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Multidimensional packing problems generalize the classical packing problems such as Bin Packing, Multiprocessor Scheduling by allowing the jobs to be $d$-dimensional vectors. While the approximability of the scalar problems is well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Sai Sandeep

In this paper we obtain improved iteration complexities for solving $\ell_p$ regression. We provide methods which given any full-rank $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d}$ with $n \geq d$, $b \in \mathbb{R}^n$, and $p \geq 2$ solve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Arun Jambulapati , Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

In this paper we propose an improved approximation scheme for the Vector Bin Packing problem (VBP), based on the combination of (near-)optimal solution of the Linear Programming (LP) relaxation and a greedy (modified first-fit) heuristic.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Chetan S Rao , Jeffrey John Geevarghese , Karthik Rajan

This paper primarily focuses on computing the Euclidean projection of a vector onto the $\ell_{p}$ ball in which $p\in(0,1)$. Such a problem emerges as the core building block in statistical machine learning and signal processing tasks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Xiangyu Yang , Jiashan Wang , Hao Wang

We show a number of fine-grained hardness results for the Closest Vector Problem in the $\ell_p$ norm ($\mathrm{CVP}_p$), and its approximate and non-uniform variants. First, we show that $\mathrm{CVP}_p$ cannot be solved in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Divesh Aggarwal , Huck Bennett , Alexander Golovnev , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

In this note, we establish superiority of the so-called copositive bound over a bound suggested by Nesterov for the quadratic problem to minimize a quadratic form over the l1-ball. We illustrate the improvement by simulation results. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Immanuel M. Bomze , Florian Frommlet , Martin Rubey

In this paper we study the fine-grained complexity of finding exact and approximate solutions to problems in P. Our main contribution is showing reductions from exact to approximate solution for a host of such problems. As one (notable)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lijie Chen , Shafi Goldwasser , Kaifeng Lyu , Guy N. Rothblum , Aviad Rubinstein

The complexity of representing a polynomial by a Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Program (ROABP) is highly dependent on the chosen variable ordering. Bhargava et al. prove that finding the optimal ordering is NP-hard, and provide…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-17 C. Ramya , Pratik Shastri

Extending the methods developed in the author's previous paper and using adapted coordinate systems in two variables, an L^p boundedness theorem is proven for maximal operators over hypersurfaces in R^3 when p > 2. When the best possible p…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-08-25 Michael Greenblatt

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems whose objective functions involve powers of random variables. For example, consider the classic Stochastic lp Load Balancing Problem (SLBp): There are $m$ machines and $n$ jobs, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Marco Molinaro

We study a family of problems, called \prob{Maximum Solution}, where the objective is to maximise a linear goal function over the feasible integer assignments to a set of variables subject to a set of constraints. When the domain is Boolean…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Peter Jonsson , Fredrik Kuivinen , Gustav Nordh

We show that over the field of complex numbers, \emph{every} homogeneous polynomial of degree $d$ can be approximated (in the border complexity sense) by a depth-$3$ arithmetic circuit of top fan-in at most $d+1$. This is quite surprising…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Mrinal Kumar

Building on existing $hp$-adaptive algorithms driven by equilibrated-flux estimators from [ESAIM Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 57 (2023), 329--366] and the references therein, we propose a novel $h$-adaptive algorithm for a fixed polynomial…

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We study decision rule approximations for generic multi-stage robust linear optimization problems. We consider linear decision rules for the case when the objective coefficients, the recourse matrices, and the right-hand sides are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Guanglin Xu , Grani A. Hanasusanto

Given a weighted graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and a positive integer $p$, the Hamiltonian $p$-median problem consists in finding $p$ cycles of minimum total weight such that each vertex of $G$ is in exactly one cycle. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dilson Lucas Pereira , Michel Wan Der Maas Soares

We show that for all $\varepsilon>0$, for sufficiently large $q\in\mathbb{N}$ power of $2$, for all $\delta>0$, it is NP-hard to distinguish whether a given $2$-Prover-$1$-Round projection game with alphabet size $q$ has value at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dor Minzer , Kai Zhe Zheng

We establish a priori error bounds for monotone stabilized finite element discretizations of stationary second-order mean field games (MFG) on Lipschitz polytopal domains. Under suitable hypotheses, we prove that the approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We establish sample complexity results for stochastic optimization over the integers, especially with a view to understand the complexity with respect to the corresponding continuous optimization problem. We show that integer optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hongyu Cheng , Yinghao Zheng , Marco Molinaro , Amitabh Basu

Numerical homogenization aims to efficiently and accurately approximate the solution space of an elliptic partial differential operator with arbitrarily rough coefficients in a $d$-dimensional domain. The application of the inverse operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Moritz Hauck , Daniel Peterseim

The \(L_1/L_2\) norm ratio has gained significant attention as a measure of sparsity due to three merits: sharper approximation to the \(L_0\) norm compared to the \(L_1\) norm, being parameter-free and scale-invariant, and exceptional…

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