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We design algorithms for computing approximately revenue-maximizing {\em sequential posted-pricing mechanisms (SPM)} in $K$-unit auctions, in a standard Bayesian model. A seller has $K$ copies of an item to sell, and there are $n$ buyers,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Eyal Even-Dar , Sudipto Guha , Yishay Mansour , S. Muthukrishnan

We study the $k$-median with discounts problem, wherein we are given clients with non-negative discounts and seek to open at most $k$ facilities. The goal is to minimize the sum of distances from each client to its nearest open facility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Shichuan Deng

The fair $k$-median problem is one of the important clustering problems. The current best approximation ratio is 4.675 for this problem with 1-fair violation, which was proposed by Bercea et al. [APPROX-RANDOM'2019]. As far as we know,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Di Wu , Qilong Feng , Jianxin Wang

Consider an online facility assignment problem where a set of facilities $F = \{ f_1, f_2, f_3, \cdots, f_{|F|} \}$ of equal capacity $l$ is situated on a metric space and customers arrive one by one in an online manner on that space. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Saad Al Muttakee , Abu Reyan Ahmed , Md. Saidur Rahman

In this paper, we consider the fault-tolerant $k$-median problem and give the \emph{first} constant factor approximation algorithm for it. In the fault-tolerant generalization of classical $k$-median problem, each client $j$ needs to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Mohammadtaghi Hajiaghayi , Wei Hu , Jian Li , Shi Li , Barna Saha

In this work, we study the socially fair $k$-median/$k$-means problem. We are given a set of points $P$ in a metric space $\mathcal{X}$ with a distance function $d(.,.)$. There are $\ell$ groups: $P_1,\dotsc,P_{\ell} \subseteq P$. We are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dishant Goyal , Ragesh Jaiswal

We initiate the study of online problems with set delay, where the delay cost at any given time is an arbitrary function of the set of pending requests. In particular, we study the online min-cost perfect matching with set delay (MPMD-Set)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lindsey Deryckere , Seeun William Umboh

We propose a new approach to competitive analysis in online scheduling by introducing the novel concept of competitive-ratio approximation schemes. Such a scheme algorithmically constructs an online algorithm with a competitive ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Elisabeth Günther , Olaf Maurer , Nicole Megow , Andreas Wiese

We study the online bin packing problem under two stochastic settings. In the bin packing problem, we are given n items with sizes in (0,1] and the goal is to pack them into the minimum number of unit-sized bins. First, we study bin packing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nikhil Ayyadevara , Rajni Dabas , Arindam Khan , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We study the $k$-server problem in the resource augmentation setting i.e., when the performance of the online algorithm with $k$ servers is compared to the offline optimal solution with $h \leq k$ servers. The problem is very poorly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Nikhil Bansal , Marek Eliáš , Łukasz Jeż , Grigorios Koumoutsos

Several well-studied online resource allocation problems can be formulated in terms of infinite, increasing sequences of positive values, in which each element is associated with a corresponding allocation value. Examples include problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Spyros Angelopoulos , Diogo Arsénio , Shahin Kamali

We consider the {\em mobile facility location} (\mfl) problem. We are given a set of facilities and clients located in a common metric space. The goal is to move each facility from its initial location to a destination and assign each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Sara Ahmadian , Zachary Friggstad , Chaitanya Swamy

\textit{Clustering problems} often arise in the fields like data mining, machine learning etc. to group a collection of objects into similar groups with respect to a similarity (or dissimilarity) measure. Among the clustering problems,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Kasturi Varadarajan

In metric $k$-clustering, we are given as input a set of $n$ points in a general metric space, and we have to pick $k$ centers and cluster the input points around these chosen centers, so as to minimize an appropriate objective function. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Ermiya Farokhnejad

In the model of online caching with machine learned advice, introduced by Lykouris and Vassilvitskii, the goal is to solve the caching problem with an online algorithm that has access to next-arrival predictions: when each input element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Dhruv Rohatgi

We consider the problem of online min-cost perfect matching with concave delays. We begin with the single location variant. Specifically, requests arrive in an online fashion at a single location. The algorithm must then choose between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Yossi Azar , Runtian Ren , Danny Vainstein

The field of learning-augmented algorithms seeks to use ML techniques on past instances of a problem to inform an algorithm designed for a future instance. In this paper, we introduce a novel model for learning-augmented algorithms inspired…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Anish Hebbar , Rong Ge , Amit Kumar , Debmalya Panigrahi

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangke Cheng , Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Hu Ding

We study (Euclidean) $k$-median and $k$-means with constraints in the streaming model. There have been recent efforts to design unified algorithms to solve constrained $k$-means problems without using knowledge of the specific constraint at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

In this paper, we initiate the study of the multiplicative bidding language adopted by major Internet search companies. In multiplicative bidding, the effective bid on a particular search auction is the product of a base bid and bid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 MohammadHossein Bateni , Jon Feldman , Vahab Mirrokni , Sam Chiu-wai Wong