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In this paper we introduce a method for solving linear and nonlinear scattering problems for wave equations using a new hybrid approach. This new approach consists of a reformulation of the governing equations into a form that can be solved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Aihua Lin , Anastasiia Kuzmina , Per Kristen Jakobsen

We provide a new constant factor approximation algorithm for the (connected) distance-$r$ dominating set problem on graph classes of bounded expansion. Classes of bounded expansion include many familiar classes of sparse graphs such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

BDDs are representations of a Boolean expression in the form of a directed acyclic graph. BDDs are widely used in several fields, particularly in model checking and hardware verification. There are several implementations for BDD…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Luigi Capogrosso , Luca Geretti , Marco Cristani , Franco Fummi , Tiziano Villa

Many practical applications require solving an optimization over large and high-dimensional data sets, which makes these problems hard to solve and prohibitively time consuming. In this paper, we propose a parallel distributed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Elad Gilboa , Phani Chavali , Peng Yang , Arye Nehorai

We propose a method combining boundary integral equations and neural networks (BINet) to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) in both bounded and unbounded domains. Unlike existing solutions that directly operate over original PDEs,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Guochang Lin , Pipi Hu , Fukai Chen , Xiang Chen , Junqing Chen , Jun Wang , Zuoqiang Shi

Two-level logic minimization is a central problem in logic synthesis, and has applications in reliability analysis and automated reasoning. This paper represents a method of minimizing Boolean sum of products function with binary decision…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Debajit Sensarma , Subhashis Banerjee , Krishnendu Basuli , Saptarshi Naskar , Samar Sen Sarma

Decision Diagrams (DDs) have emerged as a powerful tool for discrete optimization, with rapidly growing adoption. DDs are directed acyclic layered graphs; restricted DDs are a generalized greedy heuristic for finding feasible solutions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Isaac Rudich , Louis-Martin Rousseau

Safety-critical controllers of complex systems are hard to construct manually. Automated approaches such as controller synthesis or learning provide a tempting alternative but usually lack explainability. To this end, learning decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Debraj Chakraborty , Clemens Dubslaff , Sudeep Kanav , Jan Kretinsky , Christoph Weinhuber

We propose a hybrid reinforcement and self-supervised learning framework for accelerating generalized Benders decomposition (GBD). In this framework, a graph based reinforcement learning agent operates on a bipartite representation of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Bernard T. Agyeman , Zhe Li , Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

For the exploration of large state spaces, symbolic search using binary decision diagrams (BDDs) can save huge amounts of memory and computation time. State sets are represented and modified by accessing and manipulating their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-25 Stefan Edelkamp , Peter Kissmann , Álvaro Torralba

We introduce a general method for relaxing decision diagrams that allows one to bound job sequencing problems by solving a Lagrangian dual problem on a relaxed diagram. We also provide guidelines for identifying problems for which this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-21 J. N. Hooker

The branch-and-bound algorithm based on decision diagrams introduced by Bergman et al. in 2016 is a framework for solving discrete optimization problems with a dynamic programming formulation. It works by compiling a series of bounded-width…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Vianney Coppé , Xavier Gillard , Pierre Schaus

In this paper we propose and analyze a distributed algorithm for achieving globally optimal decisions, either estimation or detection, through a self-synchronization mechanism among linearly coupled integrators initialized with local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa , Loreto Pescosolido

Logic-based methods for explaining neural network decisions offer formal guarantees of correctness and non-redundancy, but they often suffer from high computational costs, especially for large networks. In this work, we improve the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ronaldo Gomes , Jairo Ribeiro , Luiz Queiroz , Thiago Alves Rocha

In this paper, we present BERN-NN as an efficient tool to perform bound propagation of Neural Networks (NNs). Bound propagation is a critical step in wide range of NN model checkers and reachability analysis tools. Given a bounded input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wael Fatnassi , Haitham Khedr , Valen Yamamoto , Yasser Shoukry

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be phrased in the language of constraint satisfaction problems. We introduce a graph neural network architecture for solving such optimization problems. The architecture is generic; it works for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jan Toenshoff , Martin Ritzert , Hinrikus Wolf , Martin Grohe

We propose enforcing constraints on Model-Based Diffusion by introducing emerging barrier functions inspired by interior point methods. We demonstrate that the standard Model-Based Diffusion algorithm can lead to catastrophic performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Raghav Mishra , Ian R. Manchester

By employing non-equispaced grid points near boundaries, boundary-optimized upwind finite-difference operators of orders up to nine are developed. The boundary closures are constructed within a diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Ken Mattsson , David Niemelä , Andrew R. Winters

We follow up on the idea of Lars Arge to rephrase the Reduce and Apply procedures of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) as iterative I/O-efficient algorithms. We identify multiple avenues to simplify and improve the performance of his proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Steffan Christ Sølvsten , Jaco van de Pol , Anna Blume Jakobsen , Mathias Weller Berg Thomasen

The presence of symmetries of binary programs typically degrade the performance of branch-and-bound solvers. In this article, we derive efficient variable fixing algorithms to discard symmetric solutions from the search space based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jasper van Doornmalen , Christopher Hojny