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The full strong branching (FSB) rule is well known to produce extremely small branch-and-bound trees. This rule guides branching decisions based exclusively on the information regarding local gains in the linear programming (LP) bounds. We…

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A distance-based inconsistency indicator, defined by the third author for the consistency-driven pairwise comparisons method, is extended to the incomplete case. The corresponding optimization problem is transformed into an equivalent…

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We study the integrality gap of the natural linear programming relaxation for the \textit{Bounded Color Matching} (BCM) problem. We provide several families of instances and establish lower bounds on their integrality gaps and we study how…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Steven Kelk , Georgios Stamoulis

We consider algorithms and lower bounds for various problems over forest languages; as input models we allow forest algebras, deterministic forest automata and nondeterministic forest automata. For the equivalence problem, we give an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Marcial Gaißert , Manfred Kufleitner

We focus on rational solutions or nearly-feasible rational solutions that serve as certificates of feasibility for polynomial optimization problems. We show that, under some separability conditions, certain cubic polynomially constrained…

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Traditional text embedding benchmarks primarily evaluate embedding models' capabilities to capture semantic similarity. However, more advanced NLP tasks require a deeper understanding of text, such as safety and factuality. These tasks…

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We give a polynomial time, $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for the traveling repairman problem (TRP) in the Euclidean plane and on weighted trees. This improves on the known quasi-polynomial time approximation schemes for these…

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This paper mainly investigates the analytic solutions for the approximation of $p$-Laplacian problem. Through an approximation mechanism, we convert the nonlinear partial differential equation with Dirichlet boundary into a sequence of…

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We show that Cutting Planes (CP) proofs are hard to find: Given an unsatisfiable formula $F$, 1) It is NP-hard to find a CP refutation of $F$ in time polynomial in the length of the shortest such refutation; and 2)unless Gap-Hitting-Set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Mika Göös , Sajin Koroth , Ian Mertz , Toniann Pitassi

A numerical method is developed to solve linear semi-infinite programming problem (LSIP) in which the iterates produced by the algorithm are feasible for the original problem. This is achieved by constructing a sequence of standard linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Shuxiong Wang

In this paper, we establish hardness and approximation results for various $L_p$-ball constrained homogeneous polynomial optimization problems, where $p \in [2,\infty]$. Specifically, we prove that for any given $d \ge 3$ and $p \in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Ke Hou , Anthony Man-Cho So

The burning number is a recently introduced graph parameter indicating the spreading speed of content in a graph through its edges. While the conjectured upper bound on the necessary numbers of time steps until all vertices are reached is…

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This article is devoted to propose some lower and upper bounds for the coupled-tasks scheduling problem in presence of compatibility constraints according to classical complexity hypothesis ($\mathcal{P} \neq \mathcal{NP}$,…

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We present a new algorithm, Fractional Decomposition Tree (FDT) for finding a feasible solution for an integer program (IP) where all variables are binary. FDT runs in polynomial time and is guaranteed to find a feasible integer solution…

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The Probabilistic p-Center problem under Pressure (Min PpCP) is a variant of the usual p-Center problem we recently introduced in the context of wildfire management. The problem is to locate p shelters minimizing the maximum distance people…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Marc Demange , Marcel A. Haddad , Cécile Murat

This paper develops an enhanced finite element method for approximating a class of variational problems which exhibit the \textit{Lavrentiev gap phenomenon} in the sense that the minimum values of the energy functional have a nontrivial gap…

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A \emph{binary tanglegram} is a drawing of a pair of rooted binary trees whose leaf sets are in one-to-one correspondence; matching leaves are connected by inter-tree edges. For applications, for example, in phylogenetics, it is essential…

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The purpose of this article is to examine and limit the conditions in which the P complexity class could be equivalent to the NP complexity class. Proof is provided by demonstrating that as the number of clauses in a NP-complete problem…

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Unit disk graphs are the set of graphs which represent the intersection of disk graphs and interval graphs. These graphs are of great importance due to their structural similarity with wireless communication networks. Firefighter problem on…

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