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Lazy search algorithms have been developed to efficiently solve planning problems in domains where the computational effort is dominated by the cost of edge evaluation. The existing algorithms operate by intelligently balancing…

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This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

Large-scale genomic workflows used in precision medicine can process datasets spanning tens to hundreds of gigabytes per sample, leading to high memory spikes, intensive disk I/O, and task failures due to out-of-memory errors. Simple static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Daniel Mas Montserrat , Ray Verma , Míriam Barrabés , Francisco M. de la Vega , Carlos D. Bustamante , Alexander G. Ioannidis

In many robotics applications, multiple robots are working in a shared workspace to complete a set of tasks as fast as possible. Such settings can be treated as multi-modal multi-robot multi-goal path planning problems, where each robot has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Valentin N. Hartmann , Tirza Heinle , Yijiang Huang , Stelian Coros

The vast amounts of data used in social, business or traffic networks, biology and other natural sciences are often managed in graph-based data sets, consisting of a few thousand up to billions and trillions of vertices and edges,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Matthias Hauck , Ismail Oukid , Holger Fröning

The sheer sizes of modern datasets are forcing data-structure designers to consider seriously both parallel construction and compactness. To achieve those goals we need to design a parallel algorithm with good scalability and with low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Leo Ferres , José Fuentes-Sepúlveda , Travis Gagie , Meng He , Gonzalo Navarro

For many applications in signal processing and machine learning, we are tasked with minimizing a large sum of convex functions subject to a large number of convex constraints. In this paper, we devise a new random projection method (RPM) to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Zhichun Yang , Fu-quan Xia , Kai Tu , Man-Chung Yue

We study distributed algorithms implemented in a simplified biologically inspired model for stochastic spiking neural networks. We focus on tradeoffs between computation time and network complexity, along with the role of randomness in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Nancy Lynch , Cameron Musco , Merav Parter

Traditional heterogeneous parallel algorithms, designed for heterogeneous clusters of workstations, are based on the assumption that the absolute speed of the processors does not depend on the size of the computational task. This assumption…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-15 Alexey Lastovetsky , Ravi Reddy , Vladimir Rychkov , David Clarke

We present a new parallel algorithm for solving triangular systems with multiple right hand sides (TRSM). TRSM is used extensively in numerical linear algebra computations, both to solve triangular linear systems of equations as well as to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Tobias Wicky , Edgar Solomonik , Torsten Hoefler

Supercomputers are equipped with an increasingly large number of cores to use computational power as a way of solving problems that are otherwise intractable. Unfortunately, getting serial algorithms to run in parallel to take advantage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Khuzaima Daudjee , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

We investigate the global scheduling of sporadic, implicit deadline, real-time task systems on multiprocessor platforms. We provide a task model which integrates job parallelism. We prove that the time-complexity of the feasibility problem…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-05-22 S. Collette , L. Cucu , J. Goossens

We describe a parallel approximation algorithm for maximizing monotone submodular functions subject to hereditary constraints on distributed memory multiprocessors. Our work is motivated by the need to solve submodular optimization problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shivaram Gopal , S M Ferdous , Hemanta K. Maji , Alex Pothen

In this paper we show that many sequential randomized incremental algorithms are in fact parallel. We consider algorithms for several problems including Delaunay triangulation, linear programming, closest pair, smallest enclosing disk,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Julian Shun , Yihan Sun

We consider the problem of solving integer programs of the form $\min \{\,c^\intercal x\ \colon\ Ax=b, x\geq 0\}$, where $A$ is a multistage stochastic matrix in the following sense: the primal treedepth of $A$ is bounded by a parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Jana Cslovjecsek , Friedrich Eisenbrand , Michał Pilipczuk , Moritz Venzin , Robert Weismantel

We study the computational complexity of optimally solving multi-robot path planning problems on planar graphs. For four common time- and distance-based objectives, we show that the associated path optimization problems for multiple robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingjin Yu

Computing an optimal classification tree that provably maximizes training performance within a given size limit, is NP-hard, and in practice, most state-of-the-art methods do not scale beyond computing optimal trees of depth three.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Catalin E. Brita , Jacobus G. M. van der Linden , Emir Demirović

In this paper, we consider the problem of stochastic optimization, where the objective function is in terms of the expectation of a (possibly non-convex) cost function that is parametrized by a random variable. While the convergence speed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Naeimeh Omidvar , An Liu , Vincent Lau , Danny H. K. Tsang , Mohammad Reza Pakravan

To construct a parallel approach for solving optimization problems with orthogonality constraints is usually regarded as an extremely difficult mission, due to the low scalability of the orthonormalization procedure. However, such demand is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Bin Gao , Xin Liu , Ya-xiang Yuan

It is commonly believed that scaling language models should commit a significant space or time cost, by increasing the parameters (parameter scaling) or output tokens (inference-time scaling). We introduce the third and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Mouxiang Chen , Binyuan Hui , Zeyu Cui , Jiaxi Yang , Dayiheng Liu , Jianling Sun , Junyang Lin , Zhongxin Liu