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The present paper analyses and presents several improvements to the algorithm for finding the $(a,b)$-pairs of integers used in the $k$-ary reduction of the right-shift $k$-ary integer GCD algorithm. While the worst-case complexity of…
We propose a generalization of the Weierstrass iteration for over-constrained systems of equations and we prove that the proposed method is the Gauss-Newton iteration to find the nearest system which has at least $k$ common roots and which…
The Weber problem consists of finding a point in $\mathbbm{R}^n$ that minimizes the weighted sum of distances from $m$ points in $\mathbbm{R}^n$ that are not collinear. An application that motivated this problem is the optimal location of…
The SOR-like iteration method for solving the absolute value equations~(AVE) of finding a vector $x$ such that $Ax - |x| - b = 0$ with $\nu = \|A^{-1}\|_2 < 1$ is investigated. The convergence conditions of the SOR-like iteration method…
This paper presents a polynomial-time $1/2$-approximation algorithm for maximizing nonnegative $k$-submodular functions. This improves upon the previous $\max\{1/3, 1/(1+a)\}$-approximation by Ward and \v{Z}ivn\'y~(SODA'14), where…
We present a novel quantum storage algorithm for k binary vectors of dimension m into a superposition of a m qubit quantum state based on a permutation technique. We compare this algorithm to the storage algorithm proposed by Ventura and…
We present an optimization procedure for a seminal class of positive maps $\tau_{n,k}$ in the algebra of $n \times n$ complex matrices introduced and studied by Tanahasi and Tomiyama, Ando, Nakamura and Osaka. Recently, these maps were…
We present an iterative algorithm for calculating approximate greatest common divisor (GCD) of univariate polynomials with the real or the complex coefficients. For a given pair of polynomials and a degree, our algorithm finds a pair of…
The k-means algorithm is a well-known method for partitioning n points that lie in the d-dimensional space into k clusters. Its main features are simplicity and speed in practice. Theoretically, however, the best known upper bound on its…
In this paper we study Euclidean algorithms and the corresponding continued fractions for oriented linear Grassmanians $G(k,n)$. We propose two algorithms: Maximal Element Elimination algorithm and Minimal Element Elimination algorithm. The…
Consider a problem where 4k given vectors need to be partitioned into k clusters of four vectors each. A cluster of four vectors is called a quad, and the cost of a quad is the sum of the component-wise maxima of the four vectors in the…
This paper deals with the estimation of the modes of an univariate mixture when the number of components is known and when the component density are well separated. We propose an algorithm based on the minimization of the "kp" criterion we…
This article presents a validation of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. The proposed algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that combines primal and dual linear…
The \emph{top-$k$-sum} operator computes the sum of the largest $k$ components of a given vector. The Euclidean projection onto the top-$k$-sum sublevel set serves as a crucial subroutine in iterative methods to solve composite…
We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…
We consider the minimal k-grouping problem: given a graph G=(V,E) and a constant k, partition G into subgraphs of diameter no greater than k, such that the union of any two subgraphs has diameter greater than k. We give a silent…
In the past few years powerful generalizations to the Euclidean k-means problem have been made, such as Bregman clustering [7], co-clustering (i.e., simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of an input matrix) [9,18], and tensor…
We propose a modification of the GPGCD algorithm, which has been presented in our previous research, for calculating approximate greatest common divisor (GCD) of more than 2 univariate polynomials with real coefficients and a given degree.…
This paper presents an enhancement to Grover's search algorithm for instances where the number of items (or the size of the search problem) $N$ is not a power of 2. By employing an efficient algorithm for the preparation of uniform quantum…
This paper addresses the problem of finding the densest $k$-vertex subgraph in an arbitrary graph. This problem is NP-hard and has important applications in social network analysis, fraud detection, recommendation systems, and…