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In this paper, we investigate the trade-off between convergence rate and computational cost when minimizing a composite functional with proximal-gradient methods, which are popular optimisation tools in machine learning. We consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Pierre Machart , Sandrine Anthoine , Luca Baldassarre

It is a notorious open question whether integer programs (IPs), with an integer coefficient matrix $M$ whose subdeterminants are all bounded by a constant $\Delta$ in absolute value, can be solved in polynomial time. We answer this question…

Designing effective score functions in Conformal Prediction (CP) for time-series data remains challenging due to conservativeness and/or computational inefficiency. We propose Optimal Selection Conformal Prediction (OSCP), which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Boyu Pang , Kostas Margellos

We consider the ILP Feasibility problem: given an integer linear program $\{Ax = b, x\geq 0\}$, where $A$ is an integer matrix with $k$ rows and $\ell$ columns and $b$ is a vector of $k$ integers, we ask whether there exists…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Dušan Knop , Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

We develop an optimization framework for identifying ideal Mixed Binary Linear Programs (MBLP) which is linear when using known input data and nonconvex quadratic over parametric input data. These techniques are applied to various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Jamie Fravel , Robert Hildebrand

We consider integer programming problems $\max \{ c^T x : \mathcal{A} x = b, l \leq x \leq u, x \in \mathbb{Z}^{nt}\}$ where $\mathcal{A}$ has a (recursive) block-structure generalizing "$n$-fold integer programs" which recently received…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Christoph Hunkenschröder , Kim-Manuel Klein

Due to their importance in practice, dominating set problems in graphs have been greatly studied in past and different formulations of these problems are presented in literature. This paper's focus is on two problems: weakly convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Jozef Kratica , Vladimir Filipovic , Dragan Matic , Aleksandar Kartelj

We propose an adaptive confidence interval procedure (CIP) for the coefficients in the normal linear regression model. This procedure has a frequentist coverage rate that is constant as a function of the model parameters, yet provides…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-10 Peter D. Hoff , Chaoyu Yu

The Student-Project Allocation problem with preferences over Projects (SPA-P) involves sets of students, projects and lecturers, where the students and lecturers each have preferences over the projects. In this context, we typically seek a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-27 David Manlove , Duncan Milne , Sofiat Olaosebikan

On the occasion of the 20th Mixed Integer Program Workshop's computational competition, this work introduces a new approach for learning to solve MIPs online. Influence branching, a new graph-oriented variable selection strategy, is applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Paul Strang , Zacharie Alès , Côme Bissuel , Olivier Juan , Safia Kedad-Sidhoum , Emmanuel Rachelson

Linear Predictive Clustering (LPC) partitions samples based on shared linear relationships between feature and target variables, with numerous applications including marketing, medicine, and education. Greedy optimization methods, commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jiazhou Liang , Hassan Khurram , Scott Sanner

This paper presents PIQP, a high-performance toolkit for solving generic sparse quadratic programs (QP). Combining an infeasible Interior Point Method (IPM) with the Proximal Method of Multipliers (PMM), the algorithm can handle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Roland Schwan , Yuning Jiang , Daniel Kuhn , Colin N. Jones

We consider fractional online covering problems with $\ell_q$-norm objectives. The problem of interest is of the form $\min\{ f(x) \,:\, Ax\ge 1, x\ge 0\}$ where $f(x)=\sum_{e} c_e \|x(S_e)\|_{q_e} $ is the weighted sum of $\ell_q$-norms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

We present an efficient reduction from the Bounded integer programming (BIP) to the Subspace avoiding problem (SAP) in lattice theory. The reduction has some special properties with some interesting consequences. The first is the new upper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-08-12 Thân Quang Khoát

In this paper, we mainly study one class of convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with non-differentiable data. By dropping the differentiability assumption, we substitute gradients with subgradients obtained from KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

Linear Complementarity Problems (LCPs) with sufficient matrices form an important subclass of LCPs, and it remains a significant open question whether problems in this class can be solved in polynomial time. Kojima, Megiddo, Noma, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Marianna E. -Nagy , László A. Végh

In a large-scale and distributed matrix multiplication problem $C=A^{\intercal}B$, where $C\in\mathbb{R}^{r\times t}$, the coded computation plays an important role to effectively deal with "stragglers" (distributed computations that may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Sinong Wang , Jiashang Liu , Ness Shroff

In this work, an integer linear programming (ILP) based model is proposed for the computation of a minimal cost addition sequence for a given set of integers. Since exponents are additive under multiplication, the minimal length addition…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Muhammad Abbas , Oscar Gustafsson

We present a unifying framework for generating extended formulations for the polyhedral outer approximations used in algorithms for mixed-integer convex programming (MICP). Extended formulations lead to fewer iterations of outer…

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