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A new O(nlog(n)) algorithm is presented for performing Delaunay triangulation of sets of 2D points. The novel component of the algorithm is a radially propagating \emph{sweep-hull} (sequentially created from the radially sorted set of 2D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-07 David Sinclair

Convex hulls are fundamental objects in computational geometry. In moderate dimensions or for large numbers of vertices, computing the convex hull can be impractical due to the computational complexity of convex hull algorithms. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Robert Graham , Adam M. Oberman

Finding the coordinate-wise maxima and the convex hull of a planar point set are probably the most classic problems in computational geometry. We consider these problems in the self-improving setting. Here, we have $n$ distributions…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Wolfgang Mulzer , C. Seshadhri

We investigate algorithms with predictions in computational geometry, specifically focusing on the basic problem of computing 2D Delaunay triangulations. Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane and a triangulation $G$ that serves as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sergio Cabello , Timothy M. Chan , Panos Giannopoulos

We study the problem of sampling weighted partial triangulations of a convex polygon. We consider the distribution where each partial triangulation $\sigma$ is chosen with probability proportional to $\lambda^{|\sigma|}$, where $\lambda>0$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Antonio Blanca , Alexandre Stauffer , Izabella Stuhl

Recently, motivated by the rapid increase of the data size in various applications, Monemizadeh [APPROX'23] and Driemel, Monemizadeh, Oh, Staals, and Woodruff [SoCG'25] studied geometric problems in the setting where the only access to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 T. Schibler , J. Xue , J. Zhu

In our companion paper \cite{Stojnicclupint19} we introduced a powerful mechanism that we referred to as the Controlled Loosening-up (CLuP) for handling MIMO ML-detection problems. It turned out that the algorithm has many remarkable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Mihailo Stojnic

The randomly pivoted partial Cholesky algorithm (RPCholesky) computes a factorized rank-k approximation of an N x N positive-semidefinite (psd) matrix. RPCholesky requires only (k + 1) N entry evaluations and O(k^2 N) additional arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Yifan Chen , Ethan N. Epperly , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

Imprecise measurements of a point set P = (p1, ..., pn) can be modelled by a family of regions F = (R1, ..., Rn), where each imprecise region Ri contains a unique point pi. A retrieval models an accurate measurement by replacing an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sarita de Berg , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann , Sampson Wong

In this article we consider the problem of testing, for two finite sets of points in the Euclidean space, if their convex hulls are disjoint and computing an optimal supporting hyperplane if so. This is a fundamental problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mayank Gupta , Bahman Kalantari

Let $P$ be a $d$-dimensional $n$-point set. A partition $T$ of $P$ is called a Tverberg partition if the convex hulls of all sets in $T$ intersect in at least one point. We say $T$ is $t$-tolerant if it remains a Tverberg partition after…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Wolfgang Mulzer , Yannik Stein

In this paper, we study the mixed-integer nonlinear set given by a separable quadratic constraint on continuous variables, where each continuous variable is controlled by an additional indicator. This set occurs pervasively in optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Andres Gomez , Weijun Xie

We study the polyhedral structure of the static probabilistic lot-sizing problem and propose valid inequalities that integrate information from the chance constraint and the binary setup variables. We prove that the proposed inequalities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Xiao Liu , Simge Kucukyavuz

A novel 2-D method for computing the convex hull of a sufficiently dense set of n integer points is introduced. The approach employs a ranking function that avoids sorting the points directly thus reducing the overall time complexity. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-01-22 G. M. Megson , J. Cadenas

The convex hull of a data set $P$ is the smallest convex set that contains $P$. In this work, we present a new data structure for convex hull, that allows for efficient dynamic updates. In a dynamic convex hull implementation, the following…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Emil Toftegaard Gæde , Inge Li Gørtz , Ivor van der Hoog , Christoffer Krogh , Eva Rotenberg

Randomized iterative algorithms have attracted much attention in recent years because they can approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without accessing the entire coefficient matrix. In this paper, we propose two novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

We consider the population Wasserstein barycenter problem for random probability measures supported on a finite set of points and generated by an online stream of data. This leads to a complicated stochastic optimization problem where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Daniil Tiapkin , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

We are interested in solving convex optimization problems with large numbers of constraints. Randomized algorithms, such as random constraint sampling, have been very successful in giving nearly optimal solutions to such problems. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 William B. Haskell , Yu Pengqian

In this paper, we present novel randomized algorithms for solving saddle point problems whose dual feasible region is given by the direct product of many convex sets. Our algorithms can achieve an ${\cal O}(1/N)$ and ${\cal O}(1/N^2)$ rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Cong Dang , Guanghui Lan

We consider the convex hull of the perturbed point process comprised of $n$ i.i.d. points, each distributed as the sum of a uniform point on the unit sphere $\S^{d-1}$ and a uniform point in the $d$-dimensional ball centered at the origin…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Pierre Calka , J. E. Yukich