{ "schema_version": "1.0", "title": "Reproduction: Learning-Augmented Online Minimization with Dual Predictions", "emoji": "🔮", "space_id": "snaykey/repro-mr-autoencoder", "paper": { "arxiv_id": "2606.05380", "openreview_id": "JIbkbLYo3o" }, "tags": [ "icml2026-repro", "paper-JIbkbLYo3o" ], "updated_at": "2026-07-29T12:00:00+00:00", "root": { "slug": "index", "title": "Reproduction: Learning-Augmented Online Minimization with Dual Predictions", "children": [ { "slug": "executive-summary", "title": "Executive summary", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-1-theorem-1-1-laminar", "title": "For laminar set cover, the proposed dual-prediction algorithm achieves E[ALG] = (1+epsilon)*OPT + O(R*eta/epsilon) for any constant epsilon>0, where eta measures dual prediction error (Theorem 1.1).", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-2-theorem-3-1-mts", "title": "For metrical task systems, the dual-prediction algorithm (Algorithm 3, an A*-style search minimizing d(s_{t-1},s)+c_t(s)+w_hat_t(s)) achieves a (1+eta/OPT)-competitive ratio driven by the span seminorm of Bellman-operator discrepancies (Theorem 3.1).", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-3-lemma-a-1-dual-stability", "title": "Optimal dual solutions are stable under instance perturbations, satisfying ||y1* - y2*||_1 = O(|X1 Delta X2|), whereas optimal primal solutions can change arbitrarily under a single-element perturbation (Lemma A.1).", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-4-lemma-a-3-caching", "title": "Event predictions for caching are similarly shown to be unstable, since a single prediction error can cause the competitive ratio to collapse (Lemma A.3).", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-5-experiments", "title": "On the parking permit problem, the learning-augmented dual-prediction algorithm achieves 1.8x to 4.4x better competitive ratios than classical algorithms at K=9 permit types, and it outperforms baselines on the k-server problem using real bike-sharing data (Experiments section).", "children": [] }, { "slug": "claim-6-lemma-a-4-general-setcover", "title": "For general (non-laminar) set cover, even perfect dual predictions cannot beat the classical H_m competitive ratio under the standard LP formulation, showing laminar structure is necessary for the improvement (Lemma A.4).", "children": [] }, { "slug": "conclusion", "title": "Conclusion", "children": [] } ] }, "revision": 1 }