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We study the Maximum Balanced Biclique (MBB) problem: Given a bipartite graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, find a balanced biclique in $G$ with maximum size. We give a polynomial-time $\left(\frac{n}{\widetilde{\Omega}\left((\log…

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In this study, we investigate the problem of comparing gene trees reconciled with the same species tree using a novel semi-metric, called the Path-Label Reconciliation (PLR) dissimilarity measure. This approach not only quantifies…

This paper addresses the problem of approximate MAP-MRF inference in general graphical models. Following [36], we consider a family of linear programming relaxations of the problem where each relaxation is specified by a set of nested pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vladimir Kolmogorov , Thomas Schoenemann

In many operational contexts, solutions to NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, modeled by means of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP), may become infeasible due to unpredictable disruptions. Typically, reoptimizing by solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Mathieu Lerouge , Andrea Lodi , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci , Filippo Focacci

This paper deals with generating of an optimized route for multiple Vehicle routing Problems (mVRP). We used a methodology of clustering the given cities depending upon the number of vehicles and each cluster is allotted to a vehicle. k-…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-01-26 R. Nallusamy , K. Duraiswamy , R. Dhanalaksmi , P. Parthiban

Belief Propagation (BP) is a widely used approximation for exact probabilistic inference in graphical models, such as Markov Random Fields (MRFs). In graphs with cycles, however, no exact convergence guarantees for BP are known, in general.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Wolfgang Gatterbauer

Bayesian inference for exponential family random graph models (ERGMs) is a doubly-intractable problem because of the intractability of both the likelihood and posterior normalizing factor. Auxiliary variable based Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-15 Fan Yin , Carter T. Butts

This paper proposes Genetic Algorithm with Border Trades (GAB), a novel modification of the standard genetic algorithm that enhances exploration by incorporating new chromosome patterns in the breeding process. This approach significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qingchuan Lyu

The reconstruction of the history of evolutionary genome-wide events among a set of related organisms is of great biological interest. A simplified model that captures only content modifying operations was introduced recently. It allows the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-15 Stefan Canzar , Sandro Andreotti

The qubit routing problem, also known as the swap minimization problem, is a (classical) combinatorial optimization problem that arises in the design of compilers of quantum programs. We study the qubit routing problem from the viewpoint of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Takehiro Ito , Naonori Kakimura , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yoshio Okamoto

We give a polynomial time reduction from vector scheduling problem (VS) to generalized load balancing problem (GLB). This reduction gives the first non-trivial online algorithm for VS where vectors come in an online fashion. The online…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Xiaojun Zhu , Qun Li , Weizhen Mao , Guihai Chen

Identifying discrete patterns in binary data is an important dimensionality reduction tool in machine learning and data mining. In this paper, we consider the problem of low-rank binary matrix factorisation (BMF) under Boolean arithmetic.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Reka A. Kovacs , Oktay Gunluk , Raphael A. Hauser

Graph matching is one of the most important problems in graph theory and combinatorial optimization, with many applications in various domains. Although meta-heuristic algorithms have had good performance on many NP-Hard and NP-Complete…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Hashem Ezzati , Mahmood Amintoosi , Hashem Tabasi

We present an efficient algorithm for the least squares parameter fitting optimized for component separation in multi-frequency CMB experiments. We sidestep some of the problems associated with non-linear optimization by taking advantage of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Rishi Khatri

Low energy barrier magnet (LBM) technology has recently been proposed as a candidate for accelerating algorithms based on energy minimization and probabilistic graphs because their physical characteristics have a one-to-one mapping onto the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Md Golam Morshed , Samiran Ganguly , Avik W. Ghosh

The paper presents complexity results and performance guaranties for a family of approximation algorithms for an optimisation problem arising in software testing and manufacturing. The problem is formulated as a partitioning of a set where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yakov Zinder , Bertrand M. T. Lin , Joanna Berlińska

Learning to optimize is a rapidly growing area that aims to solve optimization problems or improve existing optimization algorithms using machine learning (ML). In particular, the graph neural network (GNN) is considered a suitable ML model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ziang Chen , Jialin Liu , Xinshang Wang , Jianfeng Lu , Wotao Yin

Best match graphs (BMGs) are vertex-colored directed graphs that were introduced to model the relationships of genes (vertices) from different species (colors) given an underlying evolutionary tree that is assumed to be unknown. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-04 David Schaller , Peter F. Stadler , Marc Hellmuth

In the Rectangle Stabbing problem, input is a set ${\cal R}$ of axis-parallel rectangles and a set ${\cal L}$ of axis parallel lines in the plane. The task is to find a minimum size set ${\cal L}^* \subseteq {\cal L}$ such that for every…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Huairui Chu , Ajaykrishnan E S , Daniel Lokshtanov , Anikait Mundhra , Thomas Schibler , Xiaoyang Xu , Jie Xue

Given an $n*n$ sparse symmetric matrix with $m$ nonzero entries, performing Gaussian elimination may turn some zeroes into nonzero values. To maintain the matrix sparse, we would like to minimize the number $k$ of these changes, hence…

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