On-line balancing of random inputs

DOI10.1002/RSA.20955MaRDI QIDQ3386519zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. Bansal, Joel Spencer

Publication date 5 January 2021

Published in Random Structures \& Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06898

zbMATH Keywords

online algorithmsdiscrepancyrandom vectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Online algorithms; streaming algorithms (68W27) Algorithmic game theory and complexity (91A68)

Abstract: We consider an online vector balancing game where vectors $v_t$, chosen uniformly at random in ${-1,+1}^n$, arrive over time and a sign $x_{t}in-1,+1$ must be picked immediately upon the arrival of $v_t$. The goal is to minimize the $L^{i}nfty$ norm of the signed sum $su{m}_t{x}_t{v}_t$. We give an online strategy for picking the signs $x_t$ that has value $O(n^{1/2})$ with high probability. Up to constants, this is the best possible even when the vectors are given in advance.

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