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Monthly Archives: December 2017

k-server, part 2: continuous time mirror descent

We continue our -server series (see post 1 here). In this post we briefly discuss the concept of a fractional solution for -server, which by analogy with MTS will in fact be a fractional “anti-solution”. Then we introduce the continuous … Continue reading

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k-server, part 1: online learning and online algorithms

The -server problem is a classical and very attractive instance of online decision making. The decisions to be made in this problem are simple: given a requested location in some finite metric space and a fleet of k servers currently sitting … Continue reading

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