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We propose a new model for augmenting algorithms with predictions by requiring that they are formally learnable and instance robust. Learnability ensures that predictions can be efficiently constructed from a reasonable amount of past data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Thomas Lavastida , Benjamin Moseley , R. Ravi , Chenyang Xu

Cybersecurity is essential, and attacks are rapidly growing and getting more challenging to detect. The traditional Firewall and Intrusion Detection system, even though it is widely used and recommended but it fails to detect new attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Mustafa Sakhai , Maciej Wielgosz

Random search processes are instrumental in studying and understanding navigation properties of complex networks, food search strategies of animals, diffusion control of molecular processes in biological cells, and improving web search…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Igor Trpevski , Ljupco Kocarev

This paper presents efficient implementations of several algorithms for solving the minimum-cost network flow problem. Various practical heuristics and other important implementation aspects are also discussed. A novel result of this work…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Z. Király , P. Kovács

We consider the precedence-constrained scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time. For a single machine several $2$-approximation algorithms are known, which are based on linear programming and network flows. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Sven Jäger , Philipp Warode

This paper studies a variant of the minimum-cost flow problem in a graph with convex cost function where the demands at the vertices are functions depending on a one-dimensional parameter $\lambda$. We devise two algorithmic approaches for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Per Joachims , Max Klimm , Philipp Warode

There has been much research on network flows over time due to their important role in real world applications. This has led to many results, but the more challenging continuous time model still lacks some of the key concepts and techniques…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Ebrahim Nasrabadi , Ronald Koch

{\em Algorithms with predictions} incorporate machine learning predictions into algorithm design. A plethora of recent works incorporated predictions to improve on worst-case optimal bounds for online problems. In this paper, we initiate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Monika Henzinger , Barna Saha , Martin P. Seybold , Christopher Ye

This work extends the randomized shortest paths (RSP) model by investigating the net flow RSP and adding capacity constraints on edge flows. The standard RSP is a model of movement, or spread, through a network interpolating between a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Sylvain Courtain , Pierre Leleux , Ilkka Kivimaki , Guillaume Guex , Marco Saerens

Despite technological advancements, the significance of interdisciplinary subjects like complex networks has grown. Exploring communication within these networks is crucial, with traffic becoming a key concern due to the expanding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Seyed Hassan Yajadda , Farshad Safaei

We present an algorithm for safe robot navigation in complex dynamic environments using a variant of model predictive equilibrium point control. We use an optimization formulation to navigate robots gracefully in dynamic environments by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Senthil Hariharan Arul , Jong Jin Park , Dinesh Manocha

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, offering faster sampling and simpler training by learning continuous flows governed by ordinary differential equations. Despite growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mudit Gaur , Prashant Trivedi , Shuchin Aeron , Amrit Singh Bedi , George K. Atia , Vaneet Aggarwal

Network traffic analysis increasingly uses complex machine learning models as the internet consolidates and traffic gets more encrypted. However, over high-bandwidth networks, flows can easily arrive faster than model inference rates. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shinan Liu , Ted Shaowang , Gerry Wan , Jeewon Chae , Jonatas Marques , Sanjay Krishnan , Nick Feamster

We present formalisations of the correctness of executable algorithms to solve minimum-cost flow problems in Isabelle/HOL. Two of the algorithms are based on the technique of scaling, most notably Orlin's algorithm, which has the fastest…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mohammad Abdulaziz , Thomas Ammer

Simulation-free methods for training continuous-time generative models construct probability paths that go between noise distributions and individual data samples. Recent works, such as Flow Matching, derived paths that are optimal for each…

Optical flow estimation can be formulated as an end-to-end supervised learning problem, which yields estimates with a superior accuracy-runtime tradeoff compared to alternative methodology. In this paper, we make such networks estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Eddy Ilg , Özgün Çiçek , Silvio Galesso , Aaron Klein , Osama Makansi , Frank Hutter , Thomas Brox

Many applications generate data with an intrinsic network structure such as time series data, image data or social network data. The network Lasso (nLasso) has been proposed recently as a method for joint clustering and optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Alexander Jung

Flow matching trains a neural velocity field by regression against a target velocity associated with a prescribed probability path connecting a simple initial distribution to the data distribution. A central design choice is the path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shukai Du , Junzhe Zhang , Yiming Li

The extension of classical online algorithms when provided with predictions is a new and active research area. In this paper, we extend the primal-dual method for online algorithms in order to incorporate predictions that advise the online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Étienne Bamas , Andreas Maggiori , Ola Svensson

Nowadays, the volume of network traffic continues to grow, along with the frequency and sophistication of attacks. This scenario highlights the need for solutions capable of continuously adapting, since network behavior is dynamic and…