arXiv:2512.17381cs.NIcs.IT2025-12

为移动设备设计自适应更新策略,兼顾信息时效与成本。

Timely Information Updating for Mobile Devices Without and With ML Advice

  • 基于实时观测决定更新时机,应对多源不确定性。
  • 在对抗环境下逼近最优竞争比,更新成本范围影响性能。
  • 结合不可靠机器学习建议,实现完全信任或忽略的阈值策略。

本文研究移动设备监控物理过程并向接入点(AP)发送状态更新的信息更新系统。在AP处维持信息时效性与设备更新成本之间存在根本权衡。为此,我们提出一种仅依赖可观测信息的在线算法,用于决定何时发送更新。该算法在对抗环境下渐近达到最优竞争比,可同时应对操作时长、信息过期、更新成本和更新机会等多重不确定性。进一步地,通过引入未知可靠性的机器学习(ML)建议,我们设计了一种增强型算法,在对抗者还能破坏ML建议的情况下,仍能渐近实现最优的一致性-鲁棒性权衡。最优竞争比随更新成本范围线性增长,但不受其他不确定性来源影响。此外,最优在线算法对ML建议呈现阈值响应:要么完全信任,要么彻底忽略,部分信任无法提升一致性而不严重损害鲁棒性。在随机环境中的大量仿真验证了对抗环境下理论结果的正确性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper investigates an information update system in which a mobile device monitors a physical process and sends status updates to an access point (AP). A fundamental trade-off arises between the timeliness of the information maintained at the AP and the update cost incurred at the device. To address this trade-off, we propose an online algorithm that determines when to transmit updates using only available observations. The proposed algorithm asymptotically achieves the optimal competitive ratio against an adversary that can simultaneously manipulate multiple sources of uncertainty, including the operation duration, information staleness, update cost, and update opportunities. Furthermore, by incorporating machine learning (ML) advice of unknown reliability into the design, we develop an ML-augmented algorithm that asymptotically attains the optimal consistency-robustness trade-off, even when the adversary can additionally corrupt the ML advice. The optimal competitive ratio scales linearly with the range of update costs, but is unaffected by other sources of uncertainty. Moreover, an optimal competitive online algorithm exhibits a threshold-like response to the ML advice: it either fully trusts or completely ignores the ML advice, as partially trusting the advice cannot improve the consistency without severely degrading the robustness. Extensive simulations in stochastic settings further validate the theoretical findings in the adversarial environment.

在线算法信息时效机器学习移动系统

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