English
Related papers

Related papers: A Message Passing Algorithm for the Minimum Cost M…

200 papers

We present a message passing method for 0-1 integer linear programs. Our algorithm is based on a decomposition of the original problem into subproblems that are represented as binary decision diagrams. The resulting Lagrangean dual is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Jan-Hendrik Lange , Paul Swoboda

We consider the problem of establishing minimum-cost multicast connections over coded packet networks, i.e. packet networks where the contents of outgoing packets are arbitrary, causal functions of the contents of received packets. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Desmond S. Lun , Niranjan Ratnakar , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , David R. Karger , Tracey Ho , Ebad Ahmed , Fang Zhao

Numerical solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers using domain decomposition usually requires synchronization and communication among the processors. These operations often have a significant overhead in terms of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Soumyadip Ghosh , Jiacai Lu , Vijay Gupta , Gretar Tryggvason

This paper presents a time decomposition strategy to reduce the computational complexity of power system multi-interval operation problems. We focus on the economic dispatch problem. The considered scheduling horizon is decomposed into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Farnaz Safdarian , Okan Ciftci , Amin Kargarian

Computing maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation in graphical models is an important inference problem with many applications. We present message-passing algorithms for quadratic programming (QP) formulations of MAP estimation for pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Akshat Kumar , Shlomo Zilberstein

In this paper, we discuss the maximum flow problem in the two-party communication model, where two parties, each holding a subset of edges on a common vertex set, aim to compute the maximum flow of the union graph with minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang

In this paper we study the data exchange problem where a set of users is interested in gaining access to a common file, but where each has only partial knowledge about it as side-information. Assuming that the file is broken into packets,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Nebojsa Milosavljevic , Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Michael Gastpar , Kannan Ramchandran

Joint object matching, also known as multi-image matching, namely, the problem of finding consistent partial maps among all pairs of objects within a collection, is a crucial task in many areas of computer vision. This problem subsumes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Antonio De Rosa , Aida Khajavirad

High-level applications, such as machine learning, are evolving from simple models based on multilayer perceptrons for simple image recognition to much deeper and more complex neural networks for self-driving vehicle control systems.The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Guixiang Ma , Yao Xiao , Theodore L. Willke , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

This paper seeks to address the question of designing distributed algorithms for the setting of compact memory i.e. sublinear bits working memory for arbitrary connected networks. The nodes in our networks may have much lower internal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Armando Castañeda , Jonas Lefèvre , Amitabh Trehan

We propose a novel distributed resource allocation scheme for the up-link of a cellular multi-carrier system based on the message passing (MP) algorithm. In the proposed approach each transmitter iteratively sends and receives information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Andrea Abrardo , Paolo Detti , Marco Moretti

Bilevel programming problems frequently arise in real-world applications across various fields, including transportation, economics, energy markets and healthcare. These problems have been proven to be NP-hard even in the simplest form with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Sina Hajikazemi , Florian Steinke

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the best approximation of a given matrix onto the intersection of linear equalities, inequalities and the doubly nonnegative cone (the cone of all positive semidefinite matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Kawarabayashi and Sidiropoulos [KS22] obtained an $O(\log^2 n)$-approximation algorithm for Multicut in planar digraphs via a natural LP relaxation, which also establishes a corresponding upper bound on the multicommodity flow-cut gap.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chandra Chekuri , Rhea Jain

We propose a novel multi-scale message passing neural network algorithm for learning the solutions of time-dependent PDEs. Our algorithm possesses both temporal and spatial multi-scale resolution features by incorporating multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Léonard Equer , T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra

The distributed linearly separable computation problem finds extensive applications across domains such as distributed gradient coding, distributed linear transform, real-time rendering, etc. In this paper, we investigate this problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoning Chen , Minquan Cheng , Zhenhao Huang , Youlong Wu

In this letter, we introduce a novel message-passing algorithm for a class of problems which can be mathematically understood as estimating volume-related properties of random polytopes. Unlike the usual approach consisting in approximating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-23 Francesc Font-Clos , Francesco Alessandro Massucci , Isaac Pérez Castillo

Round complexity is an extensively studied metric of distributed algorithms. In contrast, our knowledge of the \emph{message complexity} of distributed computing problems and its relationship (if any) with round complexity is still quite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Fabien Dufoulon , Shreyas Pai , Gopal Pandurangan , Sriram Pemmaraju , Peter Robinson

Identifying central nodes using closeness centrality is a critical task in analyzing large-scale complex networks, yet its decentralized computation remains challenging due to high communication overhead. Existing distributed approximation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Patrick D. Manya , Eugene M. Mbuyi , Gothy T. Ngoie , Jordan F. Masakuna

We focus on two central themes in this dissertation. The first one is on decomposing polytopes and polynomials in ways that allow us to perform nonlinear optimization. We start off by explaining important results on decomposing a polytope…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Brandon Dutra