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We study single-machine scheduling of jobs, each belonging to a job type that determines its duration distribution. We start by analyzing the scenario where the type characteristics are known and then move to two learning scenarios where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Nadav Merlis , Hugo Richard , Flore Sentenac , Corentin Odic , Mathieu Molina , Vianney Perchet

We study scheduling problems on a machine with varying speed. Assuming a known speed function we ask for a cost-efficient scheduling solution. Our main result is a PTAS for minimizing the total weighted completion time in this setting. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nicole Megow , José Verschae

Organizations around the world schedule jobs (programs) regularly to perform various tasks dictated by their end users. With the major movement towards using a cloud computing infrastructure, our organization follows a hybrid approach with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sunandita Patra , Mehtab Pathan , Mahmoud Mahfouz , Parisa Zehtabi , Wided Ouaja , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

We study a scheduling problem in which jobs may be split into parts, where the parts of a split job may be processed simultaneously on more than one machine. Each part of a job requires a setup time, however, on the machine where the job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Victor Verdugo , Anke van Zuylen

This work studies the statistical limits of uniform convergence for offline policy evaluation (OPE) problems with model-based methods (for episodic MDP) and provides a unified framework towards optimal learning for several well-motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ming Yin , Yu-Xiang Wang

The NP-hard MATERIAL CONSUMPTION SCHEDULING Problem and closely related problems have been thoroughly studied since the 1980's. Roughly speaking, the problem deals with minimizing the makespan when scheduling jobs that consume non-renewable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Matthias Bentert , Robert Bredereck , Péter Györgyi , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

Parallel thinking improves LLM reasoning through multi-path sampling and aggregation. In standard evaluations, due to a lack of sample-specific priors, all samples share a global budget chosen to maximize dataset accuracy. However, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Rui Wang

This paper develops a data-driven, constraint-based optimization framework for a complex industrial job shop scheduling problem variant in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The formulation captures fixed routings and designated machines,…

Current main memory database system architectures are still challenged by high contention workloads and this challenge will continue to grow as the number of cores in processors continues to increase. These systems schedule transactions…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Yangjun Sheng , Anthony Tomasic , Tieying Zhang , Andrew Pavlo

Automatic prompt optimization (APO) hinges on the quality of its evaluation signal, yet scoring every prompt candidate on the full training set is prohibitively expensive. Existing methods either fix a single evaluation subset before…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoyu Ma , Yiwen Li , Haoyue Liu , Zhichao Wang , Ye Chen , Yongxin Guo , Xiaoying Tang

This report considers a sporadic real-time task system with $n$ sporadic tasks on a uniprocessor platform, in which the lowest-priority task is a segmented self-suspension task and the other higher-priority tasks are ordinary sporadic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jian-Jia Chen

We study the adversarial robustness in offline reinforcement learning. Given a batch dataset consisting of tuples $(s, a, r, s')$, an adversary is allowed to arbitrarily modify $\epsilon$ fraction of the tuples. From the corrupted dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xuezhou Zhang , Yiding Chen , Jerry Zhu , Wen Sun

We study the computational complexity of scheduling jobs on a single speed-scalable processor with the objective of capturing the trade-off between the (weighted) flow time and the energy consumption. This trade-off has been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Antonios Antoniadis , Denise Graafsma , Ruben Hoeksma , Maria Vlasiou

In this paper, we consider the online version of the machine minimization problem (introduced by Chuzhoy et al., FOCS 2004), where the goal is to schedule a set of jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing lengths on a minimum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nikhil Devanur , Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

In the moldable job scheduling problem one has to assign a set of $n$ jobs to $m$ machines, in order to minimize the time it takes to process all jobs. Each job is moldable, so it can be assigned not only to one but any number of the equal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge

Online linear programming (OLP) has found broad applications in revenue management and resource allocation. State-of-the-art OLP algorithms achieve low regret by repeatedly solving linear programming (LP) subproblems that incorporate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Jingruo Sun , Wenzhi Gao , Ellen Vitercik , Yinyu Ye

One way to reduce the time of conducting optimization studies is to evaluate designs in parallel rather than just one-at-a-time. For expensive-to-evaluate black-boxes, batch versions of Bayesian optimization have been proposed. They work by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Mickael Binois , Nicholson Collier , Jonathan Ozik

Consider a scheduling problem in which jobs need to be processed on a single machine. Each job has a weight and is composed of several operations belonging to different families. The machine needs to perform a setup between the processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Alexander Mäcker , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Simon Pukrop

We consider a scheduling problem where machines need to be rented from the cloud in order to process jobs. There are two types of machines available which can be rented for machine-type dependent prices and for arbitrary durations. However,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers

We study shared processor scheduling of $\textit{multiprocessor}$ weighted jobs where each job can be executed on its private processor and simultaneously on possibly $\textit{many}$ processors shared by all jobs in order to reduce their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak