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Analyzing big data in a highly dynamic environment becomes more and more critical because of the increasingly need for end-to-end processing of this data. Modern data flows are quite complex and there are not efficient, cost-based,…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Georgia Kougka , Anastasios Gounaris

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with two distinguished vertices $s,t\in V$ and an integer $L$, an {\em $L$-bounded flow} is a flow between $s$ and $t$ that can be decomposed into paths of length at most $L$. In the {\em maximum $L$-bounded flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Kateřina Altmanová , Petr Kolman , Jan Voborník

The classical optimal power flow problem optimizes the power flow in a power network considering the associated flow and operating constraints. In this paper, we investigate optimal power flow in the context of utility-maximizing demand…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Majid Khonji , Chi-Kin Chau , Khaled Elbassioni

Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-01 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Yuanjun Gao , John P. Cunningham

Polynomial inequalities lie at the heart of many mathematical disciplines. In this paper, we consider the fundamental computational task of automatically searching for proofs of polynomial inequalities. We adopt the framework of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Alhussein Fawzi , Mateusz Malinowski , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

We propose an algorithm for reduction of the problem of maximization of fraction of two functionals to the equivalent procedure including maximization of difference between the functionals and the solution of an equation of scalar unknown.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Ivan P Smirnov

In this paper we study flow problems on temporal networks, where edge capacities and travel times change over time. We consider a network with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges where the capacity and length of each edge is a piecewise constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kristin Sheridan , Shuchi Chawla

In 2010s Fleiner introduced a notion of stable flows in directed networks and showed that such a flow always exists and can be found by use of a reduction to the stable allocation problem due to Baiou and Balinski. Recently Cseh and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alexander Karzanov

Maxflow is a fundamental problem in graph theory and combinatorial optimisation, used to determine the maximum flow from a source node to a sink node in a flow network. It finds applications in diverse domains, including computer networks,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shruthi Kannappan , Ashwina Kumar , Rupesh Nasre

Mixed-integer optimisation problems can be computationally challenging. Here, we introduce and analyse two efficient algorithms with a specific sequential design that are aimed at dealing with sampled problems within this class. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

General factors are a generalization of matchings. Given a graph $G$ with a set $\pi(v)$ of feasible degrees, called a degree constraint, for each vertex $v$ of $G$, the general factor problem is to find a (spanning) subgraph $F$ of $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Shuai Shao , Stanislav Živný

We describe a dynamic programming algorithm for exact counting and exact uniform sampling of matrices with specified row and column sums. The algorithm runs in polynomial time when the column sums are bounded. Binary or non-negative integer…

Computation · Statistics 2011-04-05 Jeffrey W. Miller , Matthew T. Harrison

We propose a new algorithm to obtain max flow for the multicommodity flow. This algorithm utilizes the max-flow min-cut theorem and the well known labeling algorithm due to Ford and Fulkerson [1]. We proceed as follows: We select one…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Dhananjay P. Mehendale

The phase space flow of a dynamical system leading to the solution of Linear Programming (LP) problems is explored as an example of complexity analysis in an analog computation framework. An ensemble of LP problems with $n$ variables and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asa Ben-Hur , Joshua Feinberg , Shmuel Fishman , Hava T. Siegelmann

We study a class of combinatorial scheduling problems characterized by a particular type of constraint often associated with electrical power or gas energy. This constraint appears in several practical applications and is expressed as a sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Khaled Elbassioni , Areg Karapetyan , Majid Khonji

This document introduces a strategy to solve linear optimization problems. The strategy is based on the bounding condition each constraint produces on each one of the problem's dimension. The solution of a linear optimization problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Gerardo L. Febres

The purpose of this text is to provide an accessible introduction to a set of recently developed algorithms for factorizing matrices. These new algorithms attain high practical speed by reducing the dimensionality of intermediate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Diffusion and flow-matching have emerged as powerful methodologies for generative modeling, with remarkable success in capturing complex data distributions and enabling flexible guidance at inference time. Many downstream applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zeyang Li , Kaveh Alim , Navid Azizan

We investigate a family of approximate multi-step proximal point methods, framed as implicit linear discretizations of gradient flow. The resulting methods are multi-step proximal point methods, with similar computational cost in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Yushen Huang , Yifan Sun

The feasibility pump algorithm is an efficient primal heuristic for finding feasible solutions to mixed-integer programming problems. The algorithm suffers mainly from fast convergence to local optima. In this paper, we investigate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Nicolas Pradignac , Maliheh Aramon , Helmut G. Katzgraber