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The Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST) problem is a generalization of the Steiner Tree problem that has applications in network design, content distribution networks, and many more. There are a few centralized approximation algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Parikshit Saikia , Sushanta Karmakar , Aris T. Pagourtzis

The Subset-Sums Ratio problem (SSR) is an optimization problem in which, given a set of integers, the goal is to find two subsets such that the ratio of their sums is as close to 1 as possible. In this paper we develop a new FPTAS for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Nikolaos Melissinos , Aris Pagourtzis

Now a days many algorithms are invented or being inventing to find the solution for Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree, EMST, problem, as its applicability is increasing in much wide range of fields containing spatial or spatio temporal data…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Hazarath Munaga , Venkata Jarugumalli

Euclidean Steiner trees are relevant to model minimal networks in real-world applications ubiquitously. In this paper, we study the feasibility of a hierarchical approach embedded with bundling operations to compute multiple and mutually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Victor Parque

Boosting Trees are one of the most successful statistical learning approaches that involve sequentially growing an ensemble of simple regression trees (i.e., "weak learners"). However, gradient boosted trees are not yet available for…

This work briefly explores the possibility of approximating spatial distance (alternatively, similarity) between data points using the Isolation Forest method envisioned for outlier detection. The logic is similar to that of isolation: the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-26 David Cortes

Matrix double splitting iterations are simple in implementation while solving real non-singular (rectangular) linear systems. In this paper, we present two Alternating Double Splitting (ADS) schemes formulated by two double splittings and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Ashish Kumar Nandi , Nachiketa Mishra , Debasisha Mishra

Decision trees partition the feature space using hard binary thresholds, assigning identical confidence to instances far from a decision boundary and to those directly on it. We introduce ternary decision trees, which augment each split…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 William Smits

In recent years, significant progress has been made on algorithms for learning optimal decision trees, primarily in the context of binary features. Extending these methods to continuous features remains substantially more challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Harold Kiossou , Pierre Schaus , Siegfried Nijssen

The Steiner tree problem aims to determine a minimum edge-weighted tree that spans a given set of terminal vertices from a given graph. In the past decade, a considerable number of algorithms have been developed to solve this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ming Sun , Xinyu Wu , Yi Zhou , Jin-Kao Hao , Zhang-Hua Fu

Dynamic programming on tree decompositions is a frequently used approach to solve otherwise intractable problems on instances of small treewidth. In recent work by Bodlaender et al., it was shown that for many connectivity problems, there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Stefan Fafianie , Hans L. Bodlaender , Jesper Nederlof

We present a stationary iteration method, namely Alternating Symmetric positive definite and Scaled symmetric positive semidefinite Splitting (ASSS), for solving the system of linear equations obtained by using finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

We consider the rooted orienteering problem in Euclidean space: Given $n$ points $P$ in $\mathbb R^d$, a root point $s\in P$ and a budget $\mathcal B>0$, find a path that starts from $s$, has total length at most $\mathcal B$, and visits as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Robert Krauthgamer , Havana Rika

We present a new exact algorithm for the Steiner tree problem in edge-weighted graphs. Our algorithm improves the classical dynamic programming approach by Dreyfus and Wagner. We achieve a significantly better practical performance via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Stefan Hougardy , Jannik Silvanus , Jens Vygen

We consider an incremental variant of the rooted prize-collecting Steiner-tree problem with a growing budget constraint. While no incremental solution exists that simultaneously approximates the optimum for all budgets, we show that a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yann Disser , Svenja M. Griesbach , Max Klimm , Annette Lutz

We present new approximation schemes for bin packing based on the following two approaches: (1) partitioning the given problem into mostly identical sub-problems of constant size and then construct a solution by combining the solutions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We study the problem of approximating a discrete probability distribution, such as the next-token distribution of a large language model, by a dyadic distribution induced by a binary tree under encoding rate constraints. The objective is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Daniella Bar-Lev , Farzad Farnoud , Ryan Gabrys

In their seminal work, Mustafa and Ray (2009) showed that a wide class of geometric set cover (SC) problems admit a PTAS via local search -- this is one of the most general approaches known for such problems. Their result applies if a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Steven Chaplick , Minati De , Alexander Ravsky , Joachim Spoerhase

We present approximation algorithms for the following NP-hard optimization problems related to bottleneck spanning trees in metric spaces. 1. The disjoint bottleneck spanning tree problem: Given $n$ pairs of points in a metric space, find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

We consider the problem of efficiently computing the maximum likelihood estimator in Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) when the number of observations is much larger than the number of coefficients ($n \gg p \gg 1$). In this regime,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Murat A. Erdogdu