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In this paper, we consider five models of heavy-tailed queues involving Mittag-Leffler distributions that generalize the classical $M/M/1$ queues. These models are suitable modifications of previously defined models in such a way that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Giacomo Ascione , Luigia Caputo

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of a primary task by jointly learning with related auxiliary tasks. Traditional MTL methods select tasks randomly during training. However, both previous studies and our results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiangheng He , Junjie Chen , Björn W. Schuller

How should we schedule jobs to minimize mean queue length? In the preemptive M/G/1 queue, we know the optimal policy is the Gittins policy, which uses any available information about jobs' remaining service times to dynamically prioritize…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yige Hong , Ziv Scully

We study a class of systems termed Markov Machines (MM) which process job requests with exponential service times. Assuming a Poison job arrival process, these MMs oscillate between two states, free and busy. We consider the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus

On-time performance is a critical challenge in the airline industry, leading to large operational and customer dissatisfaction costs. The tail assignment problem builds the sequences of flights or routes followed by individual airplanes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Léo Baty , Axel Parmentier

One of the most profound challenges of modern machine learning is performing well on the long-tail of rare and underrepresented features. Large general-purpose models are trained for many tasks, but work best on high-frequency use cases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Daniel D'souza , Julia Kreutzer , Adrien Morisot , Ahmet Üstün , Sara Hooker

Large Language Model-based Recommender Systems (LRSs) have recently emerged as a new paradigm in sequential recommendation by directly adopting LLMs as backbones. While LRSs demonstrate strong knowledge utilization and instruction-following…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiaming Zhang , Yuyuan Li , Xiaohua Feng , Li Zhang , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Chaochao Chen

Clustered federated Multitask learning is introduced as an efficient technique when data is unbalanced and distributed amongst clients in a non-independent and identically distributed manner. While a similarity metric can provide client…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Abegaz Mohammed , Aiman Erbad , Octavia A. Dobre

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to cope with the exponential increase in 5G data traffic. Such networks typically require a very dense deployment of base stations. A subset of those, so-called macro base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dingwen Yuan , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Jörg Widmer , Matthias Hollick

We study a difficult problem of how to schedule complex workflows with precedence constraints under a limited budget in the cloud environment. We first formulate the scheduling problem as an integer programming problem, which can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hang Zhang , Xiaoying Zheng , Ye Xia , Mingqi Li

Modern computing systems process jobs with resource requirements such as CPU and memory, which are described by multiresource jobs (MRJ) queueing models. In practice, job resource requirements are spread out over so many values, that it is…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Heyuan Yao , Willow Kowalik , Izzy Grosof

We analyze the so-called Shortest Queue First (SQF) queueing discipline whereby a unique server addresses queues in parallel by serving at any time that queue with the smallest workload. Considering a stationary system composed of two…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Fabrice Guillemin , Alain Simonian

Online task scheduling serves an integral role for task-intensive applications in cloud computing and crowdsourcing. Optimal scheduling can enhance system performance, typically measured by the reward-to-cost ratio, under some task arrival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yongxin Xu , Shangshang Wang , Hengquan Guo , Xin Liu , Ziyu Shao

Traditionally, research focusing on the design of routing and staffing policies for service systems has modeled servers as having fixed (possibly heterogeneous) service rates. However, service systems are generally staffed by people.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan , Sherwin Doroudi , Amy R. Ward , Adam Wierman

In this paper, we investigate scheduling policies that minimize the age of information in single-hop queueing systems. We propose a Last-Generated, First-Serve (LGFS) scheduling policy, in which the packet with the earliest generation time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

This paper proposes a new class of online policies for scheduling in input-buffered crossbar switches. Our policies are throughput optimal for a large class of arrival processes which satisfy strong-law of large numbers. Given an initial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-02-09 Gagan Raj Gupta , Sujay Sanghavi , Ness B. Shroff

We consider the classic problem of scheduling jobs with precedence constraints on identical machines to minimize makespan, in the presence of communication delays. In this setting, denoted by $\mathsf{P} \mid \mathsf{prec}, c \mid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sami Davies , Janardhan Kulkarni , Thomas Rothvoss , Jakub Tarnawski , Yihao Zhang

In this paper, an online task scheduling and mapping method based on a fuzzy neural network (FNN) learned by an evolutionary multi-objective algorithm (NSGA-II) to jointly optimize the main design challenges of heterogeneous MPSoCs is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Athena Abdi , Armin Salimi-Badr

The execution time of programs is a key element in many areas of computer science, mainly those where achieving good performance (e.g., scheduling in cloud computing) or a predictable one (e.g., meeting deadlines in embedded systems) is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha

Recent advances in Model Predictive Control (MPC) leveraging a combination of first-order methods, such as the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), and offline precomputation and caching of select operations, have excitingly…

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