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This paper combines two key ingredients for online algorithms - competitive analysis (e.g. the competitive ratio) and advice complexity (e.g. the number of advice bits needed to improve online decisions) - in the context of a simple online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Martin Aleksandrov , Toby Walsh

We study online capacitated resource allocation, a natural generalization of online stochastic max-weight bipartite matching. This problem is motivated by ride-sharing and Internet advertising applications, where online arrivals may have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Alexander Braun , Thomas Kesselheim , Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi

We study the problem of vertex-weighted online bipartite matching with stochastic rewards where matches may fail with some known probability and the decision maker has to adapt to the sequential realization of these outcomes. Recent works…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Rajan Udwani

We revisit the online bipartite matching problem on $d$-regular graphs, for which Cohen and Wajc (SODA 2018) proposed an algorithm with a competitive ratio of $1-2\sqrt{H_d/d} = 1-O(\sqrt{(\log d)/d})$ and showed that it is asymptotically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yilong Feng , Haolong Li , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

Two related online problems: knapsack and truthful bipartite matching are considered. For these two problems, the common theme is how to `match' an arriving left vertex in an online fashion with any of the available right vertices, if at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Rahul Vaze

In this paper we introduce the \emph{semi-online} model that generalizes the classical online computational model. The semi-online model postulates that the unknown future has a predictable part and an adversarial part; these parts can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Ravi Kumar , Manish Purohit , Aaron Schild , Zoya Svitkina , Erik Vee

In the online metric bipartite matching problem, we are given a set $S$ of server locations in a metric space. Requests arrive one at a time, and on its arrival, we need to immediately and irrevocably match it to a server at a cost which is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sharath Raghvendra

While randomized online algorithms have access to a sequence of uniform random bits, deterministic online algorithms with advice have access to a sequence of advice bits, i.e., bits that are set by an all powerful oracle prior to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Christoph Dürr , Christian Konrad , Marc Renault

The online stochastic matching problem was introduced by [FMMM09], together with the $(1-\frac1e)$-competitive Suggested Matching algorithm. In the most general edge-weighted setting, this ratio has not been improved for more than one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuyi Yan

We propose a formal graph-theoretic model for studying the problem of matching rides online in a ride-sharing platform. Unlike most of the literature on online matching, our model, that we call {\em Online Windowed Non-Bipartite Matching}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Chinmoy Dutta , Chris Sholley

Online bipartite matching is a fundamental problem in online algorithms. The goal is to match two sets of vertices to maximize the sum of the edge weights, where for one set of vertices, each vertex and its corresponding edge weights appear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hang Hu , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Zhaozhuo Xu , Junze Yin , Danyang Zhuo

In the online hypergraph matching problem, hyperedges of size $k$ over a common ground set arrive online in adversarial order. The goal is to obtain a maximum matching (disjoint set of hyperedges). A na\"ive greedy algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Thorben Tröbst , Rajan Udwani

We study the edge-weighted online stochastic matching problem. Since Feldman, Mehta, Mirrokni, and Muthukrishnan proposed the $(1-\frac1e)$-competitive Suggested Matching algorithm, there has been no improvement for the general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Shuyi Yan

We study two-stage bipartite matching, in which the edges of a bipartite graph on vertices $(B_1 \cup B_2, I)$ are revealed in two batches. In stage one, a matching must be selected from among revealed edges $E \subseteq B_1 \times I$. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi , Anders Wikum

The rich literature on online Bayesian selection problems has long focused on so-called prophet inequalities, which compare the gain of an online algorithm to that of a "prophet" who knows the future. An equally-natural, though…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Christos Papadimitriou , Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi , David Wajc

Ranking and Balance are arguably the two most important algorithms in the online matching literature. They achieve the same optimal competitive ratio of $1-1/e$ for the integral version and fractional version of online bipartite matching by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jingxun Liang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yixuan Even Xu , Yuhao Zhang , Renfei Zhou

We revisit the fully online matching model (Huang et al., J.\ ACM, 2020), an extension of the classic online matching model due to Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990), which has recently received a lot of attention (Huang et al., SODA…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Alexander Eckl , Anja Kirschbaum , Marilena Leichter , Kevin Schewior

In this paper, we explicitly study the online vertex cover problem, which is a natural generalization of the well-studied ski-rental problem. In the online vertex cover problem, we are required to maintain a monotone vertex cover in a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Yajun Wang , Sam Chiu-wai Wong

We study the online list update problem under the advice model of computation. Under this model, an online algorithm receives partial information about the unknown parts of the input in the form of some bits of advice generated by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Joan Boyar , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen , Alejandro López-Ortiz

The challenge in the widely applicable online matching problem lies in making irrevocable assignments while there is uncertainty about future inputs. Most theoretically-grounded policies are myopic or greedy in nature. In real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mohammad Ali Alomrani , Reza Moravej , Elias B. Khalil