Mixing predictions for online metric algorithms

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Mixing predictions for online metric algorithms
المؤلفون: Antoniadis, Antonios, Coester, Christian, Eliáš, Marek, Polak, Adam, Simon, Bertrand
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms
الوصف: A major technique in learning-augmented online algorithms is combining multiple algorithms or predictors. Since the performance of each predictor may vary over time, it is desirable to use not the single best predictor as a benchmark, but rather a dynamic combination which follows different predictors at different times. We design algorithms that combine predictions and are competitive against such dynamic combinations for a wide class of online problems, namely, metrical task systems. Against the best (in hindsight) unconstrained combination of $\ell$ predictors, we obtain a competitive ratio of $O(\ell^2)$, and show that this is best possible. However, for a benchmark with slightly constrained number of switches between different predictors, we can get a $(1+\epsilon)$-competitive algorithm. Moreover, our algorithms can be adapted to access predictors in a bandit-like fashion, querying only one predictor at a time. An unexpected implication of one of our lower bounds is a new structural insight about covering formulations for the $k$-server problem.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01781
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2304.01781
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv