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Secretary Problems, Prophet Inequalities, and Contention Resolution Schemes
Secretary Problems, Prophet Inequalities, and Contention Resolution Schemes
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104737
- ISBN
- 9798290649269
- DDC
- 519.2
- 저자명
- Nuti, Pranav.
- 서명/저자
- Secretary Problems, Prophet Inequalities, and Contention Resolution Schemes
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Stanford University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 165 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Vondrak, Jan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약In this thesis, we study online selection problems, focusing on variants of secretary problems, prophet inequalities, and contention resolution schemes.In chapter 2, we study variants of the secretary problem where the observations Xj are draws from distributions Dj, and we wish to find algorithms which maximize the probability of selecting the largest draw. In case we have access to the distributions and the draws are randomly ordered, we give an optimal algorithm with success probability 0.5801, matching the case where the distributions are identical, and establishing a conjecture of Esfandiari et al. We then study variants where we only have sample access to the distributions. Our main results in the context are: (i) an algorithm with success probability 0.5009 in the single sample random order case (nearly matching the upper bound of ≃ 0.5024); (ii) an optimal algorithm with success probability 0.25 in the single sample adversarial order case.In chapter 3, we study prophet inequalities with cancellation costs. Most of the literature on online selection problems focuses on settings with irrevocable decisions. In contrast, we consider a model in which after deciding to select some variable Xj, we may still choose to discard it and accept another variable Xj at a buyback cost of f X₁. The goal is to maximize the expected value of the final accepted variable minus the cost of discarding all the other accepted variables. Our main results are: (i) in case f≥ 1. an optimal prophet inequality with competitive ratio 1+f/1+2f; (ii) in case f→ 0. an asymptotically optimal prophet inequality with competitive ratio 1 − Θ ( f log( 1/f ) ) .In chapter 4, we study contention resolution schemes (CRSs) for matchings focusing on the regime with vanishing edge probabilities. Our main results in this regime are: (i) an optimal ≃ 0.544-selectable CRS in the offline case; (ii) a conjecturally optimal ≃ 0.382-selectable OCRS in the adversarial order case, along with an upper bound of 0.390 on the selectability; (iii) an optimal 0.5-selectable RCRS in the random order case; and (iv) a ≃0.510-selectable CRS in the free order case. In the non-vanishing regime, we construct a 0.509-selectable contention resolution scheme for bipartite matchings, establishing for the first time, a separation between offline and random order online contention resolution schemes.
- 일반주제명
- Probability
- 일반주제명
- Linear programming
- 일반주제명
- Success
- 일반주제명
- Bids
- 일반주제명
- Decision making
- 일반주제명
- Applied mathematics
- 기타저자
- Stanford University.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0212.
■650 4▼aProbability
■650 4▼aLinear programming
■650 4▼aSuccess
■650 4▼aBids
■650 4▼aDecision making
■650 4▼aApplied mathematics
■653 ▼aSecretary problems
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■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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