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Biharmonic distance (\bd) is a powerful graph distance metric with many applications, including identifying critical links in road networks and mitigating over-squashing problem in \gnn. However, computing \bd\ is extremely difficult,…

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Analyzing large graph data is an essential part of many modern applications, such as social networks. Due to its large computational complexity, distributed processing is frequently employed. This requires graph data to be divided across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-12 YoungJoon Park , DongKyu Lee , Tien-Cuong Bui

We present a novel segmentation algorithm based on a hierarchical representation of images. The main contribution of this work is to explore the capabilities of the A Contrario reasoning when applied to the segmentation problem, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Juan Cardelino , Vicent Caselles , Marcelo Bertalmio , Gregory Randall

It is demonstrated how linear computational time and storage efficient approaches can be adopted when analyzing very large data sets. More importantly, interpretation is aided and furthermore, basic processing is easily supported. Such…

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Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

We propose Partition Dimensions Across (PDX), a data layout for vectors (e.g., embeddings) that, similar to PAX [6], stores multiple vectors in one block, using a vertical layout for the dimensions (Figure 1). PDX accelerates exact and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Leonardo Kuffo , Elena Krippner , Peter Boncz

The growing use of neuroimaging technologies generates a massive amount of biomedical data that exhibit high dimensionality. Tensor-based analysis of brain imaging data has been proved quite effective in exploiting their multiway nature.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Christos Chatzichristos , Eleftherios Kofidis , Giannis Kopsinis , Sergios Theodoridis

Distributed systems that manage and process graph-structured data internally solve a graph partitioning problem to minimize their communication overhead and query run-time. Besides computational complexity -- optimal graph partitioning is…

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Cut generation and lifting are key components for the performance of state-of-the-art mathematical programming solvers. This work proposes a new general cut-and-lift procedure that exploits the combinatorial structure of 0-1 problems via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Margarita P. Castro , Andre A. Cire , J. Christopher Beck

Approaches based on Binary decision diagrams (BDDs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art results for multiobjective integer programming problems. The variable ordering used in constructing BDDs can have a significant impact on their size…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Rahul Patel , Elias B. Khalil

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is the canonical approach for understanding the behavior of physical systems. However, large scale solutions of PDEs using state of the art discretization techniques remains an expensive…

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In the last decade, decision diagrams (DDs) have been the basis for a large array of novel approaches for modeling and solving optimization problems. Many techniques now use DDs as a key tool to achieve state-of-the-art performance within…

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The balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) problem is a difficult combinatorial problem with a large number of symmetries, which add complexity to its resolution. In this paper, we propose a dual (integer) problem representation that…

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The boundaries of electoral constituencies for assembly and parliamentary seats are drafted using a process referred to as delimitation, which ensures fair and equal representation of all citizens. The current delimitation exercise suffers…

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Many real-world decision-theoretic planning problems can be naturally modeled with discrete and continuous state Markov decision processes (DC-MDPs). While previous work has addressed automated decision-theoretic planning for DCMDPs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Scott Sanner , Karina Valdivia Delgado , Leliane Nunes de Barros

A number of problems in relational Artificial Intelligence can be viewed as Stochastic Constraint Optimization Problems (SCOPs). These are constraint optimization problems that involve objectives or constraints with a stochastic component.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Anna L. D. Latour , Behrouz Babaki , Siegfried Nijssen

This short note presents some variant schemes of boundary variation diminishing (BVD) algorithm in one dimension with the results of numerical tests for linear advection equation to facilitate practical use. In spite of being presented in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Xi Deng , Bin Xie , Feng Xiao

Tensors are ubiquitous in science and engineering and tensor factorization approaches have become important tools for the characterization of higher order structure. Factorizations includes the outer-product rank Canonical Polyadic…

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In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic set covering problem (PSCP) in which the right-hand side is a binary random vector and the covering constraint is required to be satisfied with a prespecified probability. We consider the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Wei Lv , Wei-Kun Chen , Yi-Long Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

The numerical solution of large-scale PDEs, such as those occurring in data-driven applications, unavoidably require powerful parallel computers and tailored parallel algorithms to make the best possible use of them. In fact, considerations…

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