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Malaria is an infectious disease affecting a large population across the world, and interventions need to be efficiently applied to reduce the burden of malaria. We develop a framework to help policy-makers decide how to allocate limited…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-12 Qian Guan , Brian J. Reich , Eric B. Laber

Many interventions, such as vaccines in clinical trials or coupons in online marketplaces, must be assigned sequentially without full knowledge of their effects. Multi-armed bandit algorithms have proven successful in such settings.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Aidan Gleich , Eric Laber , Alexander Volfovsky

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

We study a school choice problem under affirmative action policies where authorities reserve a certain fraction of the slots at each school for specific student groups, and where students have preferences not only over the schools they are…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-05-05 Orhan Aygün , Bertan Turhan

Classification tasks play a fundamental role in various applications, spanning domains such as healthcare, natural language processing and computer vision. With the growing popularity and capacity of machine learning models, people can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Dujian Ding , Bicheng Xu , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

We consider the problem of fair resource allocation in a system where user demands are dynamic, that is, where user demands vary over time. Our key observation is that the classical max-min fairness algorithm for resource allocation…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Midhul Vuppalapati , Giannis Fikioris , Rachit Agarwal , Asaf Cidon , Anurag Khandelwal , Eva Tardos

This paper focuses on the problem of finding a particular data recommendation strategy based on the user preferences and a system expected revenue. To this end, we formulate this problem as an optimization by designing the recommendation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shanyun Liu , Yunquan Dong , Pingyi Fan , Rui She , Shuo Wan

Centralized training is widely utilized in the field of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to assure the stability of training process. Once a joint policy is obtained, it is critical to design a value function factorization method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Rizhong Wang , Huiping Li , Di Cui , Demin Xu

Influence maximization in networks is a central problem in machine learning and causal inference, where an intervention on a subset of individuals triggers a diffusion process through the network. Existing approaches typically optimize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Renjie Cao , Zhuoxin Yan , Xinyan Su , Zhiheng Zhang

Impartial selection problems are concerned with the selection of one or more agents from a set based on mutual nominations from within the set. To avoid strategic nominations of the agents, the axiom of impartiality requires that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Javier Cembrano , Max Klimm , Arturo Merino

In cooperative multi-agent tasks, a team of agents jointly interact with an environment by taking actions, receiving a team reward and observing the next state. During the interactions, the uncertainty of environment and reward will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jian Zhao , Mingyu Yang , Youpeng Zhao , Xunhan Hu , Wengang Zhou , Jiangcheng Zhu , Houqiang Li

We consider variants of the restricted assignment problem where a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines, for each job a size and a set of eligible machines is given, and the jobs may only be assigned to eligible machines with…

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We consider a risk-averse stochastic capacity planning problem under uncertain demand in each period. Using a scenario tree representation of the uncertainty, we formulate a multistage stochastic integer program to adjust the capacity…

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Optimal resource allocation (RA) in massive carrier aggregation scenarios is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem whose dimension is proportional to the number of users, component carriers (CCs), and OFDMA resource blocks per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Stelios Stefanatos , Fotis Foukalas , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

When facing an extreme stressor, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems typically respond reactively by creating surge capacity at facilities that are at or approaching their baseline capacity. However, creating individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Felix Parker , Hamilton Sawczuk , Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Farzin Ahmadi , Kimia Ghobadi

LLM-based agents have been extensively applied across various domains, where memory stands out as one of their most essential capabilities. Previous memory mechanisms of LLM-based agents are manually predefined by human experts, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zeyu Zhang , Quanyu Dai , Rui Li , Xiaohe Bo , Xu Chen , Zhenhua Dong

We study the sequential decision-making problem of allocating a limited resource to agents that reveal their stochastic demands on arrival over a finite horizon. Our goal is to design fair allocation algorithms that exhaust the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Eleonora Kreacic , Sihan Zeng , Yuchen Xiao , Sumitra Ganesh

In previous articles, we formalized the problem of optimal allocation strategies for a (perfect) vaccine in an infinite-dimensional metapopulation model. The aim of the current paper is to illustrate this theoretical framework with multiple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Jean-François Delmas , Dylan Dronnier , Pierre-André Zitt

Operational decisions in healthcare, logistics, and public policy increasingly involve algorithms that recommend candidate solutions, such as treatment plans, delivery routes, or policy options, while leaving the final choice to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Michael Lingzhi Li , Shixiang Zhu