Paging with Succinct Predictions.

Antonios Antoniadis, Joan Boyar, Marek Eliáš, Lene M. Favrholdt, Ruben Hoeksma, Kim S. Larsen, Adam Polak, and Bertrand Simon.
In 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), volume 202 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pages 952-968. PMLR, 2023.

Paging is a prototypical problem in the area of online algorithms. It has also played a central role in the development of learning-augmented algorithms - a recent line of research that aims to ameliorate the shortcomings of classical worst-case analysis by giving algorithms access to predictions. Such predictions can typically be generated using a machine learning approach, but they are inherently imperfect. Previous work on learning-augmented paging has investigated predictions on (i) when the current page will be requested again (reoccurrence predictions), (ii) the current state of the cache in an optimal algorithm (state predictions), (iii) all requests until the current page gets requested again, and (iv) the relative order in which pages are requested. We study learning-augmented paging from the new perspective of requiring the least possible amount of predicted information. More specifically, the predictions obtained alongside each page request are limited to one bit only. We consider two natural such setups: (i) discard predictions, in which the predicted bit denotes whether or not it is "safe" to evict this page, and (ii) phase predictions, where the bit denotes whether the current page will be requested in the next phase (for an appropriate partitioning of the input into phases). We develop algorithms for each of the two setups that satisfy all three desirable properties of learning-augmented algorithms - that is, they are consistent, robust and smooth - despite being limited to a one-bit prediction per request. We also present lower bounds establishing that our algorithms are essentially best possible.

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