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This paper investigates the non-clairvoyant parallel machine scheduling problem with prediction, with the objective of minimizing the makespan. Improved lower bounds for the problem and competitive ratios of online algorithms with respect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Tianqi Chen , Zhiyi Tan

We study online mechanisms for preemptive scheduling with deadlines, with the goal of maximizing the total value of completed jobs. This problem is fundamental to deadline-aware cloud scheduling, but there are strong lower bounds even for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Yossi Azar , Inna Kalp-Shaltiel , Brendan Lucier , Ishai Menache , Joseph , Naor , Jonathan Yaniv

Algorithms with predictions is a recent framework that has been used to overcome pessimistic worst-case bounds in incomplete information settings. In the context of scheduling, very recent work has leveraged machine-learned predictions to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Eric Balkanski , Tingting Ou , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) plays a central role in the automated machine learning (AutoML). It is a challenging task as the response surfaces of hyperparameters are generally unknown, hence essentially a global optimization problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang

Our work introduces the effect of supply/demand imbalances into the literature on online matching with stochastic rewards in bipartite graphs. We provide a parameterized definition that characterizes instances as over- or undersupplied (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Benjamin Barrientos , Daniel Freund , Daniela Saban

In non-clairvoyant scheduling, the task is to find an online strategy for scheduling jobs with a priori unknown processing requirements with the objective to minimize the total (weighted) completion time. We revisit this well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

We study online algorithms with predictions using distributional advice, a type of prediction that arises when leveraging expert knowledge or historical data. To demonstrate the usefulness and versatility of this framework, we focus on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Clément L. Canonne , Kenny Chen , Julián Mestre

The field of algorithms with predictions incorporates machine learning advice in the design of online algorithms to improve real-world performance. A central consideration is the extent to which predictions can be trusted -- while existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Judy Hanwen Shen , Ellen Vitercik , Anders Wikum

As the demand of real time computing increases day by day, there is a major paradigm shift in processing platform of real time system from single core to multi-core platform which provides advantages like higher throughput, linear power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Girish Talmale , Urmila Shrawankar

We consider the online machine 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. Our main result is a general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, the competitive ratio of our algorithm tends to 1, as the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Sourav Chakraborty , Nikhil Devanur

Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

An important goal of modern scheduling systems is to efficiently manage power usage. In energy-efficient scheduling, the operating system controls the speed at which a machine is processing jobs with the dual objective of minimizing energy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Eric Balkanski , Noemie Perivier , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

Modern applications increasingly rely on inference serving systems to provide low-latency insights with a diverse set of machine learning models. Existing systems often utilize resource elasticity to scale with demand. However, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Joel Wolfrath , Daniel Frink , Abhishek Chandra

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

The design of online algorithms has tended to focus on algorithms with worst-case guarantees, e.g., bounds on the competitive ratio. However, it is well-known that such algorithms are often overly pessimistic, performing sub-optimally on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Ali Zeynali , Bo Sun , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman

The forthcoming 6G networks will embrace a new realm of AI-driven services that requires innovative network slicing strategies, namely slicing for AI, which involves the creation of customized network slices to meet Quality of service (QoS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Menna Helmy , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Naram Mhaisen , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad

In this paper, we design an analytically and experimentally better online energy and job scheduling algorithm with the objective of maximizing net profit for a service provider in green data centers. We first study the previously known…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Huangxin Wang , Jean X. Zhang , Fei Li