Tail-behavior roadmap for sharp restart

Author:

Eliazar IddoORCID,Reuveni ShlomiORCID

Abstract

Abstract Many tasks are accomplished via random processes. The completion time of such a task can be profoundly affected by restart: the occasional resetting of the task’s underlying random process. Consequently, determining when restart will impede or expedite task completion is a subject of major importance. In recent years researchers explored this subject extensively, with main focus set on average behavior, i.e. on mean completion times. On the one hand, the mean approach asserts the centrality of ‘sharp restart’—resetting with deterministic (fixed) timers. On the other hand, a significant drawback of the mean approach is that it provides no insight regarding tail behavior, i.e. the occurrence likelihood of extreme completion times. Addressing sharp restart, and shifting the focus from means to extremes, this paper establishes a comprehensive tail-behavior analysis of completion times. Employing the reliability-engineering notion of hazard rate, the analysis yields a set of universal results that determine—from a tail-behavior perspective—when sharp restart will impede or expedite task completion. The universal results are formulated in terms of simple and explicit hazard-rate criteria. With these novel results at hand, universal average-&-tail classification manuals for sharp restart are devised. The manuals specify when the average and tail behaviors are in accord, and when they are in dis-accord. Notably, the manuals pinpoint general scenarios in which—rather counter-intuitively—sharp restart has an opposite effect on average behavior and on tail behavior: decreasing mean completion times while dramatically increasing the likelihood of extreme completion times; and, conversely, increasing mean completion times while dramatically decreasing the likelihood of extreme completion times.

Funder

Israel Science Foundation

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics,Modeling and Simulation,Statistics and Probability,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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