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Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

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In this article we study a broad class of integer programming problems in variable dimension. We show that these so-termed {\em n-fold integer programming problems} are polynomial time solvable. Our proof involves two heavy ingredients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Shmuel Onn , Robert Weismantel

We present a new algorithm for solving a polynomial program P based on the recent "joint + marginal" approach of the first author for, parametric optimization. The idea is to first consider the variable x1 as a parameter and solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Jean B. Lasserre , Thanh Tung Phan

The winner determination problems of many attractive multi-winner voting rules are NP-complete. However, they often admit polynomial-time algorithms when restricting inputs to be single-peaked. Commonly, such algorithms employ dynamic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dominik Peters

Bilevel linear programs (BLPs) form a class of hierarchical decision-making problems in which both the upper-level and the lower-level decision-makers, known as the leader and the follower, respectively, solve linear optimization problems.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

We present an algorithm to solve a system of diagonal polynomial equations over finite fields when the number of variables is greater than some fixed polynomial of the number of equations whose degree depends only on the degree of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Gabor Ivanyos , Miklos Santha

It is well known that the most challenging question in optimization and discrete geometry is whether there is a strongly polynomial time simplex algorithm for linear programs (LPs). This paper gives a positive answer to this question by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Zi-zong Yan , Xiang-jun Li , Jinhai Guo

We study optimal decision policies for integer linear programs with a fixed feasible set and varying cost vectors, represented as linear decision trees. Once synthesized for a given feasible set, they return an optimal solution for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Théo Guyard , Cleber Oliveira , Maximilian Schiffer , Eduardo Uchoa , Thibaut Vidal

This paper studies, for the first time, a bilevel polynomial program whose constraints involve uncertain linear constraints and another uncertain linear optimization problem. In the case of box data uncertainty, we present a sum of squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 T. D. Chuong , V. Jeyakumar

In this study, we consider a class of linear matroid interdiction problems, where the feasible sets for the upper-level decision-maker (referred to as a leader) and the lower-level decision-maker (referred to as a follower) are induced by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

Research efforts of the past fifty years have led to a development of linear integer programming as a mature discipline of mathematical optimization. Such a level of maturity has not been reached when one considers nonlinear systems subject…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Jon Lee , Robert Weismantel

In bilevel optimization problems, a leader and a follower make their decisions in a hierarchy, and both decisions may influence each other. Usually one assumes that both players have full knowledge also of the other player's data. In a more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Dorothee Henke

In this paper, an exact algorithm in polynomial time is developed to solve unrestricted binary quadratic programs. The computational complexity is $O\left( n^{\frac{15}{2}}\right) $, although very conservative, it is sufficient to prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Juan Ignacio Mulero-Martínez

A long-standing open question in Integer Programming is whether integer programs with constraint matrices with bounded subdeterminants are efficiently solvable. An important special case thereof are congruency-constrained integer programs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Martin Nägele , Richard Santiago , Rico Zenklusen

This article presents a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. This algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that works as follows. Primal and dual problems are combined into a special system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Awoniyi

We first show a simple but striking result in bilevel optimization: unconstrained $C^\infty$ smooth bilevel programming is as hard as general extended-real-valued lower semicontinuous minimization. We then proceed to a worst-case analysis…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Jérôme Bolte , Quoc-Tung Le , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

This article presents a validation of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. The proposed algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that combines primal and dual linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Samuel Awoniyi

For multiparametric mixed-integer convex programming problems such as those encountered in hybrid model predictive control, we propose an algorithm for generating a feasible partition of a subset of the parameter space. The result is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese , Martin Cacan , David S. Bayard

We introduce a framework based on bilevel programming that unifies gradient-based hyperparameter optimization and meta-learning. We show that an approximate version of the bilevel problem can be solved by taking into explicit account the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-04 Luca Franceschi , Paolo Frasconi , Saverio Salzo , Riccardo Grazzi , Massimilano Pontil

We show the existence of a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for the problem of maximizing a non-negative polynomial over mixed-integer sets in convex polytopes, when the number of variables is fixed. Moreover, using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Robert Weismantel