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The paper describes two iterative algorithms for solving general systems of M simultaneous linear algebraic equations (SLAE) with real matrices of coefficients. The system can be determined, underdetermined, and overdetermined. Linearly…
We consider the nonlinear integer programming problem of minimizing a quadratic function over the integer points in variable dimension satisfying a system of linear inequalities. We show that when the Graver basis of the matrix defining the…
We consider the problem of linearizing a pseudo-Boolean function $f : \{0,1\}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ by means of $k$ Boolean functions. Such a linearization yields an integer linear programming formulation with only $k$ auxiliary variables. This…
Given symmetric matrices $A_0, A_1, \ldots, A_n$ of size $m$ with rational entries, the set of real vectors $x = (x_1, \ldots, x_n)$ such that the matrix $A_0 + x_1 A_1 + \cdots + x_n A_n$ has non-negative eigenvalues is called a…
We study a bi-objective optimization problem, which for a given positive real number $n$ aims to find a vector $X = \{x_0,\cdots,x_{k-1}\} \in \mathbb{R}^{k}_{\ge 0}$ such that $\sum_{i=0}^{k-1} x_i = n$, minimizing the maximum of $k$…
We propose a vector linear programming formulation for a non-stationary, finite-horizon Markov decision process with vector-valued rewards. Pareto efficient policies are shown to correspond to efficient solutions of the linear program, and…
We present the notion of asymptotically non-terminating initial variable values for linear loop programs. Those values are directly associated to initial variable values for which the corresponding program does not terminate. Our…
The theory of $n$-fold integer programming has been recently emerging as an important tool in parameterized complexity. The input to an $n$-fold integer program (IP) consists of parameter $A$, dimension $n$, and numerical data of binary…
We consider a setting in which it is desired to find an optimal complex vector $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{C}^N$ that satisfies $\mathcal{A}(\mathbf{x}) \approx \mathbf{b}$ in a least-squares sense, where $\mathbf{b} \in \mathbb{C}^M$ is a data…
We consider a generalization of polynomial programs: algebraic programs, which are optimization or feasibility problems with algebraic objectives or constraints. Algebraic functions are defined as zeros of multivariate polynomials. They are…
Given a linear unknown system with $m$ inputs, $p$ outputs, $n$ dimensional state vector, and $q$ dimensional ecosystem, the problem of the adaptive optimal output regulation of this system boils down to iteratively solving a set of linear…
In this paper we generalize N-fold integer programs and two-stage integer programs with N scenarios to N-fold 4-block decomposable integer programs. We show that for fixed blocks but variable N, these integer programs are polynomial-time…
We presented a separation based optimization algorithm which, rather than optimization the entire variables altogether, This would allow us to employ: 1) a class of nonlinear functions with three variables and 2) a convex quadratic…
Polynomial optimization problems over binary variables can be expressed as integer programs using a linearization with extra monomials in addition to those arising in the given polynomial. We characterize when such a linearization yields an…
The problem of fitting experimental data to a given model function $f(t; p_1,p_2,\dots,p_N)$ is conventionally solved numerically by methods such as that of Levenberg-Marquardt, which are based on approximating the Chi-squared measure of…
In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…
The paper covers a formulation of the inverse quadratic programming problem in terms of unconstrained optimization where it is required to find the unknown parameters (the matrix of the quadratic form and the vector of the quasi-linear part…
This paper presents algorithms for solving multiobjective integer programming problems. The algorithm uses Barvinok's rational functions of the polytope that defines the feasible region and provides as output the entire set of nondominated…
In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing a convex function f over a convex set, with the extra constraint that some variables must be integer. This problem, even when f is a piecewise linear function, is NP-hard. We study an…