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The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to extend the area of applications of tropical optimization by solving new constrained location problems, and second, to offer new closed-form solutions to general problems that are of interest to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Nikolai Krivulin

We consider a method of pairwise variations for smooth optimization problems, which involve polyhedral constraints. It consists in making steps with respect to the difference of two selected extreme points of the feasible set together with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-12 I. V. Konnov

We present pairwise fairness metrics for ranking models and regression models that form analogues of statistical fairness notions such as equal opportunity, equal accuracy, and statistical parity. Our pairwise formulation supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Harikrishna Narasimhan , Andrew Cotter , Maya Gupta , Serena Wang

Tropical mathematics redefines the rules of arithmetic by replacing addition with taking a maximum, and by replacing multiplication with addition. After briefly discussing a tropical version of linear algebra, we study polynomials build…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ralph Morrison

A new multidimensional optimization problem is considered in the tropical mathematics setting. The problem is to minimize a nonlinear function defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield and given by a conjugate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Nikolai Krivulin

In this note we aim at putting more emphasis on the fact that trying to solve non-convex optimization problems with coordinate-descent iterative linear matrix inequality algorithms leads to suboptimal solutions, and put forward other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Emile Simon , Vincent Wertz

We enumerate rational curves in toric surfaces passing through points and satisfying cross-ratio constraints using tropical and combinatorial methods. Our starting point is arXiv:1509.07453, where a tropical-algebraic correspondence theorem…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Christoph Goldner

We consider a multidimensional extremal problem formulated in terms of tropical mathematics. The problem is to minimize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Nikolai Krivulin

Many important multiple-objective decision problems can be cast within the framework of ranking under constraints and solved via a weighted bipartite matching linear program. Some of these optimization problems, such as personalized content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yegor Tkachenko , Wassim Dhaouadi , Kamel Jedidi

In this paper we develop a combinatorial abstraction of tropical linear programming. This generalizes the search for a feasible point of a system of min-plus-inequalities. It is based on the polyhedral properties of triangulations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Georg Loho

Nowadays, several crowdsourcing projects exploit social choice methods for computing an aggregate ranking of alternatives given individual rankings provided by workers. Motivated by such systems, we consider a setting where each worker is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Xenophon Chatzigeorgiou , George A. Krimpas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Alternating minimization represents a widely applicable and empirically successful approach for finding low-rank matrices that best fit the given data. For example, for the problem of low-rank matrix completion, this method is believed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-04 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sujay Sanghavi

The pairwise comparisons method is a convenient tool used when the relative order among different concepts (alternatives) needs to be determined. One popular implementation of the method is based on solving an eigenvalue problem for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Konrad Kułakowski

Proposed is a new formal approach for solution of extreme multi-criteria problems transforming them into single-criterion mathematical models, without any additional information. Transforming rules are based on comparison standards and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. O. Groppen

We develop a tropical analogue of the classical double description method allowing one to compute an internal representation (in terms of vertices) of a polyhedron defined externally (by inequalities). The heart of the tropical algorithm is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

This study proposes a new constraint handling technique for assisting metaheuristic optimization algorithms to solve constrained optimization problems more effectively and efficiently. Given any two solutions of any constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Ting Huang , Qiang Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Shanlin Yang

Tropical polyhedra seem to play a central role in static analysis of softwares. These tropical geometrical objects play also a central role in parity games especially mean payoff games and energy games. And determining if an initial state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 L. Truffet

When creating the ranking based on the pairwise comparisons very often, we face difficulties in completing all the results of direct comparisons. In this case, the solution is to use the ranking method based on the incomplete PC matrix. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Konrad Kułakowski

An algorithm to give an explicit description of all the solutions to any tropical linear system $A\odot x=B\odot x$ is presented. The given system is converted into a finite (rather small) number $p$ of pairs $(S,T)$ of classical linear…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-01-24 E. Lorenzo , M. J. de la Puente

The solving of scientific and practical application connected with conducting of satellite experiments and measurement demand analysis of geometric and physic conditions according to different kind of models. This is forced in connect of…

Space Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Atanas Marinov Atanassov