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A programming tactic involving polyhedra is reported that has been widely applied in the polyhedral analysis of (constraint) logic programs. The method enables the computations of convex hulls that are required for polyhedral analysis to be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Florence Benoy , Andy King , Fred Mesnard

We analyze the correctness of an O(n log n) time divide-and-conquer algorithm for the convex hull problem when each input point is a location determined by a normal distribution. We show that the algorithm finds the convex hull of such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-08 F. Betul Atalay , Sorelle A. Friedler , Dianna Xu

In an ordinary feature selection procedure, a set of important features is obtained by solving an optimization problem such as the Lasso regression problem, and we expect that the obtained features explain the data well. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-16 Satoshi Hara , Takanori Maehara

We develop a sketching algorithm to find the point on the convex hull of a dataset, closest to a query point outside it. Studying the convex hull of datasets can provide useful information about their geometric structure and their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

This is the first in a series of papers which deal with the development of novel methods for solving a system of linear algebraic equations with a time complexity lower than existing algorithms. The NxN system of linear equations, Ax = b,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Vilas Patwardhan

We present a novel deep learning approach to approximate the solution of large, sparse, symmetric, positive-definite linear systems of equations. These systems arise from many problems in applied science, e.g., in numerical methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ayano Kaneda , Osman Akar , Jingyu Chen , Victoria Kala , David Hyde , Joseph Teran

An incremental approach for computation of convex hull for data points in two-dimensions is presented. The algorithm is not output-sensitive and costs a time that is linear in the size of data points at input. Graham's scan is applied only…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Debashis Mukherjee

This paper studies binary quadratic programs in which the objective is defined by a Euclidean distance matrix, subject to a general polyhedral constraint set. This class of nonconcave maximisation problems includes the capacitated,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Hoa T. Bui , Sandy Spiers , Ryan Loxton

Recently, motivated by the rapid increase of the data size in various applications, Monemizadeh [APPROX'23] and Driemel, Monemizadeh, Oh, Staals, and Woodruff [SoCG'25] studied geometric problems in the setting where the only access to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 T. Schibler , J. Xue , J. Zhu

The present paper is concerned with a recursive algorithm as a preprocessing step to find the convex hull of $n$ random points uniformly distributed in the plane. For such a set of points, it is shown that eliminating all but $O(\log n)$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mohammad Heydari , Ashkan Khalifeh

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in general position, and let $RCH(P)$ be the rectilinear convex hull of $P$. In this paper we obtain an optimal $O(n\log n)$-time and $O(n)$-space algorithm to compute $RCH(P)$. We also…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Pablo Pérez-Lantero , Carlos Seara , Jorge Urrutia

In the paper "Linear time algorithm to cover and hit a set of line segments optimally by two axis-parallel squares", TCS Volume 769 (2019), pages 63--74, the LHIT problem is proposed as follows: For a given set of non-intersecting line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Sanjib Sadhu , Xiaozhou He , Sasanka Roy , Subhas C. Nandy , Suchismita Roy

Given a finite set of points $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, we would like to find a small subset $S \subseteq P$ such that the convex hull of $S$ approximately contains $P$. More formally, every point in $P$ is within distance $\epsilon$ from…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Avrim Blum , Vladimir Braverman , Ananya Kumar , Harry Lang , Lin F. Yang

In this paper we present a new algorithm for solving linear programs that requires only $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{rank(A)}L)$ iterations to solve a linear program with $m$ constraints, $n$ variables, and constraint matrix $A$, and bit complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

Many classical algorithms are known for computing the convex hull of a set of $n$ point in $\mathbb{R}^2$ using $O(n)$ space. For large point sets, whose size exceeds the size of the working space, these algorithms cannot be directly used.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Martin Farach-Colton , Meng Li , Meng-Tsung Tsai

A new algorithm is presented for computing a direct solution to a system of consistent linear equations. It produces a minimum norm particular solution, a generalized inverse (of type {124}), and a null space projection operator. In…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Michael F. Zimmer

This article describes a method to compute successive convex approximations of the convex hull of a set of points in R^n that are the solutions to a system of polynomial equations over the reals. The method relies on sums of squares of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-27 João Gouveia , Rekha R. Thomas

This paper presents an alternate choice of computing the convex hulls (CHs) for planar point sets. We firstly discard the interior points and then sort the remaining vertices by x- / y- coordinates separately, and later create a group…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Gang Mei , John C. Tipper , Nengxiong Xu

A new algorithm for the determination of the relative convex hull in the plane of a simple polygon A with respect to another simple polygon B which contains A, is proposed. The relative convex hull is also known as geodesic convex hull, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-02 P. Wiederhold , H. Reyes