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Using well-known mathematical problems for encryption is a widely used technique because they are computationally hard and provide security against potential attacks on the encryption method. The subset sum problem (SSP) can be defined as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yair Zadok , Nadav Voloch , Noa Voloch-Bloch , Maor Meir Hajaj

The interval subset sum problem (ISSP) is a generalization of the well-known subset sum problem. Given a set of intervals $\left\{[a_{i,1},a_{i,2}]\right\}_{i=1}^n$ and a target integer $T,$ the ISSP is to find a set of integers, at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Rui Diao , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai

Integer programming (IP), as the name suggests is an integer-variable-based approach commonly used to formulate real-world optimization problems with constraints. Currently, quantum algorithms reformulate the IP into an unconstrained form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

Recent advances in mathematical programming have made Mixed Integer Optimization a competitive alternative to popular regularization methods for selecting features in regression problems. The approach exhibits unquestionable foundational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-01 Ana Kenney , Francesca Chiaromonte , Giovanni Felici

Statistical inference problems arising within signal processing, data mining, and machine learning naturally give rise to hard combinatorial optimization problems. These problems become intractable when the dimensionality of the data is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-27 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Given real numbers whose sum is an integer, we study the problem of finding integers which match these real numbers as closely as possible, in the sense of L^p norm, while preserving the sum. We describe the structure of solutions for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Rama Cont , Massoud Heidari

In this paper, we consider a probabilistic set covering problem (PSCP) in which each 0-1 row of the constraint matrix is random with a finite discrete distribution, and the objective is to minimize the total cost of the selected columns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jie Liang , Cheng-Yang Yu , Wei Lv , Wei-Kun Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

In optimization-based image restoration models, the correct selection of hyperparameters is crucial for achieving superior performance. However, current research typically involves manual tuning of these hyperparameters, which is highly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Hang Xie , Xuewen Li , Peili Li , Qiuyu Wang

Solving large-scale Mixed Integer Programs (MIP) can be difficult without advanced algorithms such as decomposition based techniques. Even if a decomposition technique might be appropriate, there are still many possible decompositions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Jake Weiner , Andreas T. Ernst , Xiaodong Li , Yuan Sun

We study the problem of designing systems in order to minimize cost while meeting a given flexibility target. Flexibility is attained by enforcing a joint chance constraint, which ensures that the system will exhibit feasible operation with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Joshua L. Pulsipher , Victor M. Zavala

In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming problems involving s.o.s-convex polynomial functions. For such a problem, by a conic reformulation proposed in our previous work and the quadratic modules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Feng Guo , Meijun Zhang

The minimum common string partition problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in computational biology. In this work we propose the first integer linear programming model for solving this problem. Moreover,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Christian Blum , José A. Lozano , Pedro Pinacho Davidson

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a successful method for solving a range of real-world applications. Despite the availability of fast ASP solvers, computing answer sets demands a very large computational power, since the problem tackled is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary

We consider nonsmooth optimization problems under affine constraints, where the objective consists of the average of the component functions of a large number $N$ of agents, and we only assume access to the Fenchel conjugate of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Benjamin Dubois-Taine , Laurent Pfeiffer , Nadia Oudjane , Adrien Seguret , Francis Bach

This paper considers a class of constrained stochastic composite optimization problems whose objective function is given by the summation of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex) component, together with a certain non-differentiable (but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-06 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

Integer data sets frequently appear in many applications in sciences and technology. To analyze these, integer low rank approximation has received much attention due to its capacity of representing the results in integers preserving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Bo Dong , Matthew M. Lin , Haesun Park

Compression of integer sets and sequences has been extensively studied for settings where elements follow a uniform probability distribution. In addition, methods exist that exploit clustering of elements in order to achieve higher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-11 N. Jesper Larsson

We propose a family of adaptive integer compression operators for distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) that do not communicate a single float. This is achieved by multiplying floating-point vectors with a number known to every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Konstantin Mishchenko , Bokun Wang , Dmitry Kovalev , Peter Richtárik

This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We propose some new mixed finite element methods for the time dependent stochastic Stokes equations with multiplicative noise, which use the Helmholtz decomposition of the driving multiplicative noise. It is known [16] that the pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Xiaobing Feng , Andreas Prohl , Liet Vo