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Indefinite quadratic programs (QPs) are known to be very difficult to be solved to global optimality, so are linear programs with linear complementarity constraints. Treating the former as a subclass of the latter, this paper presents a…

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We study integer linear programs (ILP) of the form $\min\{c^\top x\ \vert\ Ax=b,l\le x\le u,x\in\mathbb Z^n\}$ and analyze their parameterized complexity with respect to their distance to the generalized matching problem, following the…

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We study fundamental point-line covering problems in computational geometry, in which the input is a set $S$ of points in the plane. The first is the Rich Lines problem, which asks for the set of all lines that each covers at least…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Ge Xia

We present a novel algorithm attaining excessively fast, the sought solution of linear systems of equations. The algorithm is short in its basic formulation and, by definition, vectorized, while the memory allocation demands are trivial,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Nikolaos P. Bakas

Linear programming (LP) relaxations are widely employed in exact solution methods for multilinear programs (MLP). One example is the family of Recursive McCormick Linearization (RML) strategies, where bilinear products are substituted for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Arvind U Raghunathan , Carlos Cardonha , David Bergman , Carlos J Nohra

The 0-1 integer linear programming feasibility problem is an important NP-complete problem. This paper proposes a continuous-time dynamical system for solving that problem without getting trapped in non-solution local minima. First, the…

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The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important Combinatorial Optimization problems in optimization and has a lot of real-world applications. Many approximation algorithms have been presented for this problem because of its NP-hard…

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In this paper, we study matrix scaling and balancing, which are fundamental problems in scientific computing, with a long line of work on them that dates back to the 1960s. We provide algorithms for both these problems that, ignoring…

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Linear programs (LPs) can be solved by polynomially many moves along the circuit direction improving the objective the most, so-called deepest-descent steps (dd-steps). Computing these steps is NP-hard (De Loera et al., arXiv, 2019), a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Steffen Borgwardt , Cornelius Brand , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Martin Koutecký

The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important optimization problems. In recent years, due to its NP-hard nature, several approximation algorithms have been presented. It is proved that the best algorithm for the Bin Packing Problem…

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In this letter, we develop an efficient linear programming (LP) decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We first relax the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding problem to a LP problem by using check-node decomposition.…

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We study the general integer programming (IP) problem of optimizing a separable convex function over the integer points of a polytope: $\min \{f(\mathbf{x}) \mid A\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{b}, \, \mathbf{l} \leq \mathbf{x} \leq \mathbf{u}, \,…

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We propose a novel Linear Program (LP) based formula- tion for solving jigsaw puzzles. We formulate jigsaw solving as a set of successive global convex relaxations of the stan- dard NP-hard formulation, that can describe both jigsaws with…

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Strip packing is a classical packing problem, where the goal is to pack a set of rectangular objects into a strip of a given width, while minimizing the total height of the packing. The problem has multiple applications, e.g. in scheduling…

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Message-passing algorithms based on belief-propagation (BP) are successfully used in many applications including decoding error correcting codes and solving constraint satisfaction and inference problems. BP-based algorithms operate over…

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The Integer Programming Problem (IP) for a polytope P \subseteq R^n is to find an integer point in P or decide that P is integer free. We give an algorithm for an approximate version of this problem, which correctly decides whether P…

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The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

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Previously proposed quantum algorithms for solving linear systems of equations cannot be implemented in the near term due to the required circuit depth. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, called Variational Quantum…

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