Online matching: A brief survey

Z Huang, ZG Tang, D Wajc - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Matching, capturing allocation of items to unit-demand buyers, or tasks to workers, or pairs of
collaborators, is a central problem in economics. Indeed, the growing prevalence of …

Dual mirror descent for online allocation problems

S Balseiro, H Lu, V Mirrokni - International Conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider online allocation problems with concave revenue functions and resource
constraints, which are central problems in revenue management and online advertising. In …

The primal-dual method for learning augmented algorithms

E Bamas, A Maggiori… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
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 …

Online matching and ad allocation

A Mehta - … and Trends® in Theoretical Computer Science, 2013 - nowpublishers.com
Matching is a classic problem with a rich history and a significant impact, both on the theory
of algorithms and in practice. Recently there has been a surge of interest in the online …

Adwords and generalized online matching

A Mehta, A Saberi, U Vazirani, V Vazirani - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2007 - dl.acm.org
How does a search engine company decide what ads to display with each query so as to
maximize its revenue? This turns out to be a generalization of the online bipartite matching …

Online task assignment in crowdsourcing markets

CJ Ho, J Vaughan - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2012 - ojs.aaai.org
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different,
unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first …

The design of competitive online algorithms via a primal–dual approach

N Buchbinder, JS Naor - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2009 - nowpublishers.com
The primal–dual method is a powerful algorithmic technique that has proved to be extremely
useful for a wide variety of problems in the area of approximation algorithms for NP-hard …

Adaptive task assignment for crowdsourced classification

CJ Ho, S Jabbari, JW Vaughan - … conference on machine …, 2013 - proceedings.mlr.press
Crowdsourcing markets have gained popularity as a tool for inexpensively collecting data
from diverse populations of workers. Classification tasks, in which workers provide labels …

The adwords problem: online keyword matching with budgeted bidders under random permutations

NR Devanur, TP Hayes - Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of a search engine trying to assign a sequence of search keywords
to a set of competing bidders, each with a daily spending limit. The goal is to maximize the …

Online stochastic matching: Beating 1-1/e

J Feldman, A Mehta, V Mirrokni… - 2009 50th Annual …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the online stochastic bipartite matching problem, in a form motivated by display ad
allocation on the Internet. In the online, but adversarial case, the celebrated result of Karp …