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In the PATH COVER problem, one asks to cover the vertices of a graph using the smallest possible number of (not necessarily disjoint) paths. While the variant where the paths need to be pairwise vertex-disjoint, which we call PATH…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Florent Foucaud , Atrayee Majumder , Tobias Mömke , Aida Roshany-Tabrizi

This paper deals with simultaneously fast and in-place algorithms for formulae where the result has to be linearly accumulated: some output variables are also input variables, linked by a linear dependency. Fundamental examples include the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Bruno Grenet

We present an $n\Delta^{O(k^2)}$ time algorithm to obtain an optimal solution for $1$-dimensional cutting stock problem: the bin packing problem of packing $n$ items onto unit capacity bins under the restriction that the number of item…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We study the density estimation problem defined as follows: given $k$ distributions $p_1, \ldots, p_k$ over a discrete domain $[n]$, as well as a collection of samples chosen from a ``query'' distribution $q$ over $[n]$, output $p_i$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anders Aamand , Alexandr Andoni , Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , Sandeep Silwal , Haike Xu

Given a set of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane, such that just $k$ points are strictly inside the convex hull of the whole set, we want to find the shortest tour visiting every point. The fastest known algorithm for the version when $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Pawel Gawrychowski , Damian Rusak

This work studies rearrangement problems involving the sorting of robots or objects in stack-like containers, which can be accessed only from one side. Two scenarios are considered: one where every robot or object needs to reach a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Shuai D. Han , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Kostas E. Bekris , Jingjin Yu

The \Problem{knapsack} problem is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. It has been studied extensively from theoretical as well as practical perspectives as it is one of the most well-known NP-hard problems. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Saeed Seddighin , Cliff Stein

We present a pseudopolynomial-time algorithm for the Knapsack problem that has running time $\widetilde{O}(n + t\sqrt{p_{\max}})$, where $n$ is the number of items, $t$ is the knapsack capacity, and $p_{\max}$ is the maximum item profit.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Karl Bringmann , Anita Dürr , Adam Polak

Although many machine learning algorithms involve learning subspaces with particular characteristics, optimizing a parameter matrix that is constrained to represent a subspace can be challenging. One solution is to use Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Stephen Giguere , Francisco Garcia , Sridhar Mahadevan

The suffix array and the suffix tree are the two most fundamental data structures for string processing. For a length-$n$ text, however, they use $\Theta(n \log n)$ bits of space, which is often too costly. To address this, Grossi and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka

In this paper, we propose a learning algorithm that speeds up the search in task and motion planning problems. Our algorithm proposes solutions to three different challenges that arise in learning to improve planning efficiency: what to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Beomjoon Kim , Zi Wang , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez

An algorithm is presented that solves the Minimum Dominating Set problem exactly using polynomial space based on dynamic programming for a tree decomposition. A direct application of dynamic programming based on a tree decomposition would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer

The problem of task scheduling with communication delays is strongly NP-hard. State-space search algorithms such as A* have been shown to be a promising approach to solving small to medium sized instances optimally. A recently proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Michael Orr , Oliver Sinnen

Orthogonality constraints naturally appear in many machine learning problems, from principal component analysis to robust neural network training. They are usually solved using Riemannian optimization algorithms, which minimize the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Pierre Ablin , Simon Vary , Bin Gao , P. -A. Absil

Given a set of $n$ point robots inside a simple polygon $P$, the task is to move the robots from their starting positions to their target positions along their shortest paths, while the mutual visibility of these robots is preserved.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rusul J. Alsaedi , Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen

In this paper we propose a method for applications oriented input design for linear systems under time-domain constraints on the amplitude of input and output signals. The method guarantees a desired control performance for the estimated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-28 A. Ebadat , B. Wahlberg , H. Hjalmarsson , C. R. Rojas , P. Hagg , C. A. Larsson

Quantum optimization algorithms promise advantages for difficult problems but are costly to simulate and analyze on classical machines. Recently, constrained quantum optimization has been investigated through the lens of Quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

Convex hull data structures are fundamental in computational geometry. We study insertion-only data structures, supporting various containment and intersection queries. When $P$ is sorted by $x$- or $y$-coordinate, convex hulls can be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ivor van der Hoog , Henrik Reinstädtler , Eva Rotenberg

Faced with massive data, is it possible to trade off (statistical) risk, and (computational) space and time? This challenge lies at the heart of large-scale machine learning. Using k-means clustering as a prototypical unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-04 Mario Lucic , Mesrob I. Ohannessian , Amin Karbasi , Andreas Krause

We give a more space-efficient implementation of adaptive mergesort: Virtual-Memory Powersort. Using internal buffering techniques, we significantly reduce the memory consumption of the algorithm; specifically, for sorting $n$ objects the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Finn Moltmann , Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Sebastian Wild