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In many real-world routing problems, decision makers must optimise over sparse graphs such as transportation networks with non-metric costs on the edges that do not obey the triangle inequality. Motivated by finding a sufficiently long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Patrick O'Hara , M. S. Ramanujan , Theodoros Damoulas

In this paper, we study the problem of map matching with travel time constraints. Given a sequence of $k$ spatio-temporal measurements and an embedded path graph with travel time costs, the goal is to snap each measurement to a close-by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yannick Bosch , Sabine Storandt

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Xun Tang , Holakou Rahmanian , Michael Shavlovsky , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

The computational cost of searching for new pulsars is a limiting factor for upcoming radio telescopes such as SKA. We introduce four new algorithms: an optimal constant-period search, a coherent tree search which permits optimal searching…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-24 Kendrick M. Smith

We study the $k^-$-star partition problem that aims to find a minimum collection of vertex-disjoint stars, each having at most $k$ vertices to cover all vertices in a simple undirected graph $G = (V, E)$. Our main contribution is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Mingyang Gong , Guohui Lin , Brendan Mumey

Restricted star colouring is a variant of star colouring introduced to design heuristic algorithms to estimate sparse Hessian matrices. For $k\in\mathbb{N}$, a $k$-restricted star colouring ($k$-rs colouring) of a graph $G$ is a function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Shalu M. A. , Cyriac Antony

In this paper, we propose a new technique named \textit{Stochastic Path-Integrated Differential EstimatoR} (SPIDER), which can be used to track many deterministic quantities of interest with significantly reduced computational cost. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Cong Fang , Chris Junchi Li , Zhouchen Lin , Tong Zhang

Resource allocation with quality of service constraints is one of the most challenging problems in elastic optical networks which is normally formulated as an MINLP optimization program. In this paper, we focus on novel properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Mohammad Hadi , Mohammad Reza Pakravan

In the dynamic Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ subject to edge insertions and deletions and a source vertex $s\in V$, and the goal is to maintain the distance $d(s,t)$ for all $t\in V$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

High-Order, High-Dimension, and Sparse Tensor (HOHDST) data originates from real industrial applications, i.e., social networks, recommender systems, bio-information, and traffic information. Sparse Tensor Decomposition (STD) can project…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zixuan Li

This paper presents a sampling-based method for optimal motion planning in non-holonomic systems in the absence of known cost functions. It uses the principle of learning through experience to deduce the cost-to-go of regions within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nahas Pareekutty , Francis James , Balaraman Ravindran , Suril V. Shah

The large communication cost for exchanging gradients between different nodes significantly limits the scalability of distributed training for large-scale learning models. Motivated by this observation, there has been significant recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Leighton Pate Barnes , Huseyin A. Inan , Berivan Isik , Ayfer Ozgur

This paper develops an efficient algorithm for computing the Euclidean projection onto the top-k-sum constraint, a key operation in financial risk management and matrix optimization problems. Existing projection methods rely on sorting and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Jianting Pan , Ming Yan

We consider several basic questions on distributed routing in directed graphs with multiple additive costs, or metrics, and multiple constraints. Distributed routing in this sense is used in several protocols, such as IS-IS and OSPF. A…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sergey Komech , Andrey Kupavskii , Alexei Vezolainen

We study the optimization of navigational graph queries, i.e., queries which combine recursive and pattern-matching fragments. Current approaches to their evaluation are not effective in practice. Towards addressing this, we present a…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Thomas Mulder , George Fletcher , Nikolay Yakovets

Finding a Steiner strongly $k$-arc-connected orientation is particularly relevant in network design and reliability, as it guarantees robust communication between a designated set of critical nodes. Kir\'aly and Lau (FOCS 2006) introduced a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kristóf Bérczi , Florian Hörsch , András Imolay , Tamás Schwarcz

The problem of identifying the k-shortest paths KSPs for short in a dynamic road network is essential to many location-based services. Road networks are dynamic in the sense that the weights of the edges in the corresponding graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ziqiang Yu , Xiaohui Yu , Nick Koudas , Yueting Chen , Yang Liu

Optimal curve methods provide a fundamental framework for tubular centerline tracking. Point-wise approaches, such as minimal paths, are theoretically elegant but often suffer from shortcut and short-branch combination problems in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chong Di , Jinglin Zhang , Zhenjiang Li , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Da Chen , Laurent D. Cohen

Coresets are modern data-reduction tools that are widely used in data analysis to improve efficiency in terms of running time, space and communication complexity. Our main result is a fast algorithm to construct a small coreset for k-Median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Vladimir Braverman , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

Traffic routing is vital for the proper functioning of the Internet. As users and network traffic increase, researchers try to develop adaptive and intelligent routing algorithms that can fulfill various QoS requirements. Reinforcement…

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