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We provide an explicit algorithm to solve the idempotent analogue of the discrete Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transportation problem with the usual real number field replaced by the tropical (max-plus) semiring, in which addition is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Sergio Mayorga , Eugene Stepanov , Pedro Barrios

As the development of distributed systems progresses, more and more challenges arise and the need for developing optimized systems and for optimizing existing systems from multiple perspectives becomes more stringent. In this paper I…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-03-21 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

We consider optimization problems with polynomial inequality constraints in non-commuting variables. These non-commuting variables are viewed as bounded operators on a Hilbert space whose dimension is not fixed and the associated polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-18 Stefano Pironio , Miguel Navascues , Antonio Acin

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of determining the existence of multiple equilibria in economic models. We propose a general and complete approach for identifying multiplicities of equilibria in semi-algebraic economies,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Xiaoliang Li , Dongming Wang

We propose new variational principles for traffic assignment problems. So to find equillibrium we have to solve large-scale convex optimization problem of special type. We propose some kind of "algebra" on different models and corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Alexander Gasnikov

Some results on singularities of plurisubharmonic functions are put into the context of tropical mathematics.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Alexander Rashkovskii

An algorithm which computes a solution of a set optimization problem is provided. The graph of the objective map is assumed to be given by finitely many linear inequalities. A solution is understood to be a set of points in the domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Andreas Löhne , Carola Schrage

We consider the problem of approximating the solution of variational problems subject to the constraint that the admissible functions must be convex. This problem is at the interface between convex analysis, convex optimization, variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Adam M. Oberman

This paper considers the problem of minimizing the ordered weighted average (or ordered median) function of finitely many rational functions over compact semi-algebraic sets. Ordered weighted averages of rational functions are not, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-30 V. Blanco , S. El-Haj Ben-Ali , J. Puerto

Linear vector equations and inequalities are considered defined in terms of idempotent mathematics. To solve the equations, we apply an approach that is based on the analysis of distances between vectors in idempotent vector spaces. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Nikolai Krivulin

Our aim is to introduce the tropical tensor product and investigate its properties. In particular we show its use for solving tropical matrix equations.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Peter Butkovic , Miroslav Fiedler

In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of the knapsack problem and subset sum problem for the following tropical algebraic structures. We consider the semigroup of square matrices of size $k \times k$ with non-negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 I. M. Buchinskiy , M. V. Kotov , A. V. Treier

In this paper, "chance optimization" problems are introduced, where one aims at maximizing the probability of a set defined by polynomial inequalities. These problems are, in general, nonconvex and computationally hard. With the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Ashkan Jasour , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Constantino Lagoa

This paper is about the combinatorics of finite point configurations in the tropical projective space or, dually, of arrangements of finitely many tropical hyperplanes. Moreover, arrangements of finitely many tropical halfspaces can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Michael Joswig , Georg Loho

We analyze combinatorial optimization problems with ordinal, i.e., non-additive, objective functions that assign categories (like good, medium and bad) rather than cost coefficients to the elements of feasible solutions. We review different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Julia Sudhoff

This material provides thorough tutorials on some optimization techniques frequently used in various engineering disciplines, including convex optimization, linearization techniques and mixed-integer linear programming, robust optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Wei Wei

We propose a general method for optimization with semi-infinite constraints that involve a linear combination of functions, focusing on the case of the exponential function. Each function is lower and upper bounded on sub-intervals by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Bogdan Dumitrescu , Bogdan C. Sicleru , Florin Avram

We develop a tropical analog of the simplex algorithm for linear programming. In particular, we obtain a combinatorial algorithm to perform one tropical pivoting step, including the computation of reduced costs, in O(n(m+n)) time, where m…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Xavier Allamigeon , Pascal Benchimol , Stéphane Gaubert , Michael Joswig

Tropical implicitization means computing the tropicalization of a unirational variety from its parametrization. In the case of a hypersurface, this amounts to finding the Newton polytope of the implicit equation, without computing its…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Kemal Rose , Bernd Sturmfels , Simon Telen