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Jure Leskovec, Stanford University - SNAP - Stanford University

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You get to see one input piece<br />

at a time, and need to make<br />

irrevocable decisions<br />

Competitive ratio =<br />

min all inputs I (|M my_alg|/|M opt|)<br />

Greedy online matching:<br />

competitive ratio= |M greedy|/|M opt| ≥ 1/2<br />

Addwords problem:<br />

Query arrives to a search engine<br />

Several advertisers bid on the query query<br />

Pick a subset of advertisers whose ads are shown<br />

3/9/2011 <strong>Jure</strong> <strong>Leskovec</strong>, <strong>Stanford</strong> C246: Mining Massive Datasets 35<br />

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