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In non-clairvoyant scheduling, the task is to find an online strategy for scheduling jobs with a priori unknown processing requirements with the objective to minimize the total (weighted) completion time. We revisit this well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow

We consider non-clairvoyant scheduling with online precedence constraints, where an algorithm is oblivious to any job dependencies and learns about a job only if all of its predecessors have been completed. Given strong impossibility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alexandra Lassota , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

In non-clairvoyant scheduling, the goal is to minimize the total job completion time without prior knowledge of individual job processing times. This classical online optimization problem has recently gained attention through the framework…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ziyad Benomar , Romain Cosson , Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

This paper investigates the non-clairvoyant parallel machine scheduling problem with prediction, with the objective of minimizing the makespan. Improved lower bounds for the problem and competitive ratios of online algorithms with respect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Tianqi Chen , Zhiyi Tan

We consider the online problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines, where jobs have precedence constraints. We are interested in the demanding setting where the jobs sizes are not known up-front, but are revealed only upon completion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Naveen Garg , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Sahil Singla

This paper considers using predictions in the context of the online Joint Replenishment Problem with Deadlines (JRP-D). Prior work includes asymptotically optimal competitive ratios of $O(1)$ for the clairvoyant setting and $O(\sqrt{n})$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Michael Dinitz , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seeun William Umboh

Algorithms with predictions is a recent framework that has been used to overcome pessimistic worst-case bounds in incomplete information settings. In the context of scheduling, very recent work has leveraged machine-learned predictions to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Eric Balkanski , Tingting Ou , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

We consider online scheduling on unrelated (heterogeneous) machines in a speed-oblivious setting, where an algorithm is unaware of the exact job-dependent processing speeds. We show strong impossibility results for clairvoyant and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Martin Rapp

Learning-augmented algorithms have emerged as a powerful paradigm to surpass traditional worst-case lower bounds by integrating potentially noisy predictions. While this framework has seen success in online scheduling, existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mugen Blue , Sungjin Im , Alexander Lindermayr

The research area of algorithms with predictions has seen recent success showing how to incorporate machine learning into algorithm design to improve performance when the predictions are correct, while retaining worst-case guarantees when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Michael Dinitz , Sungjin Im , Thomas Lavastida , Benjamin Moseley , Sergei Vassilvitskii

In this work we study the problem of using machine-learned predictions to improve the performance of online algorithms. We consider two classical problems, ski rental and non-clairvoyant job scheduling, and obtain new online algorithms that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Ravi Kumar , Manish Purohit , Zoya Svitkina

The field of learning-augmented algorithms has gained significant attention in recent years. These algorithms, using potentially inaccurate predictions, must exhibit three key properties: consistency, robustness, and smoothness. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ziyad Benomar , Vianney Perchet

Consider a problem in which $n$ jobs that are classified into $k$ types arrive over time at their release times and are to be scheduled on a single machine so as to minimize the maximum flow time. The machine requires a setup taking $s$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers

We study the classic fully dynamic load balancing problem on unrelated machines where jobs arrive and depart over time and the goal is minimizing the maximum load, or more generally the l_p-norm of the load vector. Previous work either…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yossi Azar , Niv Buchbinder , Tomer Epshtein

We study the problem of improving the performance of online algorithms by incorporating machine-learned predictions. The goal is to design algorithms that are both consistent and robust, meaning that the algorithm performs well when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alexander Wei , Fred Zhang

Scheduling questions arise naturally in many different areas among which operating system design, compiling,... In real life systems, the characteristics of the jobs (such as release time and processing time) are usually unknown and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Julien Robert , Nicolas Schabanel

The field of algorithms with predictions incorporates machine learning advice in the design of online algorithms to improve real-world performance. A central consideration is the extent to which predictions can be trusted -- while existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Judy Hanwen Shen , Ellen Vitercik , Anders Wikum

Learning-augmented algorithms -- in which, traditional algorithms are augmented with machine-learned predictions -- have emerged as a framework to go beyond worst-case analysis. The overarching goal is to design algorithms that perform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sungjin Im , Ravi Kumar , Aditya Petety , Manish Purohit

We study the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs online over time on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In the traditional clairvoyant scheduling model, the scheduler learns about the processing time of a job at its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

Accurate uncertainty estimates are important in sequential model-based decision-making tasks such as Bayesian optimization. However, these estimates can be imperfect if the data violates assumptions made by the model (e.g., Gaussianity).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Shachi Deshpande , Charles Marx , Volodymyr Kuleshov
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