Online Discrepancy Minimization via Persistent Self-Balancing Walks

4 Feb 2021  ·  David Arbour, Drew Dimmery, Tung Mai, Anup Rao ·

We study the online discrepancy minimization problem for vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in the oblivious setting where an adversary is allowed fix the vectors $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n$ in arbitrary order ahead of time. We give an algorithm that maintains $O(\sqrt{\log(nd/\delta)})$ discrepancy with probability $1-\delta$, matching the lower bound given in [Bansal et al. 2020] up to an $O(\sqrt{\log \log n})$ factor in the high-probability regime. We also provide results for the weighted and multi-color versions of the problem.

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Data Structures and Algorithms Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

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