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In the Colored Bin Packing problem a sequence of items of sizes up to $1$ arrives to be packed into bins of unit capacity. Each item has one of $c\geq 2$ colors and an additional constraint is that we cannot pack two items of the same color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Martin Böhm , Jiří Sgall , Pavel Veselý

In the online multiple knapsack problem, an algorithm faces a stream of items, and each item has to be either rejected or stored irrevocably in one of $n$ bins (knapsacks) of equal size. The gain of an~algorithm is equal to the sum of sizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Marcin Bienkowski , Maciej Pacut , Krzysztof Piecuch

We study different online optimization problems in the random-order model. There is a finite set of bins with known capacity and a finite set of items arriving in a random order. Upon arrival of an item, its size and its value for each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Max Klimm , Martin Knaack

The online bin covering problem is: given an input sequence of items find a placement of the items in the maximum number of bins such that the sum of the items' sizes in each bin is at least~1. Boyar~{\em et~al}.\@~\cite{boyar2021} present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Andrej Brodnik , Bengt J. Nilsson , Gordana Vujović

Imagine yourself moving to another place, and therefore, you need to pack all of your belongings into moving boxes with some capacity. In the classical bin packing model, you would try to minimize the number of boxes, knowing the exact size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Matthias Gehnen , Andreas Usdenski

Semi-online algorithms that are allowed to perform a bounded amount of repacking achieve guaranteed good worst-case behaviour in a more realistic setting. Most of the previous works focused on minimization problems that aim to minimize some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sebastian Berndt , Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Lukas Johannsen , Maria Kosche

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

We study a variant of online bin packing, called colorful bin packing. In this problem, items that are presented one by one are to be packed into bins of size 1. Each item i has a size s_i \in [0,1] and a color c_i \in C, where C is a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Gyorgy Dosa , Leah Epstein

Stochastic optimization is a widely used approach for optimization under uncertainty, where uncertain input parameters are modeled by random variables. Exact or approximation algorithms have been obtained for several fundamental problems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Arpit Agarwal , Rohan Ghuge , Viswanath Nagarajan , Zhengjia Zhuo

A variant of the online knapsack problem is considered in the settings of trusted and untrusted predictions. In Unit Profit Knapsack, the items have unit profit, and it is easy to find an optimal solution offline: Pack as many of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

This paper is devoted to the online dominating set problem and its variants. We believe the paper represents the first systematic study of the effect of two limitations of online algorithms: making irrevocable decisions while not knowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Joan Boyar , Stephan J. Eidenbenz , Lene M. Favrholdt , Michal Kotrbčík , Kim S. Larsen

Given a sequence of independent random variables with a common continuous distribution, we consider the online decision problem where one seeks to minimize the expected value of the time that is needed to complete the selection of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Alessandro Arlotto , Elchanan Mossel , J. Michael Steele

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

We consider the online version of the piercing set problem, where geometric objects arrive one by one, and the online algorithm must maintain a valid piercing set for the already arrived objects by making irrevocable decisions. It is easy…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Minati De , Saksham Jain , Sarat Varma Kallepalli , Satyam Singh

The blessing of ubiquitous data also comes with a curse: the communication, storage, and labeling of massive, mostly redundant datasets. We seek to solve this problem at its core, collecting only valuable data and throwing out the rest via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Mariel Werner , Anastasios Angelopoulos , Stephen Bates , Michael I. Jordan

The Bin Packing Problem involves efficiently packing items into a limited number of bins without exceeding their capacity. In this paper, we try to answer a specific question in this field. Mathematically the combinatorial optimization…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Angshuman Robin Goswami

In the online bin packing problem, items of sizes in (0,1] arrive online to be packed into bins of size 1. The goal is to minimize the number of used bins. In this paper, we present an online bin packing algorithm with asymptotic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Sandy Heydrich , Rob van Stee

We introduce the Online Unbounded Knapsack Problem with Removal, a variation of the well-known Online Knapsack Problem. Items, each with a weight and value, arrive online and an algorithm must decide on whether or not to pack them into a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matthias Gehnen , Moritz Stocker

In the online sorting problem, $n$ items are revealed one by one and have to be placed (immediately and irrevocably) into empty cells of a size-$n$ array. The goal is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between items in consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Ioana O. Bercea , Lorenzo Beretta , Jonas Klausen , László Kozma