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Online Resource Allocation problem is a central problem in many areas of Computer Science, Operations Research, and Economics. In this problem, we sequentially receive $n$ stochastic requests for $m$ kinds of shared resources, where each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Rohan Ghuge , Sahil Singla , Yifan Wang

In this paper, we consider an online resource allocation problem where a decision maker accepts or rejects incoming customer requests irrevocably in order to maximize expected reward given limited resources. At each time, a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Yinyu Ye

Online Contention Resolution Schemes (OCRS's) represent a modern tool for selecting a subset of elements, subject to resource constraints, when the elements are presented to the algorithm sequentially. OCRS's have led to some of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Calum MacRury , Will Ma , Nathaniel Grammel

We consider a practically motivated variant of the canonical online fair allocation problem: a decision-maker has a budget of perishable resources to allocate over a fixed number of rounds. Each round sees a random number of arrivals, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Chamsi Hssaine , Sean R. Sinclair

We study a multi-objective model on the allocation of reusable resources under model uncertainty. Heterogeneous customers arrive sequentially according to a latent stochastic process, request for certain amounts of resources, and occupy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

We study the $K$-armed contextual dueling bandit problem, a sequential decision making setting in which the learner uses contextual information to make two decisions, but only observes \emph{preference-based feedback} suggesting that one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Aadirupa Saha , Akshay Krishnamurthy

In the online non-metric variant of the facility location problem, there is a given graph consisting of a set $F$ of facilities (each with a certain opening cost), a set $C$ of potential clients, and weighted connections between them. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Marcin Bienkowski , Björn Feldkord , Paweł Schmidt

Thick two-sided matching platforms, such as the room-rental market, face the challenge of showing relevant objects to users to reduce search costs. Many platforms use ranking algorithms to determine the order in which alternatives are shown…

General Economics · Economics 2023-08-29 Caterina Calsamiglia , Laura Doval , Alejandro Robinson-Cortés , Matthew Shum

We consider the problem of service hosting where an application provider can dynamically rent edge computing resources and serve user requests from the edge to deliver a better quality of service. A key novelty of this work is that we allow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 V S Ch Lakshmi Narayana , Mohit Agarwala , R Sri Prakash , Nikhil Karamchandani , Sharayu Moharir

We introduce and study a general version of the fractional online knapsack problem with multiple knapsacks, heterogeneous constraints on which items can be assigned to which knapsack, and rate-limiting constraints on the assignment of items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Sun , Ali Zeynali , Tongxin Li , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Danny H. K. Tsang

We study online task assignment problem with reusable resources, motivated by practical applications such as ridesharing, crowdsourcing and job hiring. In the problem, we are given a set of offline vertices (agents), and, at each time, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Hanna Sumita , Shinji Ito , Kei Takemura , Daisuke Hatano , Takuro Fukunaga , Naonori Kakimura , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

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

The fractional knapsack problem is one of the classical problems in combinatorial optimization, which is well understood in the offline setting. However, the corresponding online setting has been handled only briefly in the theoretical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Jeff Giliberti , Andreas Karrenbauer

We study a competitive online optimization problem with multiple inventories. In the problem, an online decision maker seeks to optimize the allocation of multiple capacity-limited inventories over a slotted horizon, while the allocation…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Qiulin Lin , Yanfang Mo , Junyan Su , Minghua Chen

We initiate the study of two-sided online resource allocation with costly cancellations. Our focus is on edge-weighted online bipartite matching (and several of its extensions), where nodes arrive online and request offline resources. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Farbod Ekbatani , Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh

Bipartite matching markets pair agents on one side of a market with agents, items, or contracts on the opposing side. Prior work addresses online bipartite matching markets, where agents arrive over time and are dynamically matched to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-13 John P Dickerson , Karthik A Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

This paper studies online optimization under inventory (budget) constraints. While online optimization is a well-studied topic, versions with inventory constraints have proven difficult. We consider a formulation of inventory-constrained…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qiulin Lin , Hanling Yi , John Pang , Minghua Chen , Adam Wierman , Michael Honig , Yuanzhang Xiao

We exhibit an $O((\log k)^6)$-competitive randomized algorithm for the $k$-server problem on any metric space. It is shown that a potential-based algorithm for the fractional $k$-server problem on hierarchically separated trees (HSTs) with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-30 James R. Lee

We consider the problem of assigning or allocating resources to a set of jobs. We consider the case when the resources are fungible, that is, the job can be done with any mix of the resources, but with different efficiencies. In our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Akshay Agrawal , Stephen Boyd , Deepak Narayanan , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Matei Zaharia

We study the design of risk-sensitive online algorithms, in which risk measures are used in the competitive analysis of randomized online algorithms. We introduce the CVaR$_\delta$-competitive ratio ($\delta$-CR) using the conditional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Steven Low , Adam Wierman