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The Sparse Approximation problem asks to find a solution $x$ such that $||y - Hx|| < \alpha$, for a given norm $||\cdot||$, minimizing the size of the support $||x||_0 := \#\{j \ |\ x_j \neq 0 \}$. We present valid inequalities for Mixed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Diego Delle Donne , Matthieu Kowalski , Leo Liberti

A wide variety of problems in machine learning, including exemplar clustering, document summarization, and sensor placement, can be cast as constrained submodular maximization problems. A lot of recent effort has been devoted to developing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Rafael da Ponte Barbosa , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen , Justin Ward

We consider a discrete optimization formulation for learning sparse classifiers, where the outcome depends upon a linear combination of a small subset of features. Recent work has shown that mixed integer programming (MIP) can be used to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Antoine Dedieu , Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder

This present paper provides the absolutely necessary corrections to the previous work entitled {\it A polynomial Time Algorithm to Solve The Max-atom Problem} (arXiv:2106.08854v1). The max-atom-problem (MAP) deals with system of scalar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Laurent Truffet

Risk assessment tools in healthcare commonly employ point-based scoring systems that map patients to ordinal risk categories via thresholds. While electronic health record (EHR) data presents opportunities for data-driven optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Emmett Springer , Erik H. Hoyer , Daniel L. Young , Kimia Ghobadi

Maximum A posteriori Probability (MAP) inference in graphical models amounts to solving a graph-structured combinatorial optimization problem. Popular inference algorithms such as belief propagation (BP) and generalized belief propagation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Murat A. Erdogdu , Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

We introduce an efficient computational framework for solving a class of multi-marginal martingale optimal transport problems, which includes many robust pricing problems of large financial interest. Such problems are typically…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-21 Linn Engström , Sigrid Källblad , Johan Karlsson

A matrix optimization problem over an uncertain linear system on finite horizon (abbreviated as MOPUL) is studied, in which the uncertain transition matrix is regarded as a decision variable. This problem is in general NP-hard. By using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Jintao Xu , Shu-Cherng Fang , Wenxun Xing

In many applications including integer-forcing linear multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) receiver design, one needs to solve a successive minima problem (SMP) on an $n$-dimensional lattice to get an optimal integer coefficient matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Jinming Wen , Lanping Li , Xiaohu Tang , Wai Ho Mow

This paper is concerned with the problem of exact MAP inference in general higher-order graphical models by means of a traditional linear programming relaxation approach. In fact, the proof that we have developed in this paper is a rather…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Ikhlef Bechar

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference in discrete-valued Markov random fields is a fundamental problem in machine learning that involves identifying the most likely configuration of random variables given a distribution. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jonathan N. Lee , Aldo Pacchiano , Peter Bartlett , Michael I. Jordan

Classes of set functions along with a choice of ground set are a bedrock to determine and develop corresponding variants of greedy algorithms to obtain efficient solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. The class of approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Praneeth Vepakomma , Yulia Kempner , Ramesh Raskar

LP relaxation-based message passing algorithms provide an effective tool for MAP inference over Probabilistic Graphical Models. However, different LP relaxations often have different objective functions and variables of differing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Zhen Zhang , Qinfeng Shi , Yanning Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

We study the complexity of solving the \emph{generalized MinRank problem}, i.e. computing the set of points where the evaluation of a polynomial matrix has rank at most $r$. A natural algebraic representation of this problem gives rise to a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jean-Charles Faugère , Mohab Safey El Din , Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer

Estimating conditional dependence graphs and precision matrices are some of the most common problems in modern statistics and machine learning. When data are fully observed, penalized maximum likelihood-type estimators have become standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Roger Fan , Byoungwook Jang , Yuekai Sun , Shuheng Zhou

We develop primal-dual coordinate methods for solving bilinear saddle-point problems of the form $\min_{x \in \mathcal{X}} \max_{y\in\mathcal{Y}} y^\top A x$ which contain linear programming, classification, and regression as special cases.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yair Carmon , Yujia Jin , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

This paper combines two ingredients in order to get a rather surprising result on one of the most studied, elegant and powerful tools for solving convex feasibility problems, the method of alternating projections (MAP). Going back to names…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Roger Behling , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Luiz-Rafael Santos

This paper surveys the trend of leveraging machine learning to solve mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. Theoretically, MIP is an NP-hard problem, and most of the combinatorial optimization (CO) problems can be formulated as the MIP.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jiayi Zhang , Chang Liu , Junchi Yan , Xijun Li , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan

Several algorithms are available in the literature for finding the entire set of Pareto-optimal solutions in MultiObjective Linear Programming (MOLP). However, it has not been proposed so far an interior point algorithm that finds all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Víctor Blanco , Justo Puerto , Safae El-Haj Ben-Ali

We propose a hierarchical architecture for efficiently computing high-quality solutions to structured mixed-integer programs (MIPs). To reduce computational effort, our approach decouples the original problem into a higher level problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Stefan Clarke , Bartolomeo Stellato