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In this paper we study the {\it bilinear assignment problem} (BAP) with size parameters $m$ and $n$, $m\leq n$. BAP is a generalization of the well known quadratic assignment problem and the three dimensional assignment problem and hence…

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Assuming a cloning oracle, satisfiability, which is an NP complete problem, is shown to belong to $BPP^C$ and $BQP^C$ (depending on the ability of the oracle C to clone either a binary random variable or a qubit). The same result is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John A. Drakopoulos , Theodore N. Tomaras

Solving nonlinear optimal control problems is a challenging task, particularly for high-dimensional problems. We propose algorithms for model-based policy iterations to solve nonlinear optimal control problems with convergence guarantees.…

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In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

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In phylogenetics, the consensus problem consists in summarizing a set of phylogenetic trees that all classify the same set of species into a single tree. Several definitions of consensus exist in the literature; in this paper we focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Manuel Lafond , Céline Scornavacca

We study a class of combinatorial scheduling problems characterized by a particular type of constraint often associated with electrical power or gas energy. This constraint appears in several practical applications and is expressed as a sum…

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This work tackles the fundamental challenges in Federated Learning (FL) posed by arbitrary client participation and data heterogeneity, prevalent characteristics in practical FL settings. It is well-established that popular FedAvg-style…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bicheng Ying , Zhe Li , Haibo Yang

We study increasing subsequences (IS) for an ensemble of sequences given by permutation of numbers {1,2,...,n}. We consider a Boltzmann ensemble at temperature T. Thus each IS appears with the corresponding Boltzmann probability where the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-08 P. Krabbe , H. Schawe , A. K. Hartmann

Partitioning the vertices of a graph into two roughly equal parts while minimizing the number of edges crossing the cut is a fundamental problem (called Balanced Separator) that arises in many settings. For this problem, and variants such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop , Yuan Zhou

This thesis investigates the extent to which the optimal value of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be approximated by some sentence of fixed point logic with counting (FPC). It is known that, assuming $\mathsf{P} \neq…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

We resolve the computational complexity of two problems known as NECKLACE-SPLITTING and DISCRETE HAM SANDWICH, showing that they are PPA-complete. For NECKLACE SPLITTING, this result is specific to the important special case in which two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Paul W. Goldberg

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are essential measuring devices for monitoring, control and protection of power systems. The objective of the optimal PMU placement (OPP) problem is to minimize the number of PMUs and select the bus locations…

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In this paper we consider one particular mathematical problem of this large area of fractional powers of self-adjoined elliptic operators, defined either by Dunford-Taylor-like integrals or by the representation through the spectrum of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Stanislav Harizanov , Raytcho Lazarov , Svetozar Margenov , Pencho Marinov

Reducing the conditions under which a given set satisfies the stipulations of the subset sum proposition to a set of linear relationships, the question of whether a set satisfies subset sum may be answered in a polynomial number of steps by…

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Low-rank tensor completion problem aims to recover a tensor from limited observations, which has many real-world applications. Due to the easy optimization, the convex overlapping nuclear norm has been popularly used for tensor completion.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Quanming Yao , James T Kwok , Bo Han

Define Minimum Soapy Union (MinSU) as the following optimization problem: given a $k$-tuple $(X_1, X_2,..., X_k)$ of finite integer sets, find a $k$-tuple $(t_1, t_2,..., t_k)$ of integers that minimizes the cardinality of $(X_1 + t_1) \cup…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Francois Nicolas , Sebastian Böcker

Satisfiability-based verification techniques, leveraging modern Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, have demonstrated efficacy in addressing practical problem instances within program analysis.…

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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

Perfect Matching-Cut is the problem of deciding whether a graph has a perfect matching that contains an edge-cut. We show that this problem is NP-complete for planar graphs with maximum degree four, for planar graphs with girth five, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Valentin Bouquet , Christophe Picouleau

Linear exact modeling is a problem coming from system identification: Given a set of observed trajectories, the goal is find a model (usually, a system of partial differential and/or difference equations) that explains the data as precisely…

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