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While linear programming (LP) decoding provides more flexibility for finite-length performance analysis than iterative message-passing (IMP) decoding, it is computationally more complex to implement in its original form, due to both the…

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We study approximation algorithms for the following geometric version of the maximum coverage problem: Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a set of $n$ weighted points in the plane. Let $D$ represent a planar object, such as a rectangle, or a disk. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Kai Jin , Jian Li , Haitao Wang , Bowei Zhang , Ningye Zhang

In this paper, we show $O(1.415^n)$-time and $O(1.190^n)$-space exact algorithms for 0-1 integer programs where constraints are linear equalities and coefficients are arbitrary real numbers. Our algorithms are quadratically faster than…

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A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

Linear programming (LP) is an extremely useful tool which has been successfully applied to solve various problems in a wide range of areas, including operations research, engineering, economics, or even more abstract mathematical areas such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Agniva Chowdhury , Gregory Dexter , Palma London , Haim Avron , Petros Drineas

We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Evgeny Shindin , Gideon Weiss

Change-point problems have appeared in a great many applications for example cancer genetics, econometrics and climate change. Modern multiscale type segmentation methods are considered to be a statistically efficient approach for multiple…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-04 Chengcheng Huang , Housen Li , Lizhi Cheng , Wei Peng

We study sublinear time algorithms for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). First, we focus on the closely related {\em maximum path cover} problem, which asks for a collection of vertex disjoint paths that include the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani , Aviad Rubinstein , Amin Saberi

We study an important case of ILPs $\max\{c^Tx \ \vert\ \mathcal Ax = b, l \leq x \leq u,\, x \in \mathbb{Z}^{n t} \} $ with $n\cdot t$ variables and lower and upper bounds $\ell, u\in\mathbb Z^{nt}$. In $n$-fold ILPs non-zero entries only…

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Despite major advancements in nonlinear programming (NLP) and convex relaxations, most system operators around the world still predominantly use some form of linear programming (LP) approximation of the AC power flow equations. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Sleiman , Mhanna , Pierluigi , Mancarella

Longest common substring (LCS), longest palindrome substring (LPS), and Ulam distance (UL) are three fundamental string problems that can be classically solved in near linear time. In this work, we present sublinear time quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 François Le Gall , Saeed Seddighin

In this work, we study the classic submodular maximization problem under knapsack constraints and beyond. We first present an $(7/16-\varepsilon)$-approximate algorithm for single knapsack constraint, which requires…

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It has been verified that the linear programming (LP) is able to formulate many real-life optimization problems, which can obtain the optimum by resorting to corresponding solvers such as OptVerse, Gurobi and CPLEX. In the past decades, a…

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Following the breakthrough work of Tardos in the bit-complexity model, Vavasis and Ye gave the first exact algorithm for linear programming in the real model of computation with running time depending only on the constraint matrix. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Daniel Dadush , Sophie Huiberts , Bento Natura , László A. Végh

Solving large, sparse linear systems is a fundamental workload in scientific computing and engineering simulations, often dominating runtime and energy consumption in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In this work, we explore…

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This paper presents an acceleration framework for packing linear programming problems where the amount of data available is limited, i.e., where the number of constraints m is small compared to the variable dimension n. The framework can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Palma London , Shai Vardi , Adam Wierman , Hanling Yi

A covering integer program (CIP) is a mathematical program of the form: min {c^T x : Ax >= 1, 0 <= x <= u, x integer}, where A is an m x n matrix, and c and u are n-dimensional vectors, all having non-negative entries. In the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Anupam Gupta , Viswanath Nagarajan

We give sublinear-time approximation algorithms for some optimization problems arising in machine learning, such as training linear classifiers and finding minimum enclosing balls. Our algorithms can be extended to some kernelized versions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-22 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Elad Hazan , David P. Woodruff

This article presents a numerical illustration of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming (LP) problem. Each iteration of the proposed algorithm consists of two Gauss-Jordan pivoting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Samuel Awoniyi

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

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