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Linear Programming (LP) is widely applied in industry and is a key component of various other mathematical problem-solving techniques. Recent work introduced an LP compiler translating polynomial-time, polynomial-space algorithms into…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shermin Khosravi , David Bremner

The classic algorithm [Papadimitriou, J.ACM '81] for IPs has a running time $n^{O(m)}(m\cdot\max\{\Delta,\|\textbf{b}\|_{\infty}\})^{O(m^2)}$, where $m$ is the number of constraints, $n$ is the number of variables, and $\Delta$ and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Hauke Brinkop , Hua Chen , Lin Chen , Klaus Jansen , Guochuan Zhang

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is at the core of many advanced algorithms for solving fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. The complexity of solving MILPs directly correlates with their support size, which is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sebastian Berndt , Hauke Brinkop , Klaus Jansen , Matthias Mnich , Tobias Stamm

The System of Linear Equations Problem (SLEP) is specified by a complex invertible matrix $A$, the condition number $\kappa$ of $A$, a vector $b$, a Hermitian matrix $M$ and an accuracy $\epsilon$, and the task is to estimate $x^\dagger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Abhijeet Alase , Robert R. Nerem , Mohsen Bagherimehrab , Peter Høyer , Barry C. Sanders

Floor planning is an important and difficult task in architecture. When planning office buildings, rooms that belong to the same organisational unit should be placed close to each other. This leads to the following NP-hard mathematical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jonathan Klawitter , Felix Klesen , Alexander Wolff

The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) has recently emerged as an important tool for solving large-scale linear programs (LPs). For LPs with unique optima, we present an iteration bound of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Zikai Xiong

Powerful results from the theory of integer programming have recently led to substantial advances in parameterized complexity. However, our perception is that, except for Lenstra's algorithm for solving integer linear programming in fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký

A seminal result of H\r{a}stad [J. ACM, 48(4):798--859, 2001] shows that it is NP-hard to find an assignment that satisfies $\frac{1}{|G|}+\varepsilon$ fraction of the constraints of a given $k$-LIN instance over an abelian group, even if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Amey Bhangale , Subhash Khot

The problem of computing minimally sparse solutions of under-determined linear systems is $NP$ hard in general. Subsets with extra properties, may allow efficient algorithms, most notably problems with the restricted isometry property (RIP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 G. Welper

Solving integer programs of the form $\min \{\mathbf{x} \mid A\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{b}, \mathbf{l} \leq \mathbf{x} \leq \mathbf{u}, \mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{Z}^n \}$ is, in general, $\mathsf{NP}$-hard. Hence, great effort has been put into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Marcin Briański , Alexandra Lassota , Kristýna Pekárková , Michał Pilipczuk , Janina Reuter

We consider integer programming problems $\max \{ c^T x : \mathcal{A} x = b, l \leq x \leq u, x \in \mathbb{Z}^{nt}\}$ where $\mathcal{A}$ has a (recursive) block-structure generalizing "$n$-fold integer programs" which recently received…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Christoph Hunkenschröder , Kim-Manuel Klein

For a given linear program (LP) a permutation of its variables that sends feasible points to feasible points and preserves the objective function value of each of its feasible points is a symmetry of the LP. The set of all symmetries of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Andrew J. Geyer , Dursun A. Bulutoglu , Kenneth J. Ryan

Kernelization is a theoretical formalization of efficient preprocessing for NP-hard problems. Empirically, preprocessing is highly successful in practice, for example in state-of-the-art ILP-solvers like CPLEX. Motivated by this, previous…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

In numerical linear algebra, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining faster algorithms for linear systems whose underlying matrices exhibit structural properties. A prominent success story is the method of generalized nested…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sally Dong , Gramoz Goranci , Lawrence Li , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

We consider integer programming problems in standard form $\max \{c^Tx : Ax = b, \, x\geq 0, \, x \in Z^n\}$ where $A \in Z^{m \times n}$, $b \in Z^m$ and $c \in Z^n$. We show that such an integer program can be solved in time $(m…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Robert Weismantel

Since the elimination algorithm of Fourier and Motzkin, many different methods have been developed for solving linear programs. When analyzing the time complexity of LP algorithms, it is typically either assumed that calculations are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Ambros Gleixner , Daniel E. Steffy

We study optimal decision policies for integer linear programs with a fixed feasible set and varying cost vectors, represented as linear decision trees. Once synthesized for a given feasible set, they return an optimal solution for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Théo Guyard , Cleber Oliveira , Maximilian Schiffer , Eduardo Uchoa , Thibaut Vidal

The standard formalization of preprocessing in parameterized complexity is given by kernelization. In this work, we depart from this paradigm and study a different type of preprocessing for problems without polynomial kernels, still aiming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Michał Włodarczyk

In this paper, we show how a resource allocation problem can be solved through Integer Linear Programming (ILP). A detailed illustrative example is presented, together with an exhaustive overview of the mathematical model. The size of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Filip De Turck

Structured output prediction problems (e.g., sequential tagging, hierarchical multi-class classification) often involve constraints over the output label space. These constraints interact with the learned models to filter infeasible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tao Meng , Kai-Wei Chang