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We consider an online resource allocation problem where multiple resources, each with an individual initial capacity, are available to serve random requests arriving sequentially over multiple discrete time periods. At each time period, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jiashuo Jiang , Jiawei Zhang

In the past few years, we have envisioned an increasing number of businesses start driving by big data analytics, such as Amazon recommendations and Google Advertisements. At the back-end side, the businesses are powered by big data…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ying Mao , Victoria Green , Jiayin Wang , Haoyi Xiong , Zhishan Guo

We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

In the Contention Resolution problem $n$ parties each wish to have exclusive use of a shared resource for one unit of time. The problem has been studied since the early 1970s, under a variety of assumptions on feedback given to the parties,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zixi Cai , Kuowen Chen , Shengquan Du , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Seth Pettie , Ben Plosk

We study the admission control problem in general networks. Communication requests arrive over time, and the online algorithm accepts or rejects each request while maintaining the capacity limitations of the network. The admission control…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Noga Alon , Yossi Azar , Shai Gutner

This paper presents competitive algorithms for a novel class of online optimization problems with memory. We consider a setting where the learner seeks to minimize the sum of a hitting cost and a switching cost that depends on the previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Guanya Shi , Yiheng Lin , Soon-Jo Chung , Yisong Yue , Adam Wierman

Recently, several universal methods have been proposed for online convex optimization which can handle convex, strongly convex and exponentially concave cost functions simultaneously. However, most of these algorithms have been designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arnold Salas

Online resource allocation under budget constraints critically depends on proper modeling of user arrival dynamics. Classical approaches employ stochastic user arrival models to derive near-optimal solutions through fractional matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Bin Li , Diwei Liu , Zehong Hu , Jia Jia

In the ordinal Matroid Secretary Problem (MSP), elements from a weighted matroid are presented in random order to an algorithm that must incrementally select a large weight independent set. However, the algorithm can only compare pairs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-07 José A. Soto , Abner Turkieltaub , Victor Verdugo

We study Online Linear Programming (OLP) with batching. The planning horizon is cut into $K$ batches, and the decisions on customers arriving within a batch can be delayed to the end of their associated batch. Compared with OLP without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Haoran Xu , Peter W. Glynn , Yinyu Ye

We study the online learning problem of a bidder who participates in repeated auctions. With the goal of maximizing his T-period payoff, the bidder determines the optimal allocation of his budget among his bids for $K$ goods at each period.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Sevi Baltaoglu , Lang Tong , Qing Zhao

We study a general model on reusable resource allocation under model uncertainty. A heterogeneous population of customers arrive at the decision maker's (DM's) platform sequentially. Upon observing a customer's type, the DM selects an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

Optimal contribution selection (OCS) is a selective breeding method that manages the conversion of genetic variation into genetic gain to facilitate short-term competitiveness and long-term sustainability in breeding programmes. Traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Josh Fogg , Jaime Ortiz , Ivan Pocrnić , J. A. Julian Hall , Gregor Gorjanc

We propose a novel approach for analyzing dynamic regret of first-order constrained online convex optimization algorithms for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth objectives. Crucially, we provide a general analysis that is applicable to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Fabian Jakob , Andrea Iannelli

Recommender systems (RSs) are software tools and algorithms developed to alleviate the problem of information overload, which makes it difficult for a user to make right decisions. Two main paradigms toward the recommendation problem are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

A well-studied generalization of the standard online convex optimization (OCO) framework is constrained online convex optimization (COCO). In COCO, on every round, a convex cost function and a convex constraint function are revealed to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Abhishek Sinha , Rahul Vaze

In many on-demand online platforms such as ride-sharing, grocery delivery, or shipping, some arriving agents are patient and willing to wait a short amount of time for the resource or service as long as there is an upfront guarantee that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Negin Golrezaei , Evan Yao

In this paper, we consider groups of agents in a network that select actions in order to satisfy a set of constraints that vary arbitrarily over time and minimize a time-varying function of which they have only local observations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Santiago Paternain , Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Data replication is a common method used to improve the performance of data access in distributed database systems. In this paper, we present an object replication algorithm in distributed database systems (ORAD). We optimize the created…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Arash Ghorbannia Delavar , Golnoosh Keshani

We study an online caching problem in which requests can be served by a local cache to avoid retrieval costs from a remote server. The cache can update its state after a batch of requests and store an arbitrarily small fraction of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 T. Si Salem , G. Neglia , S. Ioannidis