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We study the $b$-matching problem in bipartite graphs $G=(S,R,E)$. Each vertex $s\in S$ is a server with individual capacity $b_s$. The vertices $r\in R$ are requests that arrive online and must be assigned instantly to an eligible server.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Susanne Albers , Sebastian Schubert

We define an online learning and optimization problem with discrete and irreversible decisions contributing toward a coverage target. In each period, a decision-maker selects facilities to open, receives information on the success of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Alexandre Jacquillat , Michael Lingzhi Li

The 2D Online Bin Packing is a fundamental problem in Computer Science and the determination of its asymptotic competitive ratio has attracted great research attention. In a long series of papers, the lower bound of this ratio has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Xin Han , Francis Y. L. Chin , Hing-Fung Ting , Guochuan Zhang

Best Fit is a well known online algorithm for the bin packing problem, where a collection of one-dimensional items has to be packed into a minimum number of unit-sized bins. In a seminal work, Kenyon [SODA 1996] introduced the (asymptotic)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Arindam Khan , Leon Ladewig

Online bidding is a classical problem in online decision-making, with applications in resource allocation, hierarchical clustering, and the analysis of approximation algorithms. We study its randomized learning-augmented variant, where an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mathis Degryse , Imrane Saakour , Christoph Dürr , Spyros Angelopoulos

In the bin covering problem, the goal is to fill as many bins as possible up to a certain minimal level with a given set of items of different sizes. Online variants, in which the items arrive one after another and have to be packed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Carsten Fischer , Heiko Röglin

The capacity of line networks with buffer size constraints is an open, but practically important problem. In this paper, the upper bound on the achievable rate of a class of codes, called batched codes, is studied for line networks. Batched…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shenghao Yang , Jie Wang

In the online bin packing problem, items of sizes in (0,1] arrive online to be packed into bins of size 1. The goal is to minimize the number of used bins. In this paper, we present an online bin packing algorithm with asymptotic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Sandy Heydrich , Rob van Stee

In this paper, we consider the online version of the machine minimization problem (introduced by Chuzhoy et al., FOCS 2004), where the goal is to schedule a set of jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing lengths on a minimum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nikhil Devanur , Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

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

Solving chance-constrained stochastic optimal control problems is a significant challenge in control. This is because no analytical solutions exist for up to a handful of special cases. A common and computationally efficient approach for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Alexandre Capone , Tim Brüdigam , Sandra Hirche

This paper considers the recently popular beyond-worst-case algorithm analysis model which integrates machine-learned predictions with online algorithm design. We consider the online Steiner tree problem in this model for both directed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Chenyang Xu , Benjamin Moseley

In many high-dimensional problems, like sparse-PCA, planted clique, or clustering, the best known algorithms with polynomial time complexity fail to reach the statistical performance provably achievable by algorithms free of computational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Bertrand Even , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

With the developments in machine learning, there has been a surge in interest and results focused on algorithms utilizing predictions, not least in online algorithms where most new results incorporate the prediction aspect for concrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Magnus Berg , Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

We present an adaptive online gradient descent algorithm to solve online convex optimization problems with long-term constraints , which are constraints that need to be satisfied when accumulated over a finite number of rounds T , but can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-24 Rodolphe Jenatton , Jim Huang , Cédric Archambeau

We study a hypothesis testing problem in which data is compressed distributively and sent to a detector that seeks to decide between two possible distributions for the data. The aim is to characterize all achievable encoding rates and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Md. Saifur Rahman , Aaron B. Wagner

Resource allocation in distributed and networked systems such as the Cloud is becoming increasingly flexible, allowing these systems to dynamically adjust toward the workloads they serve, in a demand-aware manner. Online balanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

We study online competitive algorithms for the \emph{line chasing problem} in Euclidean spaces $\reals^d$, where the input consists of an initial point $P_0$ and a sequence of lines $X_1,X_2,...,X_m$, revealed one at a time. At each step…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Marcin Bienkowski , Jarosław Byrka , Marek Chrobak , Christian Coester , Łukasz Jeż , Elias Koutsoupias

The domain of online algorithms with predictions has been extensively studied for different applications such as scheduling, caching (paging), clustering, ski rental, etc. Recently, Bamas et al., aiming for an unified method, have provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Nguyen Kim Thang , Christoph Durr

The dispersion problem has been widely studied in computational geometry and facility location, and is closely related to the packing problem. The goal is to locate n points (e.g., facilities or persons) in a k-dimensional polytope, so that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jing Chen , Bo Li , Yingkai Li