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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 present a unified framework for designing and analyzing algorithms for online budgeted allocation problems (including online matching) and their generalization, the Online Generalized Assignment Problem (OnGAP). These problems have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Rad Niazadeh , Robert D. Kleinberg

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

The online matching problem was introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani (STOC 1990) on bipartite graphs with vertex arrivals. It is well-known that the optimal competitive ratio is $1-1/e$ for both integral and fractional versions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sander Borst , Danish Kashaev , Zhuan Khye Koh

Recent advances in machine learning have spurred significant interest in learning-augmented algorithms, particularly for online optimization. A growing body of work has studied online bidding in this framework, aiming to characterize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Changyeol Lee , Dahoon Lee , Jongseo Lee , Yongho Shin , Changki Yun

Display Ads and the generalized assignment problem are two well-studied online packing problems with important applications in ad allocation and other areas. In both problems, ad impressions arrive online and have to be allocated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fabian Spaeh , Alina Ene

Interval-constrained online bipartite matching problem frequently occurs in medical appointment scheduling: Unit-time jobs representing patients arrive online and are assigned to a time slot within their given feasible time interval. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Andreas Abels , Mariia Anapolska , Christina Büsing

Matching is one of the most fundamental and broadly applicable problems across many domains. In these diverse real-world applications, there is often a degree of uncertainty in the input which has led to the study of stochastic matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Brian Brubach , Nathaniel Grammel , Will Ma , Calum MacRury , Aravind Srinivasan

We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, the relation between v and previously arrived items is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Claire Mathieu , Ocan Sankur , Warren Schudy

This paper considers a variant of the online paging problem, where the online algorithm has access to multiple predictors, each producing a sequence of predictions for the page arrival times. The predictors may have occasional prediction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Yangguang Shi

We consider the allocation of limited resources to heterogeneous customers who arrive in an online fashion. We would like to allocate the resources "fairly", so that no group of customers is marginalized in terms of their overall service…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Will Ma , Pan Xu , Yifan Xu

A major technique in learning-augmented online algorithms is combining multiple algorithms or predictors. Since the performance of each predictor may vary over time, it is desirable to use not the single best predictor as a benchmark, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Antonios Antoniadis , Christian Coester , Marek Eliáš , Adam Polak , Bertrand Simon

We study the problem of vertex-weighted online bipartite matching with stochastic rewards where matches may fail with some known probability and the decision maker has to adapt to the sequential realization of these outcomes. Recent works…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Rajan Udwani

We study the online stochastic bipartite matching problem, in a form motivated by display ad allocation on the Internet. In the online, but adversarial case, the celebrated result of Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani gives an approximation ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Jon Feldman , Aranyak Mehta , Vahab Mirrokni , S. Muthukrishnan

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

We revisit the online dynamic acknowledgment problem. In the problem, a sequence of requests arrive over time to be acknowledged, and all outstanding requests can be satisfied simultaneously by one acknowledgement. The goal of the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

In the classic online graph balancing problem, edges arrive sequentially and must be oriented immediately upon arrival, to minimize the maximum in-degree. For adversarial arrivals, the natural greedy algorithm is $O(\log n)$-competitive,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nikhil Bansal , Milind Prabhu , Sahil Singla , Siddharth M. Sundaram

The Adwords and Online Bipartite Matching problems have enjoyed a renewed attention over the past decade due to their connection to Internet advertising. Our community has contributed, among other things, new models (notably stochastic) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Yajun Wang , Sam Chiu-wai Wong

Bipartite networks manifest as a stream of edges that represent transactions, e.g., purchases by retail customers. Many machine learning applications employ neighborhood-based measures to characterize the similarity among the nodes, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Liangzhen Xia

We present statistical methods for big data arising from online analytical processing, where large amounts of data arrive in streams and require fast analysis without storage/access to the historical data. In particular, we develop…

Computation · Statistics 2018-06-13 Elizabeth D. Schifano , Jing Wu , Chun Wang , Jun Yan , Ming-Hui Chen