English
Related papers

Related papers: The Road Less Scheduled

200 papers

In this paper, we study scheduling of a queueing system with zero knowledge of instantaneous network conditions. We consider a one-hop single-server queueing system consisting of $K$ queues, each with time-varying and non-stationary arrival…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Jiatai Huang , Leana Golubchik , Longbo Huang

This paper introduces new parameter-free first-order methods for convex optimization problems in which the objective function exhibits H\"{o}lder smoothness. Inspired by the recently proposed distance-over-gradient (DOG) technique, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yijin Ren , Haifeng Xu , Qi Deng

We show that learning-rate schedules for large model training behave surprisingly similar to a performance bound from non-smooth convex optimization theory. We provide a bound for the constant schedule with linear cooldown; in particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Fabian Schaipp , Alexander Hägele , Adrien Taylor , Umut Simsekli , Francis Bach

We present a number of novel algorithms, based on mathematical optimization formulations, in order to solve a homogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem, while minimizing the total energy consumption. In particular, for a system with a…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Mason Thammawichai , Eric C. Kerrigan

We study how the learning rate affects the performance of a relaxed randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for solving $A x \approx b + \varepsilon$, where $A x =b$ is a consistent linear system and $\varepsilon$ has independent mean zero random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Nicholas F. Marshall , Oscar Mickelin

We introduce AlphaGrad, a memory-efficient, conditionally stateless optimizer addressing the memory overhead and hyperparameter complexity of adaptive methods like Adam. AlphaGrad enforces scale invariance via tensor-wise L2 gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Soham Sane

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

Due to the increasing complexity seen in both workloads and hardware resources in state-of-the-art embedded systems, developing efficient real-time schedulers and the corresponding schedulability tests becomes rather challenging. Although…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Zelun Kong , Yaswanth Yadlapalli , Soroush Bateni , Junfeng Guo , Cong Liu

Adam is a widely used optimization algorithm in deep learning, yet the specific class of objective functions where it exhibits inherent advantages remains underexplored. Unlike prior studies requiring external schedulers and $\beta_2$ near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhiwei Bai , Jiajie Zhao , Zhangchen Zhou , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang

This paper proposes Load-aware Tram-FL, an extension of Tram-FL that introduces a training scheduling mechanism to minimize total training time in decentralized federated learning by accounting for both computational and communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Haruki Kainuma , Takayuki Nishio

In many optimization domains, there are multiple different solvers that contribute to the overall state-of-the-art, each performing better on some, and worse on other types of problem instances. Meta-algorithmic approaches, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lennart Schäpermeier

We initiate a study of supervised learning from many independent sequences ("trajectories") of non-independent covariates, reflecting tasks in sequence modeling, control, and reinforcement learning. Conceptually, our multi-trajectory setup…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Stephen Tu , Roy Frostig , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

In many online learning problems the computational bottleneck for gradient-based methods is the projection operation. For this reason, in many problems the most efficient algorithms are based on the Frank-Wolfe method, which replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Elad Hazan , Edgar Minasyan

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have succeeded in several challenging domains. Classic Online RL job schedulers can learn efficient scheduling strategies but often takes thousands of timesteps to explore the environment and adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Vanamala Venkataswamy , Jake Grigsby , Andrew Grimshaw , Yanjun Qi

The learning rate (LR) schedule is one of the most important hyper-parameters needing careful tuning in training DNNs. However, it is also one of the least automated parts of machine learning systems and usually costs significant manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yuchen Jin , Tianyi Zhou , Liangyu Zhao , Yibo Zhu , Chuanxiong Guo , Marco Canini , Arvind Krishnamurthy

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

Atomistic foundation models constitute a paradigm shift in computational materials science by providing universal machine-learned interatomic potentials with broad transferability across chemical spaces. Although fine-tuning is essential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Xiaoqing Liu , Yangshuai Wang , Teng Zhao

Learning rate is one of the most important hyper-parameters that has a significant influence on neural network training. Learning rate schedules are widely used in real practice to adjust the learning rate according to pre-defined schedules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Hengyu Liu , Qiang Fu , Lun Du , Tiancheng Zhang , Ge Yu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Accelerated training algorithms, such as adaptive learning rates (or preconditioning) and various normalization methods, are widely used but not fully understood. When regularization is introduced, standard optimizers like adaptive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qiang Ye

We study the problem of planning collision-free paths for a group of homogeneous robots. We propose a novel approach for turning the paths that were planned egocentrically by the robots, e.g. without taking other robots' moves into account,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev