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Multimarginal Optimal Transport (MOT) is the problem of linear programming over joint probability distributions with fixed marginals. A key issue in many applications is the complexity of solving MOT: the linear program has exponential size…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Jason M. Altschuler , Enric Boix-Adsera

We study the minimum diameter spanning tree problem under the reload cost model (DIAMETER-TREE for short) introduced by Wirth and Steffan (2001). In this problem, given an undirected edge-colored graph $G$, reload costs on a path arise at a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Julien Baste , Didem Gözüpek , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Mordechai Shalom , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

In this study we analyze linear mixed-integer programming problems, in which the distribution of the cost vector is only observable through a finite training data set. In contrast to the related studies, we assume that the number of random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Sergey S. Ketkov , Andrei S. Shilov

In this work, we present a novel iterative deep Ritz method (IDRM) for solving a general class of elliptic problems. It is inspired by the iterative procedure for minimizing the loss during the training of the neural network, but at each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Tianhao Hu , Bangti Jin , Fengru Wang

Verifying the robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks at test time is an important research problem. Unfortunately, prior work established that this problem is NP-hard for decision tree ensembles, hence bound to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Stefano Calzavara , Lorenzo Cazzaro , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Nicola Prezza

Given a directed graph $G=(V,A)$, the Directed Maximum Leaf Spanning Tree problem asks to compute a directed spanning tree (i.e., an out-branching) with as many leaves as possible. By designing a Branch-and-Reduced algorithm combined with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Daniel Raible , Henning Fernau

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the minimum branch vertices problem consists in finding a spanning tree $T=(V,E')$ of $G$ minimizing the number of vertices with degree greater than two. We consider a simple combinatorial lower bound for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Rafael A. Melo , Phillippe Samer , Sebastián Urrutia

The profitable tour problem (PTP) is a well-known NP-hard routing problem searching for a tour visiting a subset of customers while maximizing profit as the difference between total revenue collected and traveling costs. PTP is known to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Enrico Angelelli , Renata Mansini , Romeo Rizzi

In this article we study a broad class of integer programming problems in variable dimension. We show that these so-termed {\em n-fold integer programming problems} are polynomial time solvable. Our proof involves two heavy ingredients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Shmuel Onn , Robert Weismantel

In the present paper, a robust approach to a special class of convex feasibility problems is considered. By techniques of convex and variational analysis, conditions for the existence of robust feasible solutions and related error bounds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Amos Uderzo

In recent advances in solving the problem of transmission network expansion planning, the use of robust optimization techniques has been put forward, as an alternative to stochastic mathematical programming methods, to make the problem…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Roberto Minguez , Raquel Garcia-Bertrand

We investigate a relaxation of the notion of treewidth-fragility, namely tree-independence-number-fragility. In particular, we obtain polynomial-time approximation schemes for independent packing problems on fractionally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

The Steiner tree problem is one of the classic and most fundamental $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems: given an arbitrary weighted graph, seek a minimum-cost tree spanning a given subset of the vertices (terminals). Byrka \emph{et al}. proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Chi-Yeh Chen

Our focus is on robust recovery algorithms in statistical linear inverse problem. We consider two recovery routines - the much studied linear estimate originating from Kuks and Olman [42] and polyhedral estimate introduced in [37]. It was…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Yannis Bekri , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

We propose an algorithm for deciding whether a given braid is pseudo-Anosov, reducible, or periodic. The algorithm is based on Garside's weighted decomposition and is polynomial-time in the word-length of an input braid. Moreover, a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ki Hyoung Ko , Jang Won Lee

We consider a problem of optimizing convex functionals over matroid bases. It is richly expressive and captures certain quadratic assignment and clustering problems. While generally NP-hard, we show it is polynomial time solvable when a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Shmuel Onn

This paper investigates two related optimal input selection problems for fixed (non-switched) and switched structured systems. More precisely, we consider selecting the minimum cost of inputs from a prior set of inputs, and selecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Yuan Zhang , Yuanqing Xia , Shenyu Liu , Zhongqi Sun

This paper considers the problem of recovering the delays and amplitudes of a weighted superposition of pulses. This problem is motivated by a variety of applications such as ultrasound and radar. We show that for univariate and bivariate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Tamir Bendory , Shai Dekel , Arie Feuer

Matrix (or operator) recovery from linear measurements is a well-studied problem. However, there are situations where only bilinear or quadratic measurements are available. A bilinear or quadratic problem can easily be transformed into a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Michalina Pacholska , Karen Adam , Adam Scholefield , Martin Vetterli

We give a proof for sharp estimate for the number of spanning trees using linear algebra and generalize this bound to multigraphs. In addition, we show that this bound is tight for complete graphs. In addition, we give estimates for number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-01 K. V. Chelpanov