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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 investigate the computational complexity of min-max optimization under coupled constraints. The work of Daskalakis, Skoulakis, and Zampetakis [DSZ21] was the first to study min-max optimization through the lens of computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Gabriele Farina

In this work we provide a formal model for the different time-dependent components that can appear in dynamic multi-objective optimization problems, along with a classification of these components. Four main classes are identified,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-25 Alexandru-Adrian Tantar , Emilia Tantar , Pascal Bouvry

We consider several combinatorial optimization problems which combine the classic shop scheduling problems, namely open shop scheduling or job shop scheduling, and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Wenxun Xing

A promising approach to achieve computational supremacy over the classical von Neumann architecture explores classical and quantum hardware as Ising machines. The minimisation of the Ising Hamiltonian is known to be NP-hard problem for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Kirill P. Kalinin , Natalia G. Berloff

Near-optimality robustness extends multilevel optimization with a limited deviation of a lower level from its optimal solution, anticipated by higher levels. We analyze the complexity of near-optimal robust multilevel problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Mathieu Besançon , Miguel F. Anjos , Luce Brotcorne

This paper introduces a problem in which the state of a system needs to be determined through costly tests of its components by a limited number of testing units and before a given deadline. We also consider a closely related search problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Alessandro Agnetis , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Salim Rostami

Many problems in science and engineering are optimization problems, which may require sophisticated optimization techniques to solve. Nature-inspired algorithms are a class of metaheuristic algorithms for optimization, and some algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xin-She Yang

In this work, I present an optimization problem which consists of assigning entries of a stellar catalog to multiple entries of another stellar catalog such that the probability of such assignment is maximum. I show a way of modeling it as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Daniel Severin

The power and communication networks are highly interdependent and form a part of the critical infrastructure of a country. Similarly, dependencies exist within the networks itself. It is essential to have a model which captures these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Joydeep Banerjee , Kaustav Basu , Arunabha Sen

We study the complexity of the Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNE), which is the combinatorial core of several telecommunication problems related to the implementation of virtualization technologies, such as Network Slicing. VNE is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Amal Benhamiche , Pierre Fouilhoux , Lucas Létocart , Nancy Perrot , Alexis Schneider

For a given set of intervals on the real line, we consider the problem of ordering the intervals with the goal of minimizing an objective function that depends on the exposed interval pieces (that is, the pieces that are not covered by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Christoph Dürr , Maurice Queyranne , Frits C. R. Spieksma , Fabrice Talla Nobibon , Gerhard J. Woeginger

We consider the problem of analyzing and designing gradient-based discrete-time optimization algorithms for a class of unconstrained optimization problems having strongly convex objective functions with Lipschitz continuous gradient. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Simon Michalowsky , Carsten Scherer , Christian Ebenbauer

Integrated circuit design automation tools are essential for the feasibility of complex designs with millions of transistors. One of the steps performed within the process is the routing of interconnections between components of a circuit.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tiago Matos Santos

Natural disasters or attacks may disrupt infrastructure networks on a vast scale. Parts of the damaged network are interdependent, making it difficult to plan and optimally execute the recovery operations. To study how interdependencies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-13 Alexander Gutfraind , Milan Bradonjić , Tim Novikoff

We show that computing the interleaving distance between two multi-graded persistence modules is NP-hard. More precisely, we show that deciding whether two modules are $1$-interleaved is NP-complete, already for bigraded, interval…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Michael Kerber

In the first part of this paper, we present a unified framework for analyzing the algorithmic complexity of any optimization problem, whether it be continuous or discrete in nature. This helps to formalize notions like "input", "size" and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Amitabh Basu

Optimal control problems including partial differential equation (PDE) as well as integer constraints merge the combinatorial difficulties of integer programming and the challenges related to large-scale systems resulting from discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Dominik Garmatter , Margherita Porcelli , Francesco Rinaldi , Martin Stoll

In many submodular optimization applications, datasets are naturally partitioned into disjoint subsets. These scenarios give rise to submodular optimization problems with partition-based constraints, where the desired solution set should be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenjing Chen , Yixin Chen , Victoria G. Crawford

The objective of this article is to formalize the definition of NP problems. We construct a mathematical model of discrete problems as independence systems with weighted elements. We introduce two auxiliary sets that characterize the…

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