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Real-stable, Lorentzian, and log-concave polynomials are well-studied classes of polynomials, and have been powerful tools in resolving several conjectures. We show that the problems of deciding whether a polynomial of fixed degree is real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Tracy Chin

Probabilistic solvers for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide efficient quantification of numerical uncertainty associated with simulation of dynamical systems. Their convergence rates have been established by a growing body of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-21 Nicholas Krämer , Philipp Hennig

The solution of linear inverse problems arising, for example, in signal and image processing is a challenging problem since the ill-conditioning amplifies, in the solution, the noise present in the data. Recently introduced algorithms based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Davide Evangelista , James Nagy , Elena Morotti , Elena Loli Piccolomini

We introduce the {\sc classified stable matching} problem, a problem motivated by academic hiring. Suppose that a number of institutes are hiring faculty members from a pool of applicants. Both institutes and applicants have preferences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-25 Chien-Chung Huang

Several works have shown that perturbation stable instances of the MAP inference problem in Potts models can be solved exactly using a natural linear programming (LP) relaxation. However, most of these works give few (or no) guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-02 Hunter Lang , Aravind Reddy , David Sontag , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

In this note we consider the Steiner tree problem under Bilu-Linial stability. We give strong geometric structural properties that need to be satisfied by stable instances. We then make use of, and strengthen, these geometric properties to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 James Freitag , Neshat Mohammadi , Aditya Potukuchi , Lev Reyzin

In this paper, we consider the problem of stabilizing discrete-time linear systems by computing a nearby stable matrix to an unstable one. To do so, we provide a new characterization for the set of stable matrices. We show that a matrix $A$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Nicolas Gillis , Michael Karow , Punit Sharma

The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. We consider a useful variation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Mirco Gelain , Maria Silvia Pini , Francesca RossI , Kristen Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

{\em Reoptimization} is a setting in which we are given an (near) optimal solution of a problem instance and a local modification that slightly changes the instance. The main goal is that of finding an (near) optimal solution of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Davide Bilò

We develop a framework to give upper bounds on the "practical" computational complexity of stability problems for a wide range of nonlinear continuous and hybrid systems. To do so, we describe stability properties of dynamical systems using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Sicun Gao , Soonho Kong , Edmund Clarke

Solutions of bilevel optimization problems tend to suffer from instability under changes to problem data. In the optimistic setting, we construct a lifted formulation that exhibits desirable stability properties under mild assumptions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Johannes O. Royset

In this research paper, the problem of optimization of a quadratic form over the convex hull generated by the corners of hypercube is attempted and solved. Some results related to stable states/vectors, anti-stable states/vectors (over the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Garimella Rama Murthy

We study the graphs formed from instances of the stable matching problem by connecting pairs of elements with an edge when there exists a stable matching in which they are matched. Our results include the NP-completeness of recognizing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 David Eppstein

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…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Linda Farczadi , Natália Guričanová

This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Carlos Barrón-Romero

An important aspect in systems of multiple autonomous agents is the exploitation of synergies via coalition formation. In this paper, we solve various open problems concerning the computational complexity of stable partitions in additively…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Haris Aziz , Felix Brandt , Hans Georg Seedig

The matter of the stability for multi-asset American option pricing problems is a present remaining challenge. In this paper a general transformation of variables allows to remove cross derivative terms reducing the stencil of the proposed…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2017-01-31 Rafael Company , Vera Egorova , Lucas Jódar , Fazlollah Soleymani

In this note, we polynomially reduce an instance of the partition problem to a dynamic lot sizing problem, and show that solving the latter problem solves the former problem. By solving the dynamic program formulation of the dynamic lot…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chee-Khian Sim

An instance $I$ of the Stable Matching Problem (SMP) is given by a bipartite graph with a preference list of neighbors for every vertex. A swap in $I$ is the exchange of two consecutive vertices in a preference list. A swap can be viewed as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Eduard Eiben , Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Clément Rambaud , Magnus Wahlström , Anders Yeo

We consider the stable matching problem when the preference lists are not given explicitly but are represented in a succinct way and ask whether the problem becomes computationally easier and investigate other implications. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Marvin Künnemann , Daniel Moeller , Ramamohan Paturi , Stefan Schneider