arXiv:2601.18936cs.LG2026-01

解决网络资源分配中快慢决策耦合难题,实现动态预算与调度协同优化。

Bi-Level Online Provisioning and Scheduling with Switching Costs and Cross-Level Constraints

  • 构建双层在线优化框架,上层调预算,下层依状态调度。
  • 在切换成本与跨层约束下,实现近似最优性能与高概率约束满足。
  • 适用于云网络、边缘计算等需实时资源调度的场景。

我们研究了一个由网络资源分配启发的双层在线资源配置与调度问题,其中资源配置决策在慢时间尺度上做出,而队列/状态依赖的调度在快时间尺度上执行。通过上层在线凸优化(OCO)和下层受约束马尔可夫决策过程(CMDP)建模这种双时间尺度交互。现有OCO通常假设无状态决策,无法捕捉如队列演化的MDP网络动态;而现有CMDP算法通常假设固定约束阈值,但在资源配置-调度系统中,该阈值随在线预算决策变化。为填补这一空白,我们研究了含切换成本(预算再配置/系统重构)和跨层约束(预算与调度决策耦合)的双层OCO-CMDP学习问题。新算法通过多项非平凡设计解决该问题,包括精心设计的对偶反馈(返回预算乘子作为上层更新的敏感性信息),以及下层通过扩展的占用测度线性规划求解预算自适应的安全探索问题。我们建立了近似最优的遗憾界,并保证跨层约束以高概率被满足。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study a bi-level online provisioning and scheduling problem motivated by network resource allocation, where provisioning decisions are made at a slow time scale while queue-/state-dependent scheduling is performed at a fast time scale. We model this two-time-scale interaction using an upper-level online convex optimization (OCO) problem and a lower-level constrained Markov decision process (CMDP). Existing OCO typically assumes stateless decisions and thus cannot capture MDP network dynamics such as queue evolution. Meanwhile, CMDP algorithms typically assume a fixed constraint threshold, whereas in provisioning-and-scheduling systems, the threshold varies with online budget decisions. To address these gaps, we study bi-level OCO-CMDP learning under switching costs (budget reprovisioning/system reconfiguration) and cross-level constraints that couple budgets to scheduling decisions. Our new algorithm solves this learning problem via several non-trivial developments, including a carefully designed dual feedback that returns the budget multiplier as sensitivity information for the upper-level update and a lower level that solves a budget-adaptive safe exploration problem via an extended occupancy-measure linear program. We establish near-optimal regret and high-probability satisfaction of the cross-level constraints.

资源调度在线优化双层学习网络系统

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