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Recently various optimization problems, such as Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problems (MILPs), have undergone comprehensive investigation, leveraging the capabilities of machine learning. This work focuses on learning-based solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhentao Tan , Yadong Mu

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important discrete optimization instance that encompasses many well-known combinatorial optimization problems, and has applications in a wide range of areas such as logistics and computer vision.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Junyu Chen , Yong Sheng Soh

We show how to determine whether a given pattern p of length m occurs in a given text t of length n in ${\tilde O}(\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{m})$\footnote{${\tilde O}$ allows for logarithmic factors in m and $n/m$} time, with inverse polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ramesh , V. Vinay

We prove that checking if a partial matrix is partial totally positive is co-NP-complete. This contrasts with checking a conventional matrix for total positivity, for which we provide a cubic time algorithm. Checking partial sign regularity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Daniel Carter , Charles Johnson

We present a proximal augmented Lagrangian based solver for general convex quadratic programs (QPs), relying on semismooth Newton iterations with exact line search to solve the inner subproblems. The exact line search reduces in this case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Ben Hermans , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos

Quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT) have provided a unified framework for understanding many quantum algorithms, including factorization, matrix inversion, and Hamiltonian simulation. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yuki Ito , Hitomi Mori , Kazuki Sakamoto , Keisuke Fujii

We consider the problem of preprocessing an $n\times n$ matrix $\mathbf{M}$, and supporting queries that, for any vector $v$, returns the matrix-vector product $\mathbf{M} v$. This problem has been extensively studied in both theory and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Emile Anand , Jan van den Brand , Rose McCarty

We study the Matrix Multiplication Verification Problem (MMV) where the goal is, given three $n \times n$ matrices $A$, $B$, and $C$ as input, to decide whether $AB = C$. A classic randomized algorithm by Freivalds (MFCS, 1979) solves MMV…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Huck Bennett , Karthik Gajulapalli , Alexander Golovnev , Evelyn Warton

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are a fundamental class of optimization problems well-known to be NP-hard in general. In this paper we study sufficient conditions for a convex hull result that immediately implies that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Alex L. Wang , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

Quadratic Programming (QP) is the well-studied problem of maximizing over {-1,1} values the quadratic form \sum_{i \ne j} a_{ij} x_i x_j. QP captures many known combinatorial optimization problems, and assuming the unique games conjecture,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Rajsekar Manokaran , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) has long been recognized as a computationally challenging problem, particularly in large-scale or high-dimensional settings where solving it directly becomes intractable. The complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Shuai Li , Shenglong Zhou , Ziyan Luo

This paper is concerned with a covering problem of Euclidean space by a particular arrangement of cones that are not necessarily full and are allowed to overlap. The problem provides an equivalent geometric reformulation of the solvability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Khalil Ghorbal , Christelle Kozaily

Many natural combinatorial problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems. This class of problems is known to be NP-complete in general, but certain restrictions on the form of the constraints can ensure tractability. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

The worst-case robust adaptive beamforming problem for general-rank signal model is considered. This is a nonconvex problem, and an approximate version of it (obtained by introducing a matrix decomposition on the presumed covariance matrix…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Yongwei Huang , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Zhi-Quan Luo

Given a polynomial $x \in {\mathbb R}^n \mapsto p(x)$ in $n=2$ variables, a symbolic-numerical algorithm is first described for detecting whether the connected component of the plane sublevel set ${\mathcal P} = \{x : p(x) \geq 0\}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-24 Didier Henrion

We study the complexity of algorithmic problems for matrices that are represented by multi-terminal decision diagrams (MTDD). These are a variant of ordered decision diagrams, where the terminal nodes are labeled with arbitrary elements of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Markus Lohrey , Manfred Schmidt-Schauss

We study a multi-period convex quadratic optimization problem, where the state evolves dynamically as an affine function of the state, control, and indicator variables in each period. We begin by projecting out the state variables using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jisun Lee , Andrés Gómez , Alper Atamtürk

Quadratic assignment problems are a fundamental class of combinatorial optimization problems which are ubiquitous in applications, yet their exact resolution is NP-hard. To circumvent this impasse, it was proposed to regularize such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Venkatkrishna Karumanchi , Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld

This paper examines the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems using an iterative method. One of the existing approaches for solving nonconvex QCQP problems relaxes the rank one constraint on the unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Chuangchuang Sun , Ran Dai

We present a method for solving the general mixed constrained convex quadratic programming problem using an active set method on the dual problem. The approach is similar to existing active set methods, but we present a new way of solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Mattias Fält , Pontus Giselsson