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Distributed resource allocation (DRA) is fundamental to modern networked systems, spanning applications from economic dispatch in smart grids to CPU scheduling in data centers. Conventional DRA approaches require reliable communication, yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Sergio Pequito

Online linear programming (OLP) has gained significant attention from both researchers and practitioners due to its extensive applications, such as online auction, network revenue management, order fulfillment and advertising. Existing OLP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Guokai Li , Zizhuo Wang , Jingwei Zhang

We study nonstationary Online Linear Programming (OLP), where $n$ orders arrive sequentially with reward-resource consumption pairs that form a sequence of independent, but not necessarily identically distributed, random vectors. At the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoran Xu , Owen Shen , Peter Glynn , Yinyu Ye , Patrick Jaillet

When learning policies for real-world domains, two important questions arise: (i) how to efficiently use pre-collected off-policy, non-optimal behavior data; and (ii) how to mediate among different competing objectives and constraints. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Hoang M. Le , Cameron Voloshin , Yisong Yue

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Online resource allocation problems are central challenges in economics and computer science, modeling situations in which $n$ items arriving one at a time must each be immediately allocated among $m$ agents. In such problems, our objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kalen Patton

In this paper, we study a general online linear programming problem whose formulation encompasses many practical dynamic resource allocation problems, including internet advertising display applications, revenue management, various routing,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Patrick Jaillet , Xin Lu

This paper considers a class of real-time stochastic optimization problems dependent on an unknown probability distribution. In the considered scenario, data is streaming frequently while trying to reach a decision. Thus, we aim to devise a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dan Li , Sonia Martinez

We study an online mixed discrete and continuous optimization problem where a decision maker interacts with an unknown environment for a number of $T$ rounds. At each round, the decision maker needs to first jointly choose a discrete and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Lintao Ye , Ming Chi , Zhi-Wei Liu , Xiaoling Wang , Vijay Gupta

In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to describe how search service providers charge client companies based on users' queries for the keywords related to these companies' ads by using certain advertisement assignment strategies. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Bo Tan , R. Srikant

We study online convex optimization with constraints consisting of multiple functional constraints and a relatively simple constraint set, such as a Euclidean ball. As enforcing the constraints at each time step through projections is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Shuang Qiu , Xiaohan Wei , Mladen Kolar

This paper investigates a hybrid learning framework for reinforcement learning (RL) in which the agent can leverage both an offline dataset and online interactions to learn the optimal policy. We present a unified algorithm and analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ruiquan Huang , Donghao Li , Chengshuai Shi , Cong Shen , Jing Yang

Online convex optimization (OCO) with time-varying constraints is a critical framework for sequential decision-making in dynamic networked systems, where learners must minimize cumulative loss while satisfying regions of feasibility that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiufeng Liu , Qian Chen , Zhijin Wang , Ruyu Liu

Budget management strategies in repeated auctions have received growing attention in online advertising markets. However, previous work on budget management in online bidding mainly focused on second-price auctions. The rapid shift from…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Qian Wang , Zongjun Yang , Xiaotie Deng , Yuqing Kong

Machine Learning (ML) models are increasingly used to support or substitute decision making. In applications where skilled experts are a limited resource, it is crucial to reduce their burden and automate decisions when the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mirabel Reid , Tom Sühr , Claire Vernade , Samira Samadi

We give a very general and simple framework to incorporate predictions on requests for online covering problems in a rigorous and black-box manner. Our framework turns any online algorithm with competitive ratio $\rho(k, \cdot)$ depending…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Laura Sanita , Moritz Venzin

We study the problems of offline and online contextual optimization with feedback information, where instead of observing the loss, we observe, after-the-fact, the optimal action an oracle with full knowledge of the objective function would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Omar Besbes , Yuri Fonseca , Ilan Lobel

Optimizing the advertiser's cumulative value of winning impressions under budget constraints poses a complex challenge in online advertising, under the paradigm of AI-Generated Bidding (AIGB). Advertisers often have personalized objectives…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mingxuan Song , Yusen Huo , Bohan Zhou , Shenglin Yin , Zhen Xiao , Jieyi Long , Zhilin Zhang , Chuan Yu

While ERM suffices to attain near-optimal generalization error in the stochastic learning setting, this is not known to be the case in the online learning setting, where algorithms for general concept classes rely on computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Angelos Assos , Idan Attias , Yuval Dagan , Constantinos Daskalakis , Maxwell Fishelson

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved state-of-the-art results in domains such as robotics and games. We build on this previous work by applying RL algorithms to a selection of canonical online stochastic optimization problems with a…