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In cloud computing, users scale their resources (computational) based on their need. There is massive literature dealing with such resource scaling algorithms. These works ignore a fundamental constrain imposed by all Cloud Service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Gourav Saha , Ramkrishna Pasumarthy

Motivated by the recent popularity of machine learning training services, we introduce a contract design problem in which a provider sells a service that results in an outcome of uncertain quality for the buyer. The seller has a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Krishnamurthy Iyer , Alec Sun , Haifeng Xu , You Zu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown significant promise for sequential portfolio optimization tasks, such as stock trading, where the objective is to maximize cumulative returns while minimizing risks using historical data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochen Yuan , Minting Pan , Yunbo Wang , Siyu Gao , Philip S. Yu , Xiaokang Yang

We consider one-way vehicle sharing systems where customers can rent a car at one station and drop it off at another. The problem we address is to optimize the distribution of cars, and quality of service, by pricing rentals appropriately.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Yinlam Chow , Jia Yuan Yu , Marco Pavone

We study the fundamental online k-server problem in a learning-augmented setting. While in the traditional online model, an algorithm has no information about the request sequence, we assume that there is given some advice (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Bertrand Simon

We study online configuration selection with admission control problem, which arises in LLM serving, GPU scheduling, and revenue management. In a planning horizon with $T$ periods, we consider a two-layer framework for the decisions made…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Owen Shen , Haoran Xu , Yinyu Ye , Peter Glynn , Patrick Jaillet

This paper addresses the critical challenge of managing Quality of Service (QoS) in cloud services, focusing on the nuances of individual tenant expectations and varying Service Level Indicators (SLIs). It introduces a novel approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Enrico Russo , Francesco Giulio Blanco , Maurizio Palesi , Giuseppe Ascia , Davide Patti , Vincenzo Catania

Online bidding is a classic optimization problem, with several applications in online decision-making, the design of interruptible systems, and the analysis of approximation algorithms. In this work, we study online bidding under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Spyros Angelopoulos , Bertrand Simon

Online Travel Platforms are virtual two-sided marketplaces where guests search for accommodations and accommodation providers list their properties such as hotels and vacation rentals. The large majority of hotels are rated by official…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Anastasiia Kornilova , Lucas Bernardi

Online scheduling in identical machines with makespan minimization has been a well studied research problem in the literature. In online scheduling, the scheduler receives a list of jobs one by one and assigns each incoming job on the fly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty

We study the power of (competitive) algorithms with predictions in a multiagent setting. To this goal, we introduce a multiagent version of the ski-rental problem. In this problem agents can collaborate by pooling resources to get a group…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Gabriel Istrate , Cosmin Bonchiş , Victor Bogdan

We address the challenging problem of dynamically pricing complementary items that are sequentially displayed to customers. An illustrative example is the online sale of flight tickets, where customers navigate through multiple web pages.…

Stochastic optimization is one of the central problems in Machine Learning and Theoretical Computer Science. In the standard model, the algorithm is given a fixed distribution known in advance. In practice though, one may acquire at a cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mingchen Ma , Christos Tzamos

Downtime of industrial assets such as wind turbines and medical imaging devices is costly. To avoid such downtime costs, companies seek to initiate maintenance just before failure, which is challenging because: (i) Asset failures are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Peter Verleijsdonk , Willem van Jaarsveld , Stella Kapodistria

Matching and pricing are two critical levers in two-sided marketplaces to connect demand and supply. The platform can produce more efficient matching and pricing decisions by batching the demand requests. We initiate the study of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi

We study the dynamic pricing and replenishment problems under inconsistent decision frequencies. Different from the traditional demand assumption, the discreteness of demand and the parameter within the Poisson distribution as a function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yi Zheng , Zehao Li , Peng Jiang , Yijie Peng

Online allocation is a broad class of problems where items arriving online have to be allocated to agents who have a fixed utility/cost for each assigned item so to maximize/minimize some objective. This framework captures a broad range of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Debmalya Panigrahi

We propose an approach based on machine learning to solve two-stage linear adaptive robust optimization (ARO) problems with binary here-and-now variables and polyhedral uncertainty sets. We encode the optimal here-and-now decisions, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dimitris Bertsimas , Cheol Woo Kim

We show how to utilize machine learning approaches to improve sliding window algorithms for approximate frequency estimation problems, under the ``algorithms with predictions'' framework. In this dynamic environment, previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Rana Shahout , Ibrahim Sabek , Michael Mitzenmacher

Algorithms with predictions} has emerged as a powerful framework to combine the robustness of traditional online algorithms with the data-driven performance benefits of machine-learned (ML) predictions. However, most existing approaches in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Sizhe Li , Nicolas Christianson , Tongxin Li