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Indefinite quadratic programs (QPs) are known to be very difficult to be solved to global optimality, so are linear programs with linear complementarity constraints. Treating the former as a subclass of the latter, this paper presents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Xinyao Zhang , Shaoning Han , Jong-Shi Pang

The main focus of this paper is a pair of new approximation algorithms for certain integer programs. First, for covering integer programs {min cx: Ax >= b, 0 <= x <= d} where A has at most k nonzeroes per row, we give a k-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-09 David Pritchard , Deeparnab Chakrabarty

The Edge Interdiction Clique Problem (EICP) aims to remove at most $k$ edges from a graph so as to minimize the size of the largest clique in the remaining graph. This problem captures a fundamental question in graph manipulation: which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yi Zhou , Haoyu Jiang , Chenghao Zhu , André Rossi

This paper examines the computational complexity of the \emph{Core Identification Problem} (CIP) in one-sided matching markets governed by the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) algorithm. The central contribution is a formal complexity separation:…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Irene Aldridge

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) can be seen as the archetypical problem for NP-complete optimization problems, and a wide range of problems in artificial intelligence are solved in practice via a translation to ILP. Despite its huge range…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak

We consider the problem of approximating Quadratic O-1 Integer Programs with bounded number of constraints and non-negative constraint matrix entries, which we term as PIQP. We describe and analyze a randomized algorithm based on a program…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Sanjiv Kapoor , Hemanshu Kaul

There is a large discrepancy in our understanding of uncapacitated and capacitated versions of network location problems. This is perhaps best illustrated by the classical k-center problem: there is a simple tight 2-approximation algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Hyung-Chan An , Aditya Bhaskara , Ola Svensson

We prove the #P-hardness of the counting problems associated with various satisfiability, graph and combinatorial problems, when restricted to planar instances. These problems include \begin{romannum} \item[{}] {\sc 3Sat, 1-3Sat, 1-Ex3Sat,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry B. Hunt , Madhav V. Marathe , Venkatesh Radhakrishnan , Richard E. Stearns

A matching in a graph is induced if no two of its edges are joined by an edge, and finding a large induced matching is a very hard problem. Lin et al. (Approximating weighted induced matchings, Discrete Applied Mathematics 243 (2018)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Julien Baste , Maximilian Fürst , Dieter Rautenbach

We give a nontrivial algorithm for the satisfiability problem for cn-wire threshold circuits of depth two which is better than exhaustive search by a factor 2^{sn} where s= 1/c^{O(c^2)}. We believe that this is the first nontrivial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Russell Impagliazzo , Ramamohan Paturi , Stefan Schneider

We present a class of linear programming approximations for constrained optimization problems. In the case of mixed-integer polynomial optimization problems, if the intersection graph of the constraints has bounded tree-width our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Daniel Bienstock , Gonzalo Munoz

Given real numbers whose sum is an integer, we study the problem of finding integers which match these real numbers as closely as possible, in the sense of L^p norm, while preserving the sum. We describe the structure of solutions for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Rama Cont , Massoud Heidari

We developed a corporative stochastic approximation (CSA) type algorithm for semi-infinite programming (SIP), where the cut generation problem is solved inexactly. First, we provide general error bounds for inexact CSA. Then, we propose two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Bo Wei , William B. Haskell , Sixiang Zhao

Inspection planning is concerned with computing the shortest robot path to inspect a given set of points of interest (POIs) using the robot's sensors. This problem arises in a wide range of applications from manufacturing to medical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adir Morgan , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

Recently, the makespan-minimization problem of compiling a general class of quantum algorithms into near-term quantum processors has been introduced to the AI community. The research demonstrated that temporal planning is a strong approach…

In this paper we study the fine-grained complexity of finding exact and approximate solutions to problems in P. Our main contribution is showing reductions from exact to approximate solution for a host of such problems. As one (notable)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lijie Chen , Shafi Goldwasser , Kaifeng Lyu , Guy N. Rothblum , Aviad Rubinstein

In this paper, we show $O(1.415^n)$-time and $O(1.190^n)$-space exact algorithms for 0-1 integer programs where constraints are linear equalities and coefficients are arbitrary real numbers. Our algorithms are quadratically faster than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Kenya Ueno

We propose a randomized method for solving linear programs with a large number of columns but a relatively small number of constraints. Since enumerating all the columns is usually unrealistic, such linear programs are commonly solved by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Yi-Chun Akchen , Velibor V. Mišić

Solving convex Semi-Infinite Programming (SIP) problems is challenging when the separation problem, i.e., the problem of finding the most violated constraint, is computationally hard. We propose to tackle this difficulty by solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Antoine Oustry , Martina Cerulli

Motivated by applications in production planning and storage allocation in hierarchical databases, we initiate the study of covering partially ordered items (CPO). Given a capacity $k \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, and a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ilan Doron-Arad , Guy Kortsarz , Joseph Naor , Baruch Schieber , Hadas Shachnai