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We consider optimization problems involving the multiplication of variable matrices to be selected from a given family, which might be a discrete set, a continuous set or a combination of both. Such nonlinear, and possibly discrete,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Burak Kocuk

We identify a sufficient condition, treewidth-pliability, that gives a polynomial-time algorithm for an arbitrarily good approximation of the optimal value in a large class of Max-2-CSPs parameterised by the class of allowed constraint…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Miguel Romero , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

We aim to find orientations of mixed graphs optimizing the total reachability, a problem that has applications in causality and biology. For given a digraph $D$, we use $P(D)$ for the set of ordered pairs of distinct vertices in $V(D)$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Florian Hörsch

We study the computational complexity of the optimal transport problem that evaluates the Wasserstein distance between the distributions of two K-dimensional discrete random vectors. The best known algorithms for this problem run in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bahar Taşkesen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn , Karthik Natarajan

The NP-hard maximum value preordering problem is both a joint relaxation and a hybrid of the clique partition problem (a clustering problem) and the partial ordering problem. Toward approximate solutions and lower bounds, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jannik Irmai , Maximilian Moeller , Bjoern Andres

The complexity of classical computational problems in graph classes defined by forbidding induced subgraphs is one of the central topics of algorithmic graph theory. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the complexity of such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Paweł Rafał Bieliński , Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski

Many discrete optimization problems amount to selecting a feasible set of edges of least weight. We consider in this paper the context of spatial graphs where the positions of the vertices are uncertain and belong to known uncertainty sets.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

We discuss the computational complexity of special cases of the 3-dimensional (axial) assignment problem where the elements are points in a Cartesian space and where the cost coefficients are the perimeters of the corresponding triangles…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Ante Ćustić , Bettina Klinz , Gerhard J. Woeginger

The Wiener index of a network, introduced by the chemist Harry Wiener, is the sum of distances between all pairs of nodes in the network. This index, originally used in chemical graph representations of the non-hydrogen atoms of a molecule,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-03 A. Karim Abu-Affash , Paz Carmi , Ori Luwisch , Joseph S. B. Mitchell

The problem of finding the maximum-weight, planar subgraph of a finite, simple graph with nonnegative real edge weights is well known in industrial and electrical engineering, systems biology, sociology and finance. As the problem is known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Diane Castonguay , Elisângela Silva Dias , Leslie Richard Foulds

In the total matching problem, one is given a graph $G$ with weights on the vertices and edges. The goal is to find a maximum weight set of vertices and edges that is the non-incident union of a stable set and a matching. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Luca Ferrarini , Samuel Fiorini , Stefan Kober , Yelena Yuditsky

In this paper, we present a polynomial-sized linear programming formulation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The proposed linear program is a network flow-based model. Hence, it provides for the solution of the QAP in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moustapha Diaby

An important application of distance geometry to biochemistry studies the embeddings of the vertices of a weighted graph in the three-dimensional Euclidean space such that the edge weights are equal to the Euclidean distances between…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Leo Liberti , Carlile Lavor , Benoit Masson , Antonio Mucherino

Rapid technological advances in the domain of Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) pave the way for novel methods for power management in systems of wireless devices and recent research works have already started considering algorithmic solutions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Ioannis Katsidimas , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Theofanis P. Raptis , Christoforos Raptopoulos

The Wiener index of a graph is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices, it has been one of the main descriptors that correlate achemical compound's molecular graph with experimentally gathered data regarding the compound's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Hua Wang

We consider the quadratic optimization problem $\max_{x \in C}\ x^T Q x + q^T x$, where $C\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ is a box and $r := \mathrm{rank}(Q)$ is assumed to be $\mathcal{O}(1)$ (i.e., fixed). We show that this case can be solved in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Milan Hladík , Michal Černý , Miroslav Rada

In a graph G, a dissociation set is a subset of vertices which induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1. Finding a dissociation set of maximum cardinality in a graph is NP-hard even for bipartite graphs and is called the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Jianhua Tu , Lei Zhang , Junfeng Du , Rongling Lang

For a graph G with real weights assigned to the vertices (edges), the MAX H-SUBGRAPH problem is to find an H-subgraph of G with maximum total weight, if one exists. The all-pairs MAX H-SUBGRAPH problem is to find for every pair of vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Virginia Vassilevska , Ryan Williams , Raphael Yuster

Finding the common structural features of two molecules is a fundamental task in cheminformatics. Most drugs are small molecules, which can naturally be interpreted as graphs. Hence, the task is formalized as maximum common subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Andre Droschinsky , Nils Kriege , Petra Mutzel

Wiener index, defined as the sum of distances between all unordered pairs of vertices, is one of the most popular molecular descriptors. It is well known that among 2-vertex connected graphs on $n\ge 3$ vertices, the cycle $C_n$ attains the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Stéphane Bessy , François Dross , Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski