An Improved Drift Theorem for Balanced Allocations
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| author | Los, Dimitrios Sauerwald, Thomas |
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| contents | In the balanced allocations framework, there are $m$ jobs (balls) to be allocated to $n$ servers (bins). The goal is to minimize the gap, the difference between the maximum and the average load.
Peres, Talwar and Wieder (RSA 2015) used the hyperbolic cosine potential function to analyze a large family of allocation processes including the $(1+β)$-process and graphical balanced allocations. The key ingredient was to prove that the potential drops in every step, i.e., a drift inequality.
In this work we improve the drift inequality so that (i) it is asymptotically tighter, (ii) it assumes weaker preconditions, (iii) it applies not only to processes allocating to more than one bin in a single step and (iv) to processes allocating a varying number of balls depending on the sampled bin. Our applications include the processes of (RSA 2015), but also several new processes, and we believe that our techniques may lead to further results in future work. |
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| spellingShingle | An Improved Drift Theorem for Balanced Allocations Los, Dimitrios Sauerwald, Thomas Probability Discrete Mathematics 68W20, 68W27, 68W40, 60C05 G.3; G.2.m; F.2.2 In the balanced allocations framework, there are $m$ jobs (balls) to be allocated to $n$ servers (bins). The goal is to minimize the gap, the difference between the maximum and the average load. Peres, Talwar and Wieder (RSA 2015) used the hyperbolic cosine potential function to analyze a large family of allocation processes including the $(1+β)$-process and graphical balanced allocations. The key ingredient was to prove that the potential drops in every step, i.e., a drift inequality. In this work we improve the drift inequality so that (i) it is asymptotically tighter, (ii) it assumes weaker preconditions, (iii) it applies not only to processes allocating to more than one bin in a single step and (iv) to processes allocating a varying number of balls depending on the sampled bin. Our applications include the processes of (RSA 2015), but also several new processes, and we believe that our techniques may lead to further results in future work. |
| title | An Improved Drift Theorem for Balanced Allocations |
| topic | Probability Discrete Mathematics 68W20, 68W27, 68W40, 60C05 G.3; G.2.m; F.2.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11083 |