Recent developments in pandora's box problem: Variants and applications

H Beyhaghi, L Cai - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In 1979, Weitzman introduced Pandora's box problem as a framework for sequential search
with costly inspections. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Pandora's box …

Optimal robustness-consistency trade-offs for learning-augmented online algorithms

A Wei, F Zhang - Advances in Neural Information …, 2020‏ - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of improving the performance of online algorithms by incorporating
machine-learned predictions. The goal is to design algorithms that are both consistent and …

Learnable and instance-robust predictions for online matching, flows and load balancing

T Lavastida, B Moseley, R Ravi, C Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2011.11743, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
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 …

How much data is sufficient to learn high-performing algorithms? generalization guarantees for data-driven algorithm design

MF Balcan, D DeBlasio, T Dick, C Kingsford… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Algorithms often have tunable parameters that impact performance metrics such as runtime
and solution quality. For many algorithms used in practice, no parameter settings admit …

Prophet secretary against the online optimal

P Dütting, E Gergatsouli, R Rezvan, Y Teng… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
We study the prophet secretary problem, a well-studied variant of the classic prophet
inequality, where values are drawn from independent known distributions but arrive in …

Robustification of online graph exploration methods

F Eberle, A Lindermayr, N Megow, L Nölke… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Exploring unknown environments is a fundamental task in many domains, eg, robot
navigation, network security, and internet search. We initiate the study of a learning …

Efficient approximation schemes for stochastic probing and prophet problems

D Segev, S Singla - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Our main contribution is a general framework to design efficient polynomial time
approximation schemes (EPTAS) for fundamental stochastic combinatorial optimization …

Faster matchings via learned duals

M Dinitz, S Im, T Lavastida… - Advances in neural …, 2021‏ - proceedings.neurips.cc
A recent line of research investigates how algorithms can be augmented with machine-
learned predictions to overcome worst case lower bounds. This area has revealed …

Pandora's problem with nonobligatory inspection: Optimal structure and a PTAS

H Beyhaghi, L Cai - Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Weitzman (1979) introduced Pandora's box problem as a mathematical model of sequential
search with inspection costs, in which a searcher is allowed to select a prize from one of n …

Pandora's box problem with order constraints

S Boodaghians, F Fusco, P Lazos… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
The Pandora's Box Problem, originally formalized by Weitzman in 1979, models selection
from a set of options each with stochastic parameters, when evaluation (ie sampling) is …