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A Linearithmic Time Locally Optimal Algorithm for the Multiway Number Partition Optimization

Data Structures and Algorithms 2022-03-14 v1 Machine Learning Combinatorics Optimization and Control

Abstract

We study the problem of multiway number partition optimization, which has a myriad of applications in the decision, learning and optimization literature. Even though the original multiway partitioning problem is NP-hard and requires exponential time complexity algorithms; we formulate an easier optimization problem, where our goal is to find a solution that is locally optimal. We propose a linearithmic time complexity O(NlogN)O(N\log N) algorithm that can produce such a locally optimal solution. Our method is robust against the input and requires neither positive nor integer inputs.

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@article{arxiv.2203.05618,
  title  = {A Linearithmic Time Locally Optimal Algorithm for the Multiway Number Partition Optimization},
  author = {Kaan Gokcesu and Hakan Gokcesu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05618},
  year   = {2022}
}
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