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Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Counting integer solutions of linear constraints has found interesting applications in various fields. It is equivalent to the problem of counting lattice points inside a polytope. However, state-of-the-art algorithms for this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Cunjing Ge

A determined algorithm is presented for solving the rSUM problem for any natural r with a sub-quadratic assessment of time complexity in some cases. In terms of an amount of memory used the obtained algorithm is the nlog^3(n) order. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Valerii Sopin

We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

We study the complexity of optimizing highly smooth convex functions. For a positive integer $p$, we want to find an $\epsilon$-approximate minimum of a convex function $f$, given oracle access to the function and its first $p$ derivatives,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Ankit Garg , Robin Kothari , Praneeth Netrapalli , Suhail Sherif

We consider the dynamic resource allocation problem where the decision space is finite-dimensional, yet the solution must satisfy a large or even infinite number of constraints revealed via streaming data or oracle feedback. We model this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiming Zong , Jiashuo Jiang

Complex polynomial optimization has recently gained more and more attention in both theory and practice. In this paper, we study the optimization of a real-valued general conjugate complex form over various popular constraint sets including…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Taoran Fu , Bo Jiang , Zhening Li

We introduce a quantum algorithm that produces approximate solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. The algorithm depends on a positive integer p and the quality of the approximation improves as p is increased. The quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

The subset sum problem is known to be an NP-hard problem in the field of computer science with the fastest known approach having a run-time complexity of $O(2^{0.3113n})$. A modified version of this problem is known as the perfect sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kristof Pusztai

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan , Mojtaba Eslahi

The goal of this paper is to find a low-rank approximation for a given tensor. Specifically, we give a computable strategy on calculating the rank of a given tensor, based on approximating the solution to an NP-hard problem. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Xiaofei Wang , Carmeliza Navasca

Given a list of N numbers, the maximum can be computed in N iterations. During these N iterations, the maximum gets updated on average as many times as the Nth harmonic number. We first use this fact to approximate the Nth harmonic number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Ali Dasdan

This article investigates the interplay of rounding objective coefficients in binary programs and almost symmetries. Empirically, reducing the number of significant bits through rounding often leads to instances that are easier to solve.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Dominik Kuzinowicz , Paweł Lichocki , Gioni Mexi , Marc E. Pfetsch , Sebastian Pokutta , Max Zimmer

This paper presents a practical method for finding the globally optimal solution to the sum-of-ratios problem arising in image processing, engineering and management. Unlike traditional methods which may get trapped in local minima due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Yunchol Jong

Choosing an appropriate regularization term is necessary to obtain a meaningful solution to an ill-posed linear inverse problem contaminated with measurement errors or noise. The $\ell_p$ norm covers a wide range of choices for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Jeffrey Cornelis , Wim Vanroose

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

We present a complete algorithm for finding an exact minimal polynomial from its approximate value by using an improved parameterized integer relation construction method. Our result is superior to the existence of error controlling on…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-01-06 Xiaolin Qin , Yong Feng , Jingwei Chen , Jingzhong Zhang

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$ We develop a general randomized technique for solving "implic it" linear programming problems, where the collection of constraints are defined implicitly by an underlying ground set of elements. In many…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Timothy M. Chan , Sariel Har-Peled , Mitchell Jones

The intention of this note is two-fold. First, we study integer optimization problems in standard form defined by $A \in\mathbb{Z}^{m\times{}n}$ and present an algorithm to solve such problems in polynomial-time provided that both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Stephan Artmann , Friedrich Eisenbrand , Christoph Glanzer , Timm Oertel , Santosh Vempala , Robert Weismantel