Related papers: On reduction integer programs to knapsack problem
We consider the maximization problem of monotone submodular functions under an uncertain knapsack constraint. Specifically, the problem is discussed in the situation that the knapsack capacity is not given explicitly and can be accessed…
We classify, according to their computational complexity, integer optimization problems whose constraints and objective functions are polynomials with integer coefficients and the number of variables is fixed. For the optimization of an…
In this paper we consider the closest vector problem (CVP) for lattices $\Lambda \subseteq \mathbb{Z}^n$ given by a generator matrix $A\in \mathcal{M}_{n\times n}(\mathbb{Z})$. Let $b>0$ be the maximum of the absolute values of the entries…
We present a local algorithm (constant-time distributed algorithm) for approximating max-min LPs. The objective is to maximise $\omega$ subject to $Ax \le 1$, $Cx \ge \omega 1$, and $x \ge 0$ for nonnegative matrices $A$ and $C$. The…
In this note we study packing or covering integer programs with at most k constraints, which are also known as k-dimensional knapsack problems. For any integer k > 0 and real epsilon > 0, we observe there is a polynomial-sized LP for the…
This paper studies binary quadratic programs in which the objective is defined by a Euclidean distance matrix, subject to a general polyhedral constraint set. This class of nonconcave maximisation problems includes the capacitated,…
We consider the problem of minimizing a linear function over an affine section of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices, with the additional constraint that the feasible matrix has prescribed rank. When the rank constraint is active,…
In this paper we consider the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem: given an (elementwise) nonnegative matrix $V \in \R_+^{m\times n}$ find, for assigned $k$, nonnegative matrices $W\in\R_+^{m\times k}$ and $H\in\R_+^{k\times n}$…
This paper presents a convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems that are non-convex in the input norm, which is a…
Integer programming is concerned with solving linear systems of equations over the non-negative integers. The basic question is to find a solution which minimizes a given linear objective function for a fixed right hand side. Here we also…
In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing $k$-submodular functions subject to a knapsack constraint. For monotone objective functions, we present a $\frac{1}{2}(1-e^{-2})\approx 0.432$ greedy approximation algorithm. For the…
In this paper, several row and column orthogonal projection methods are proposed for solving matrix equation $AXB=C$, where the matrix $A$ and $B$ are full rank or rank deficient and equation is consistent or not. These methods are…
The paper covers a formulation of the inverse quadratic programming problem in terms of unconstrained optimization where it is required to find the unknown parameters (the matrix of the quadratic form and the vector of the quasi-linear part…
In this paper, we study the non-monotone adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a knapsack and a $k$-system constraints. The input of our problem is a set of items, where each item has a particular state drawn from a known…
In this paper we explore avenues for improving the reliability of dimensionality reduction methods such as Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) as interpretive exploratory data analysis tools. We first explore the difficulties of the…
In the present work, firstly, we use a minimax equality to prove the existence of a solution of certain system of varitional equations and we provide a numerical approximation of such a solution. Then, we propose a numerical method to solve…
We study the two-dimensional geometric knapsack problem for convex polygons. Given a set of weighted convex polygons and a square knapsack, the goal is to select the most profitable subset of the given polygons that fits non-overlappingly…
We consider the bin packing problem with $d$ different item sizes and revisit the structure theorem given by Goemans and Rothvo\ss [6] about solutions of the integer cone. We present new techniques on how solutions can be modified and give…
Matrix decomposition is ubiquitous and has applications in various fields like speech processing, data mining and image processing to name a few. Under matrix decomposition, nonnegative matrix factorization is used to decompose a…
A computationally efficient method to solve non-convex programming problems with linear equality constraints is presented. The proposed method is based on a recursively feasible and descending sequential convex programming procedure proven…