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Matching one set of objects to another is a ubiquitous task in machine learning and computer vision that often reduces to some form of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP). The QAP is known to be notoriously hard, both in theory and in…
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Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a practical combinatorial optimization problems that has been studied for several years. Since it is NP-hard, solving large problem instances of QAP is challenging. Although heuristics can find…
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The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem with applications in many areas including logistics and manufacturing. QAP is known to be NP-hard, a computationally challenging problem, which…
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The application of the Reformulation Linearization Technique (RLT) to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) leads to a tight linear relaxation with huge dimensions that is hard to solve. Previous works found in the literature show that…
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Quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization and finds numerous applications in operation research, computer vision, and pattern recognition. However, it is a very well-known NP-hard problem to…
Matching problems on 3D shapes and images are challenging as they are frequently formulated as combinatorial quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) with permutation matrix constraints, which are NP-hard. In this work, we address such problems…
The bilinear assignment problem (BAP) is a generalization of the well-known quadratic assignment problem (QAP). In this paper, we study the problem from the computational analysis point of view. Several classes of neigborhood structures are…
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