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Datacenter networks commonly facilitate the transmission of data in distributed computing frameworks through coflows, which are collections of parallel flows associated with a common task. Most of the existing research has concentrated on…
We obtain a 1.5-approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem (UFL), which improves on the previously best known 1.52-approximation algorithm by Mahdian, Ye and Zhang. Note, that the approximability lower…
We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by machine learning and data mining applications where the goal is…
The approximation ratio of the longest processing time (LPT) scheduling algorithm has been studied in several papers. While the tight approximation ratio is known for the case when all processors are identical, the ratio is not yet known…
A coflow is a collection of parallel flows belonging to the same job. It has the all-or-nothing property: a coflow is not complete until the completion of all its constituent flows. In this paper, we focus on optimizing \emph{coflow-level…
We study flow scheduling under node capacity constraints. We are given capacitated nodes and an online sequence of jobs, each with a release time and a demand to be routed between two nodes. A schedule specifies which jobs are routed in…
Weighted flow time is a fundamental and very well-studied objective function in scheduling. In this paper, we study the setting of a single machine with preemptions. The input consists of a set of jobs, characterized by their processing…
In the problem called single resource constraint scheduling, we are given $m$ identical machines and a set of jobs, each needing one machine to be processed as well as a share of a limited renewable resource $R$. A schedule of these jobs is…
We consider the classic Correlation Clustering problem: Given a complete graph where edges are labelled either $+$ or $-$, the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes the number of the \pedges across parts plus the number…
Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…
The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…
We consider routing in reconfigurable networks, which is also known as coflow scheduling in the literature. The algorithmic literature generally (perhaps implicitly) assumes that the amount of data to be transferred is large. Thus the…
Many problems in machine learning can be solved by rounding the solution of an appropriate linear program (LP). This paper shows that we can recover solutions of comparable quality by rounding an approximate LP solution instead of the ex-…
We present improved approximation algorithms in stochastic optimization. We prove that the multi-stage stochastic versions of covering integer programs (such as set cover and vertex cover) admit essentially the same approximation algorithms…
We consider single-machine scheduling problems that are natural generalizations or variations of the min-sum set cover problem and the min-sum vertex cover problem. For each of these problems, we give new approximation algorithms. Some of…
Correlation Clustering is a classic clustering objective arising in numerous machine learning and data mining applications. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the goal is to partition the vertex set into clusters so as to minimize the number of edges…
In the classic Correlation Clustering problem introduced by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla (FOCS 2002), the input is a complete graph where edges are labeled either $+$ or $-$, and the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes…
In this paper, we present a new iterative rounding framework for many clustering problems. Using this, we obtain an $(\alpha_1 + \epsilon \leq 7.081 + \epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for $k$-median with outliers, greatly improving upon…
This paper addresses resource allocation for entanglement distribution in multi-channel quantum networks. A system model is proposed that integrates a multi-channel quantum network architecture with heterogeneous link characteristics and…
Building on previous research on frequency allocation optimization for superconducting circuit quantum processors, this work incorporates several new techniques to improve overall solution quality. New features include tightening…