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In the matroid secretary problem we are given a stream of elements and asked to choose a set of elements that maximizes the total value of the set, subject to being an independent set of a matroid given in advance. The difficulty comes from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Michael Dinitz , Guy Kortsarz

Structured prediction problems are one of the fundamental tools in machine learning. In order to facilitate algorithm development for their numerical solution, we collect in one place a large number of datasets in easy to read formats for a…

In nearly every discipline, scientific computations are limited by the cost and speed of computation. For example, the best-known exact algorithms for the canonical Traveling Salesman Problem would take centuries to run on an instance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jeffery Li , Jayson Lynch , Liva Olina , Cecilia Chen , Andrew Lucas , Neil Thompson

A common problem in machine learning is to rank a set of n items based on pairwise comparisons. Here ranking refers to partitioning the items into sets of pre-specified sizes according to their scores, which includes identification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Reinhard Heckel , Max Simchowitz , Kannan Ramchandran , Martin J. Wainwright

For every p in (0,1/2), we give an explicit construction of binary codes of rate approaching "capacity" 1-H(p) that enable reliable communication in the presence of worst-case additive errors}, caused by a channel oblivious to the codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

Cardinality constrained bin packing or bin packing with cardinality constraints is a basic bin packing problem. In the online version with the parameter k \geq 2, items having sizes in (0,1] associated with them are presented one by one to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-24 János Balogh , József Békési , György Dósa , Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin

In the \textit{Matroid Secretary Problem} (MSP), the elements of the ground set of a Matroid are revealed on-line one by one, each together with its value. An algorithm for the MSP is \textit{Matroid-Unknown} if, at every stage of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Oded Lachish

The bounded delay buffer management problem, which was proposed by Kesselman et~al.\ (STOC 2001 and SIAM Journal on Computing 33(3), 2004), is an online problem focusing on buffer management of a switch supporting Quality of Service (QoS).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Koji M. Kobayashi

The problem of online matching with stochastic rewards is a generalization of the online bipartite matching problem where each edge has a probability of success. When a match is made it succeeds with the probability of the corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Vineet Goyal , Rajan Udwani

The weighted $k$-server problem is a natural generalization of the $k$-server problem in which the cost incurred in moving a server is the distance traveled times the weight of the server. Even after almost three decades since the seminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Nikhil Ayyadevara , Ashish Chiplunkar

In the (discrete) CNN problem, online requests appear as points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Each request must be served before the next one is revealed. We have a server that can serve a request simply by aligning either its $x$ or $y$ coordinate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-20 John Augustine , Nick Gravin

The weighted $k$-server problem is a natural generalization of the $k$-server problem where each server has a different weight. We consider the problem on uniform metrics, which corresponds to a natural generalization of paging. Our main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nikhil Bansal , Marek Elias , Grigorios Koumoutsos

Prophet inequalities are a useful tool for designing online allocation procedures and comparing their performance to the optimal offline allocation. In the basic setting of $k$-unit prophet inequalities, the well-known procedure of Alaei…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jiashuo Jiang , Will Ma , Jiawei Zhang

In this paper, we consider the online vertex-weighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival model. We consider the generalization of the RANKING algorithm for this problem introduced by Huang, Tang, Wu, and Zhang (TALG 2019), who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Billy Jin , David P. Williamson

Selection problems with costly information, dating back to Weitzman's Pandora's Box problem, have received much attention recently. We study the general model of Costly Information Combinatorial Selection (CICS) that was recently introduced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuchi Chawla , Dimitris Christou , Trung Dang

In the stochastic weighted matching problem, the goal is to find a large-weight matching of a graph when we are uncertain about the existence of its edges. In particular, each edge $e$ has a known weight $w_e$ but is realized independently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mahsa Derakhshan , Alireza Farhadi

Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Evangelos Markakis , Christodoulos Santorinaios , Guido Schäfer , Panagiotis Tsamopoulos , Artem Tsikiridis

Huang et al.~(STOC 2018) introduced the fully online matching problem, a generalization of the classic online bipartite matching problem in that it allows all vertices to arrive online and considers general graphs. They showed that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Zhiyi Huang , Binghui Peng , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Runzhou Tao , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in social network analysis. A common set of techniques for link prediction rely on similarity metrics which use the topology of the observed subnetwork to quantify the likelihood of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kai Zhou , Tomasz P. Michalak , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

{\em Algorithms with predictions} incorporate machine learning predictions into algorithm design. A plethora of recent works incorporated predictions to improve on worst-case optimal bounds for online problems. In this paper, we initiate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Monika Henzinger , Barna Saha , Martin P. Seybold , Christopher Ye