? performance measure for the common scenario of adaptive adversaries, which more traditional quantities such as external regret do not take into account. We revisit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Raman Arora , Michael Dinitz , Teodor V. Marinov , Mehryar Mohri

We study online learning settings in which experts act strategically to maximize their influence on the learning algorithm's predictions by potentially misreporting their beliefs about a sequence of binary events. Our goal is twofold.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Rupert Freeman , David M. Pennock , Chara Podimata , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Allocating scarce, indivisible resources to diverse groups under uncertainty is a central challenge in operations research, where efficiency-focused methods often underserve marginalized populations. We study the Fair Online Resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Igor Averbakh , Hongyi Jiang , Samitha Samaranayake , Akang Wang , Jianghua Wu

We study online resource allocation among N interacting modules over T rounds. Unlike standard online optimization, costs are endogenous: they depend on the full allocation vector through an interaction matrix W encoding pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Rui Chai

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

In this paper, we study a class of online optimization problems with long-term budget constraints where the objective functions are not necessarily concave (nor convex) but they instead satisfy the Diminishing Returns (DR) property.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Omid Sadeghi , Maryam Fazel

We initiate the study of two-sided online resource allocation with costly cancellations. Our focus is on edge-weighted online bipartite matching (and several of its extensions), where nodes arrive online and request offline resources. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Farbod Ekbatani , Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh

To efficiently solve online problems with complicated constraints, projection-free algorithms including online frank-wolfe (OFW) and its variants have received significant interest recently. However, in the general case, existing efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

Online learning in arbitrary, and possibly adversarial, environments has been extensively studied in sequential decision-making, and it is closely connected to equilibrium computation in game theory. Most existing online learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mingyang Liu , Yongshan Chen , Zhiyuan Fan , Gabriele Farina , Asuman Ozdaglar , Kaiqing Zhang

This paper considers a variant of the online paging problem, where the online algorithm has access to multiple predictors, each producing a sequence of predictions for the page arrival times. The predictors may have occasional prediction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Yangguang Shi

Classic no-regret multi-armed bandit algorithms, including the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB), Hedge, and EXP3, are inherently unfair by design. Their unfairness stems from their objective of playing the most rewarding arm as frequently as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Abhishek Sinha

We investigate constrained online convex optimization, in which decisions must belong to a fixed and typically complicated domain, and are required to approximately satisfy additional time-varying constraints over the long term. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yibo Wang , Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

Online resource allocation problems are central challenges in economics and computer science, modeling situations in which $n$ items arriving one at a time must each be immediately allocated among $m$ agents. In such problems, our objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kalen Patton

In contrast to offline working fashions, two research paradigms are devised for online learning: (1) Online Meta Learning (OML) learns good priors over model parameters (or learning to learn) in a sequential setting where tasks are revealed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chen Zhao , Feng Chen , Bhavani Thuraisingham