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Poster

Online Bipartite Matching with Advice: Tight Robustness-Consistency Tradeoffs for the Two-Stage Model

Billy Jin · Will Ma

Hall J (level 1) #836

Keywords: [ online algorithms with advice ] [ two stage optimization ] [ learning augmented ] [ prediction augmented ] [ Online matching ]


Abstract: We study the two-stage vertex-weighted online bipartite matching problem of Feng, Niazadeh, and Saberi (SODA ‘21) in a setting where the algorithm has access to a suggested matching that is recommended in the first stage. We evaluate an algorithm by its robustness R, which is its performance relative to that of the optimal offline matching, and its consistency C, which is its performance when the advice or the prediction given is correct. We characterize for this problem the Pareto-efficient frontier between robustness and consistency, which is rare in the literature on advice-augmented algorithms, yet necessary for quantifying such an algorithm to be optimal. Specifically, we propose an algorithm that is R-robust and C-consistent for any (R,C) with 0R34 and 1R+1C=1, and prove that no other algorithm can achieve a better tradeoff.

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