Learning-Augmented Approximation for Unrelated-Machines Makespan Scheduling
Recently, Antoniadis et al. (ICLR 2025) proposed a framework for incorporating predictions to approximate NP-hard selection problems.
arXiv:2607. 05759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Submodular maximization is an important building block for developing algorithms in many areas such as machine learning and data mining.
Recently, Antoniadis et al. (ICLR 2025) proposed a framework for incorporating predictions to approximate NP-hard selection problems.
arXiv:2606. 04946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consistency is an important property in dynamic submodular maximization and entails maintaining a near-optimal solution at all times, making only a small number of adjustments to the solution in each step.
arXiv:2607. 25484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In some real applications a plan may later become unfeasible due to newly imposed budget constraints, yet, at the same time, using only the original actions of the plan and their order is mandatory.
arXiv:2607. 22467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity poses a fundamental challenge in training generative models to produce initial guesses for parametric optimization problems that are otherwise numerically expensive to solve.
arXiv:2606. 14648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust machine learning and optimization rely on the uncertainty model choice.
arXiv:2607. 22263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A data-driven inverse optimization problem (DDIOP) is the problem of estimating the objective-function parameters (weights) that explain observed optimal-solution data, and it arises in many applications, including integer linear programming (ILP).
arXiv:2608. 11383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study new algorithms for Contextual Bandits with Knapsack.
arXiv:2407. 04900v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Numerous existing studies have examined the performance of Sample Average Approximation (SAA) in the fundamental newsvendor problem.
arXiv:2606. 08797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision-focused learning has shown great promise for addressing predict-then-optimize problems, particularly in the presence of under-specified models.
arXiv:2509. 21725v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A bilevel optimization problem consists of two optimization problems nested as an upper- and a lower-level problem, in which the optimality of the lower-level problem defines a constraint for the upper-level problem.
arXiv:2606. 18807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The field of learning-augmented algorithms has demonstrated that machine-learned predictions can bypass worst-case lower bounds across a wide range of problems.
arXiv:2606. 19587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a scalable method for training prediction (machine learning) models in the predict-then-optimize paradigm, where model outputs serve as coefficients for a subsequent linear optimization task.