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Many methods for performing multi-objective optimisation of computationally expensive problems have been proposed recently. Typically, a probabilistic surrogate for each objective is constructed from an initial dataset. The surrogates can…

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We study the stable matching problem in non-bipartite graphs with incomplete but strict preference lists, where the edges have weights and the goal is to compute a stable matching of minimum or maximum weight. This problem is known to be…

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We establish the optimal nonergodic sublinear convergence rate of the proximal point algorithm for maximal monotone inclusion problems. First, the optimal bound is formulated by the performance estimation framework, resulting in an infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

When, in terms of the number of data points, the size of a dataset exceeds available computing resources, or when labeling is expensive, an attractive solution consists of selecting only some of the data points (subdata) for further…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Min Yang , Wei Zheng , John Stufken , Ming-Chung Chang , Ting Tian , Xueqin Wang

Penetration depth (PD) is essential for robotics due to its extensive applications in dynamic simulation, motion planning, haptic rendering, etc. The Expanding Polytope Algorithm (EPA) is the de facto standard for this problem, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Wei Gao

It is well known that Sparse PCA (Sparse Principal Component Analysis) is NP-hard to solve exactly on worst-case instances. What is the complexity of solving Sparse PCA approximately? Our contributions include: 1) a simple and efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-22 Siu On Chan , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Aviad Rubinstein

Sparsity finds applications in areas as diverse as statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. Computations over sparse structures are less complex compared to their dense counterparts, and their storage consumes less space. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Omar M. Sleem , M. E. Ashour , N. S. Aybat , Constantino M. Lagoa

It is well known that, under very weak assumptions, multiobjective optimization problems admit $(1+\varepsilon,\dots,1+\varepsilon)$-approximation sets (also called $\varepsilon$-Pareto sets) of polynomial cardinality (in the size of the…

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We consider a recently introduced fair repetitive scheduling problem involving a set of clients, each asking for their associated job to be daily scheduled on a single machine across a finite planning horizon. The goal is to determine a job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Danny Hermelin , Danny Segev , Dvir Shabtay

The problem of maximizing the $p$-th power of a $p$-norm over a halfspace-presented polytope in $\R^d$ is a convex maximization problem which plays a fundamental role in computational convexity. It has been shown in 1986 that this problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Christian Knauer , Stefan König , Daniel Werner

A problem of minimization of delivery and storage costs of a product is considered under constraints on volumes of delivery from each of the suppliers. It is required to determine optimal volumes and times of product shipments. The problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Natalia Burlakova , Vladimir Servakh

Maximization of an expensive, unimodal function under random observations has been an important problem in hyperparameter tuning. It features expensive function evaluations (which means small budgets) and a high level of noise. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Xiaohe Luo , Warren B. Powell

We present a new algorithm to calculate exact hypervolumes. Given a set of $d$-dimensional points, it computes the hypervolume of the dominated space. Determining this value is an important subroutine of Multiobjective Evolutionary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-30 Luís M. S. Russo , Alexandre P. Francisco

The Pareto sum of two-dimensional point sets $P$ and $Q$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ is defined as the skyline of the points in their Minkowski sum. The problem of efficiently computing the Pareto sum arises frequently in bi-criteria optimization…

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This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Xiaoxue Jiang

We study sparsity in the max-plus algebraic setting. We seek both exact and approximate solutions of the max-plus linear equation with minimum cardinality of support. In the former case, the sparsest solution problem is shown to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Anastasios Tsiamis , Petros Maragos

We show that the pseudoflow algorithm for maximum flow is particularly efficient for the bipartite matching problem both in theory and in practice. We develop several implementations of the pseudoflow algorithm for bipartite matching, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Bala G. Chandran , Dorit S. Hochbaum

Papadimitriou and Yannakakis show that the polynomial-time solvability of a certain singleobjective problem determines the class of multiobjective optimization problems that admit a polynomial-time computable $(1+\varepsilon, \dots ,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Arne Herzel , Cristina Bazgan , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Daniel Vanderpooten

For regular Pareto Fronts (PFs), such as those that are smooth, continuous, and uniformly distributed, using fixed weight vectors is sufficient for multi-objective optimization approaches using decomposition. However, when encountering…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xiaojing Han , Yuanxin Li

This work studies the non-monotone DR-submodular Maximization over a ground set of $n$ subject to a size constraint $k$. We propose two approximation algorithms for solving this problem named FastDrSub and FastDrSub++. FastDrSub offers an…

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