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This article discusses ability of Linear Programming models to be used as solvers of NP-complete problems. Integer Linear Programming is known as NP-complete problem, but non-integer Linear Programming problems can be solved in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Radoslaw Hofman

In the area of parameterized complexity, to cope with NP-Hard problems, we introduce a parameter k besides the input size n, and we aim to design algorithms (called FPT algorithms) that run in O(f(k)n^d) time for some function f(k) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Yoichi Iwata , Keigo Oka , Yuichi Yoshida

In this paper, we give a faster width-dependent algorithm for mixed packing-covering LPs. Mixed packing-covering LPs are fundamental to combinatorial optimization in computer science and operations research. Our algorithm finds a $1+\eps$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Digvijay Boob , Saurabh Sawlani , Di Wang

Arising from structural graph theory, treewidth has become a focus of study in fixed-parameter tractable algorithms in various communities including combinatorics, integer-linear programming, and numerical analysis. Many NP-hard problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sally Dong , Yin Tat Lee , Guanghao Ye

We introduce a generic framework for solving linear programs (LPs) with many constraints $(n \gg d)$ via adaptive sparsification. Our approach provides a principled generalization of the techniques of [Assadi '23] from matching problems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Étienne Objois , Adrian Vladu

Online linear programming (OLP) has gained significant attention from both researchers and practitioners due to its extensive applications, such as online auction, network revenue management, order fulfillment and advertising. Existing OLP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Guokai Li , Zizhuo Wang , Jingwei Zhang

Since the Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is one of the main NP-hard problems, a lot of approximation algorithms have been suggested for it. It has been proven that the best algorithm for BPP has the approximation ratio of 3/2 and the time order…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan

Many problems in computer science and applied mathematics require rounding a vector $\mathbf{w}$ of fractional values lying in the interval $[0,1]$ to a binary vector $\mathbf{x}$ so that, for a given matrix $\mathbf{A}$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Lily Li , Aleksandar Nikolov

Positive semidefinite programs are an important subclass of semidefinite programs in which all matrices involved in the specification of the problem are positive semidefinite and all scalars involved are non-negative. We present a parallel…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-14 Rahul Jain , Penghui Yao

We consider a recently introduced fair repetitive scheduling problem involving a set of clients, each asking for their associated job to be daily scheduled on a single machine across a finite planning horizon. The goal is to determine a job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Danny Hermelin , Danny Segev , Dvir Shabtay

Solving linear programs is often a challenging task in distributed settings. While there are good algorithms for solving packing and covering linear programs in a distributed manner (Kuhn et al.~2006), this is essentially the only class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Michael Dinitz , Yasamin Nazari

Solving linear systems and quadratic programming (QP) problems are both ubiquitous tasks in the engineering and computing fields. Direct methods for solving systems, such as Cholesky, LU, and QR factorizations, exhibit data-independent time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Liang Wu , Richard D. Braatz

In this paper, we study parallel algorithms for the correlation clustering problem, where every pair of two different entities is labeled with similar or dissimilar. The goal is to partition the entities into clusters to minimize the number…

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Given a finite metric space $(X\cup Y, \mathbf{d})$ the $k$-median problem is to find a set of $k$ centers $C\subseteq Y$ that minimizes $\sum_{p\in X} \min_{c\in C} \mathbf{d}(p,c)$. In general metrics, the best polynomial time algorithm…

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We show that if the probabilistic logarithmic-space solver or the deterministic nearly logarithmic-space solver for undirected Laplacian matrices can be extended to solve slightly larger subclasses of linear systems, then they can be use to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xuangui Huang

The emergence of huge-scale, data-intensive linear optimization (LO) problems in applications such as machine learning has driven the need for more computationally efficient interior point methods (IPMs). While conventional IPMs are…

We study approximation algorithms for the following geometric version of the maximum coverage problem: Let P be a set of n weighted points in the plane. We want to place m a * b rectangles such that the sum of the weights of the points in P…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Jian Li , Haitao Wang , Bowei Zhang , Ningye Zhang

We consider the 0-1 Incremental Knapsack Problem (IKP) where the capacity grows over time periods and if an item is placed in the knapsack in a certain period, it cannot be removed afterwards. The contribution of a packed item in each time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Federico Della Croce , Ulrich Pferschy , Rosario Scatamacchia

We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by machine learning and data mining applications where the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nate Veldt

We study a structured linear program (LP) that emerges in the need of ranking candidates or items in personalized recommender systems. Since the candidate set is only known in real time, the LP also needs to be formed and solved in real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Haoyue Wang , Miao Cheng , Kinjal Basu , Aman Gupta , Keerthi Selvaraj , Rahul Mazumder