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Clique clustering is the problem of partitioning the vertices of a graph into disjoint clusters, where each cluster forms a clique in the graph, while optimizing some objective function. In online clustering, the input graph is given one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Aleksander Fabijan , Bengt Nilsson

In the online sorting problem, we have an array $A$ of $n$ cells, and receive a stream of $n$ items $x_1,\dots,x_n\in [0,1]$. When an item arrives, we need to immediately and irrevocably place it into an empty cell. The goal is to minimize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yang Hu

This paper studies a long-term resource allocation problem over multiple periods where each period requires a multi-stage decision-making process. We formulate the problem as an online allocation problem in an episodic finite-horizon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Duksang Lee , William Overman , Dabeen Lee

Bilevel optimization problems, which are problems where two optimization problems are nested, have more and more applications in machine learning. In many practical cases, the upper and the lower objectives correspond to empirical risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-03 Mathieu Dagréou , Thomas Moreau , Samuel Vaiter , Pierre Ablin

Motivated by applications in digital health, this work studies the novel problem of online uniform sampling (OUS), where the goal is to distribute a sampling budget uniformly across unknown decision times. In the OUS problem, the algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xueqing Liu , Kyra Gan , Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh , Susan Murphy

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

We consider online allocation problems with concave revenue functions and resource constraints, which are central problems in revenue management and online advertising. In these settings, requests arrive sequentially during a finite horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Haihao Lu , Santiago Balseiro , Vahab Mirrokni

The problem of online scheduling of multi-server jobs is considered, where there are a total of $K$ servers, and each job requires concurrent service from multiple servers for it to be processed. Each job on its arrival reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rahul Vaze

In the online hitting set problem, sets arrive over time, and the algorithm has to maintain a subset of elements that hit all the sets seen so far. Alon, Awerbuch, Azar, Buchbinder, and Naor (SICOMP 2009) gave an algorithm with competitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sujoy Bhore , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar

Makespan minimization on identical parallel machines is a classical scheduling problem. We consider the online scenario where a sequence of $n$ jobs has to be scheduled non-preemptively on $m$ machines so as to minimize the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig

We introduce an online version of the multiselection problem, in which q selection queries are requested on an unsorted array of n elements. We provide the first online algorithm that is 1-competitive with Kaligosi et al. [ICALP 2005] in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jérémy Barbay , Ankur Gupta , S. Srinivasa Rao , Jonathan Sorenson

We study two-stage bipartite matching, in which the edges of a bipartite graph on vertices $(B_1 \cup B_2, I)$ are revealed in two batches. In stage one, a matching must be selected from among revealed edges $E \subseteq B_1 \times I$. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi , Anders Wikum

We consider Online Convex Optimization (OCO) in the setting where the costs are $m$-strongly convex and the online learner pays a switching cost for changing decisions between rounds. We show that the recently proposed Online Balanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Gautam Goel , Adam Wierman

Electricity cost is a dominant and rapidly growing expense in data centers. Unfortunately, much of the consumed energy is wasted because servers are idle for extended periods of time. We study a capacity management problem that dynamically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Susanne Albers , Jens Quedenfeld

In the reordering buffer management problem, a sequence of requests must be executed by a service station, where a cost occurs for each pair of consecutive requests with different attributes. A reordering buffer management algorithm aims to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Gözde Filiz , M. Oğuzhan Külekci

We consider the problem of estimating the value of max cut in a graph in the streaming model of computation. At one extreme, there is a trivial $2$-approximation for this problem that uses only $O(\log n)$ space, namely, count the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Madhu Sudan

How to efficiently perform network tomography is a fundamental problem in network management and monitoring. A network tomography task usually consists of applying multiple probing experiments, e.g., across different paths or via different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xuchuang Wang , Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Matheus Guedes de Andrade , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , John C. S. Lui , Ting He , Don Towsley

This paper optimizes the configuration of large-scale data centers toward cost-effective, reliable and sustainable cloud supply chains. The problem involves placing incoming racks of servers within a data center to maximize demand coverage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Saumil Baxi , Kayla Cummings , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sean Lo , Rob McDonald , Konstantina Mellou , Ishai Menache , Marco Molinaro

The blessing of ubiquitous data also comes with a curse: the communication, storage, and labeling of massive, mostly redundant datasets. We seek to solve this problem at its core, collecting only valuable data and throwing out the rest via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Mariel Werner , Anastasios Angelopoulos , Stephen Bates , Michael I. Jordan

This paper studies a fundamental algorithmic problem related to the design of demand-aware networks: networks whose topologies adjust toward the traffic patterns they serve, in an online manner. The goal is to strike a tradeoff between the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Chen Avin , Kaushik Mondal , Stefan Schmid