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In the unsplittable flow problem on a path, we are given a capacitated path $P$ and $n$ tasks, each task having a demand, a profit, and start and end vertices. The goal is to compute a maximum profit set of tasks, such that for each edge…

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We study a class of semilinear diffusion equations on infinite, connected, weighted graphs, focusing on two types of nonlinearities: monotone decreasing and Lipschitz continuous. Under minimal structural assumptions on the graph, we…

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In this work, we are interested in adaptive and distributed estimation of graph filters from streaming data. We formulate this problem as a consensus estimation problem over graphs, which can be addressed with diffusion LMS strategies. Most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Fei Hua , Roula Nassif , Cédric Richard , Haiyan Wang , Ali H. Sayed

We develop a novel algorithm to construct a congestion-approximator with polylogarithmic quality on a capacitated, undirected graph in nearly-linear time. Our approach is the first *bottom-up* hierarchical construction, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jason Li , Satish Rao , Di Wang

Generative models based on flow matching have attracted significant attention for their simplicity and superior performance in high-resolution image synthesis. By leveraging the instantaneous change-of-variables formula, one can directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yasi Zhang , Peiyu Yu , Yaxuan Zhu , Yingshan Chang , Feng Gao , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong

We present a deterministic $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum matching algorithm in $\mathsf{poly} 1/\varepsilon$ passes in the semi-streaming model, solving the long-standing open problem of breaking the exponential barrier in the…

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We introduce a novel primal-dual flow for affine constrained convex optimization problems. As a modification of the standard saddle-point system, our primal-dual flow is proved to possess the exponential decay property, in terms of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Hao Luo

We consider the single-source shortest paths problem on a directed graph with real-valued (possibly negative) edge weights and solve this problem in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time by refining the shortcutting procedure introduced in Li, Li, Rao, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 George Z. Li , Jason Li , Junkai Zhang

We develop a new algorithmic technique that allows to transfer some constant time approximation algorithms for general graphs into random order streaming algorithms. We illustrate our technique by proving that in random order streams with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

We provide new high-accuracy randomized algorithms for solving linear systems and regression problems that are well-conditioned except for $k$ large singular values. For solving such $d \times d$ positive definite system our algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Michał Dereziński , Aaron Sidford

We provide a quasilinear time algorithm for the $p$-center problem with an additive error less than or equal to 3 times the input graph's hyperbolic constant. Specifically, for the graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and hyperbolic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Katherine Edwards , W. Sean Kennedy , Iraj Saniee

We consider a new semidefinite programming relaxation for directed edge expansion, which is obtained by adding triangle inequalities to the reweighted eigenvalue formulation. Applying the matrix multiplicative weight update method to this…

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We present a new strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization that is significantly simpler and faster than the previous strongly polynomial algorithm [V\'egh16]. For the uncapacitated problem formulation, the complexity…

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We investigate the scheduling of $n$ jobs divided into $c$ classes on $m$ identical parallel machines. For every class there is a setup time which is required whenever a machine switches from the processing of one class to another class.…

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We give a number of approximation metatheorems for monotone maximization problems expressible in the first-order logic, in substantially more general settings than the previously known. We obtain * constant-factor approximation algorithm in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zdeněk Dvořák

In the present study, the efficiency of preconditioners for solving linear systems associated with the discretized variable-density incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with semiimplicit second-order accuracy in time and spectral accuracy…

We give an $m^{1+o(1)}\beta^{o(1)}$-time algorithm for generating a uniformly random spanning tree in an undirected, weighted graph with max-to-min weight ratio $\beta$. We also give an $m^{1+o(1)}\epsilon^{-o(1)}$-time algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Aaron Schild

We suggest a new optimization technique for minimizing the sum $\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x)$ of $n$ non-convex real functions that satisfy a property that we call piecewise log-Lipschitz. This is by forging links between techniques in computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Ibrahim Jubran , Dan Feldman

We consider the online problem of minimizing weighted flow-time on unrelated machines. Although much is known about this problem in the resource-augmentation setting, these results assume that jobs can be preempted. We give the first…

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