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 …

Online stochastic max-weight matching: Prophet inequality for vertex and edge arrival models

T Ezra, M Feldman, N Gravin, ZG Tang - … of the 21st ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We provide prophet inequality algorithms for online weighted matching in general (non-
bipartite) graphs, under two well-studied arrival models, namely edge arrival and vertex …

Optimal single-choice prophet inequalities from samples

A Rubinstein, JZ Wang, SM Weinberg - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07945, 2019 - arxiv.org
We study the single-choice Prophet Inequality problem when the gambler is given access to
samples. We show that the optimal competitive ratio of $1/2$ can be achieved with a single …

Prophet inequalities for iid random variables from an unknown distribution

J Correa, P Dütting, F Fischer, K Schewior - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
A central object in optimal stopping theory is the single-choice prophet inequality for
independent, identically distributed random variables: given a sequence of random …

Near-optimal bayesian online assortment of reusable resources

Y Feng, R Niazadeh, A Saberi - … of the 23rd ACM Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by the applications of rental services in e-commerce, we consider revenue
maximization in online assortment of reusable resources for a stream of arriving consumers …

Online stochastic max-weight bipartite matching: Beyond prophet inequalities

C Papadimitriou, T Pollner, A Saberi… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The rich literature on online Bayesian selection problems has long focused on so-called
prophet inequalities, which compare the gain of an online algorithm to that of a" prophet" …

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 …

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 …

On the robustness of mechanism design under total variation distance

A Makur, M Mertzanidis, A Psomas… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of designing mechanisms when agents' valuation functions are drawn
from unknown and correlated prior distributions. In particular, we are given a prior …

Two-stage stochastic matching with application to ride hailing

Y Feng, R Niazadeh, A Saberi - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM …, 2021 - SIAM
We study a two-stage stochastic matching problem motivated in part by applications in
online marketplaces used for ride hailing. Using a randomized primal-dual algorithm applied …