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Learning-augmented algorithms -- in which, traditional algorithms are augmented with machine-learned predictions -- have emerged as a framework to go beyond worst-case analysis. The overarching goal is to design algorithms that perform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sungjin Im , Ravi Kumar , Aditya Petety , Manish Purohit

We study the online unweighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival order model, with $n$ offline and $n$ online vertices, in the learning-augmented setting: The algorithm is provided with untrusted predictions of the types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kunanon Burathep , Thomas Erlebach , William K. Moses

We study the online problem of reading articles that are listed in an aggregated form in a dynamic stream, e.g., in news feeds, as abbreviated social media posts, or in the daily update of new articles on arXiv. In such a context, the brief…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Andreas Karrenbauer , Elizaveta Kovalevskaya

The online algorithm design was proposed to handle the caching problem when the future information is unknown. And currently, it draws more and more attentions from the researchers from the areas of microgrid, where the production of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Ying Zhang

We consider a general framework of online learning with expert advice where regret is defined with respect to sequences of experts accepted by a weighted automaton. Our framework covers several problems previously studied, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Mehryar Mohri , Scott Yang

We consider Online Facility Location in the framework of learning-augmented online algorithms. In Online Facility Location (OFL), demands arrive one-by-one in a metric space and must be (irrevocably) assigned to an open facility upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Themis Gouleakis , Nikolas Patris , Thanos Tolias

We study online algorithms with predictions using distributional advice, a type of prediction that arises when leveraging expert knowledge or historical data. To demonstrate the usefulness and versatility of this framework, we focus on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Clément L. Canonne , Kenny Chen , Julián Mestre

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

We consider the online version of the piercing set problem, where geometric objects arrive one by one, and the online algorithm must maintain a valid piercing set for the already arrived objects by making irrevocable decisions. It is easy…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Minati De , Saksham Jain , Sarat Varma Kallepalli , Satyam Singh

We propose a new approach to competitive analysis in online scheduling by introducing the novel concept of competitive-ratio approximation schemes. Such a scheme algorithmically constructs an online algorithm with a competitive ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Elisabeth Günther , Olaf Maurer , Nicole Megow , Andreas Wiese

By exploiting the duality between boosting and online learning, we present a boosting framework which proves to be extremely powerful thanks to employing the vast knowledge available in the online learning area. Using this framework, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tofigh Naghibi , Beat Pfister

The modern network aims to prioritize critical traffic over non-critical traffic and effectively manage traffic flow. This necessitates proper buffer management to prevent the loss of crucial traffic while minimizing the impact on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Ya-Chun Liang , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

We revisit the online Unit Clustering and Unit Covering problems in higher dimensions: Given a set of $n$ points in a metric space, that arrive one by one, Unit Clustering asks to partition the points into the minimum number of clusters…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

We study the relationship between the competitive ratio and the tail distribution of randomized online minimization problems. To this end, we define a broad class of online problems that includes some of the well-studied problems like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Dennis Komm , Rastislav Královič , Richard Královič , Tobias Mömke

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

In the online (time-series) search problem, a player is presented with a sequence of prices which are revealed in an online manner. In the standard definition of the problem, for each revealed price, the player must decide irrevocably…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Dehou Zhang

$ $The classical theory of statistical estimation aims to estimate a parameter of interest under data generated from a fixed design ("offline estimation"), while the contemporary theory of online learning provides algorithms for estimation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-17 Dylan J. Foster , Yanjun Han , Jian Qian , Alexander Rakhlin

Online allocation is a broad class of problems where items arriving online have to be allocated to agents who have a fixed utility/cost for each assigned item so to maximize/minimize some objective. This framework captures a broad range of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Debmalya Panigrahi

We study the online metric matching problem. There are $m$ servers and $n$ requests located in a metric space, where all servers are available upfront and requests arrive one at a time. Upon the arrival of a new request, it needs to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mingwei Yang , Sophie H. Yu

We study the problem of improving the performance of online algorithms by incorporating machine-learned predictions. The goal is to design algorithms that are both consistent and robust, meaning that the algorithm performs well when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alexander Wei , Fred Zhang