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In the prophet secretary problem, $n$ values are drawn independently from known distributions, and presented in a uniformly random order. A decision-maker must accept or reject each value when it is presented, and may accept at most $k$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Nick Arnosti , Will Ma

We study the online unweighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival order model, with $n$ offline and $n$ online vertices, in the learning-augmented setting: The algorithm is provided with untrusted predictions of the types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kunanon Burathep , Thomas Erlebach , William K. Moses

We study packing LPs in an online model where the columns are presented to the algorithm in random order. This natural problem was investigated in various recent studies motivated, e.g., by online ad allocations and yield management where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Thomas Kesselheim , Klaus Radke , Andreas Tönnis , Berthold Vöcking

This paper provides threshold policies with tight guarantees for online selection with convex cost (OSCC). In OSCC, a seller wants to sell some asset to a sequence of buyers with the goal of maximizing her profit. The seller can produce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Xiaoqi Tan , Siyuan Yu , Raouf Boutaba , Alberto Leon-Garcia

We study a fundamental online job admission problem where jobs with deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates, and the task is to determine a preemptive single-server schedule which maximizes the number of jobs that complete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Lin Chen , Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior , Cliff Stein

Submodular function maximization has been studied extensively in recent years under various constraints and models. The problem plays a major role in various disciplines. We study a natural online variant of this problem in which elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman , Roy Schwartz

Given $n$ elements, an integer $k$ and a parameter $\varepsilon$, we study to select an element with rank in $(k-n\varepsilon,k+n\varepsilon]$ using unreliable comparisons where the outcome of each comparison is incorrect independently with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Shengyu Huang , Chih-Hung Liu , Daniel Rutschman

We consider prophet inequalities in a setting where agents correspond to both elements in a matroid and vertices in a graph. A set of agents is feasible if they form both an independent set in the matroid and an independent set in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Jackie Baek , Will Ma

We consider the online resource 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. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

The problem of online scheduling of multi-server jobs is considered, where there are a total of $K$ servers, and each job requires concurrent service from multiple servers for it to be processed. Each job on its arrival reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rahul Vaze

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

We study \emph{parallel} online algorithms: For some fixed integer $k$, a collective of $k$ parallel processes that perform online decisions on the same sequence of events forms a $k$-\emph{copy algorithm}. For any given time and input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Sándor P. Fekete , Jonas Grosse-Holz , Phillip Keldenich , Arne Schmidt

We study online competitive algorithms for the \emph{line chasing problem} in Euclidean spaces $\reals^d$, where the input consists of an initial point $P_0$ and a sequence of lines $X_1,X_2,...,X_m$, revealed one at a time. At each step…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Marcin Bienkowski , Jarosław Byrka , Marek Chrobak , Christian Coester , Łukasz Jeż , Elias Koutsoupias

This paper studies online algorithms augmented with multiple machine-learned predictions. While online algorithms augmented with a single prediction have been extensively studied in recent years, the literature for the multiple predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Keerti Anand , Rong Ge , Amit Kumar , Debmalya Panigrahi

The knapsack problem is one of the classical problems in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each specified by its size and profit, the goal is to find a maximum profit packing into a knapsack of bounded capacity. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Arindam Khan , Leon Ladewig

Bin packing is a classic optimization problem with a wide range of applications, from load balancing to supply chain management. In this work, we study the online variant of the problem, in which a sequence of items of various sizes must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Kimia Shadkami

We study the pricing query complexity of revenue maximization for a single buyer whose private valuation is drawn from an unknown distribution. In this setting, the seller must learn the optimal monopoly price by posting prices and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Wei Tang , Yifan Wang , Mengxiao Zhang

A major technique in learning-augmented online algorithms is combining multiple algorithms or predictors. Since the performance of each predictor may vary over time, it is desirable to use not the single best predictor as a benchmark, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Antonios Antoniadis , Christian Coester , Marek Eliáš , Adam Polak , Bertrand Simon

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We study the online bounded-delay packet scheduling problem (BDPS), where packets of unit size arrive at a router over time and need to be transmitted over a network link. Each packet has two attributes: a non-negative weight and a deadline…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Martin Böhm , Marek Chrobak , Łukasz Jeż , Fei Li , Jiří Sgall , Pavel Veselý