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This paper explores the enhancement of solution diversity in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for the maximum matching problem, concentrating on complete bipartite graphs and paths. We adopt binary string encoding for matchings and use Hamming…

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Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) is a method used to search for genomic regions with copy numbers variations. For a given aCGH profile, one challenge is to accurately segment it into regions of constant copy number.…

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Sequence alignment is a cornerstone technique in computational biology for assessing similarities and differences among biological sequences. A key variant, sequence-to-graph alignment, plays a crucial role in effectively capturing genetic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xingfu Li

Tomography is an imaging technique that works by reconstructing a scene from acquired data in the form of line integrals of the imaging domain. A fundamental underlying assumption in the reconstruction procedure is the precise alignment of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Toby Sanders

We consider string matching with variable length gaps. Given a string $T$ and a pattern $P$ consisting of strings separated by variable length gaps (arbitrary strings of length in a specified range), the problem is to find all ending…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Philip Bille , Inge Li Goertz , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj , David Kofoed Wind

We consider the following basic problem: given an $n$-variate degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomial $f$ with real coefficients, compute a unit vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ that maximizes $|f(x)|$. Besides its fundamental nature, this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Mrinalkanti Ghosh , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Madhur Tulsiani

Background: Haplotypes, the ordered lists of single nucleotide variations that distinguish chromosomal sequences from their homologous pairs, may reveal an individual's susceptibility to hereditary and complex diseases and affect how our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Abishek Sankararaman , Haris Vikalo , François Baccelli

Phylogenetic networks are used to display the relationship of different species whose evolution is not treelike, which is the case, for instance, in the presence of hybridization events or horizontal gene transfers. Tree inference methods…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-02 Mareike Fischer , Leo van Iersel , Steven Kelk , Celine Scornavacca

Over the past two decades, a series of works have aimed at studying the problem of genome assembly: the process of reconstructing a genome from sequence reads. An early formulation of the genome assembly problem showed that genome…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-30 Henry Lin

Pairwise compatibility calculation is at the core of most fragments-reconstruction algorithms, in particular those designed to solve different types of the jigsaw puzzle problem. However, most existing approaches fail, or aren't designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ofir Itzhak Shahar , Gur Elkin , Ohad Ben-Shahar

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

The (Perfect) Matching Cut problem is to decide if a graph $G$ has a (perfect) matching cut, i.e., a (perfect) matching that is also an edge cut of $G$. Both Matching Cut and Perfect Matching Cut are known to be NP-complete. A perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

The abelian pattern matching problem consists in finding all substrings of a text which are permutations of a given pattern. This problem finds application in many areas and can be solved in linear time by a naive sliding window approach.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone

All fields of science depend on mathematical models. Occam's razor refers to the principle that good models should exclude parameters beyond those minimally required to describe the systems they represent. This is because redundancy can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Botond B Antal , Anthony G Chesebro , Helmut H Strey , Lilianne R Mujica-Parodi , Corey Weistuch

In this paper, we develop two new randomized block-coordinate optimistic gradient algorithms to approximate a solution of nonlinear equations in large-scale settings, which are called root-finding problems. Our first algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yang Luo

We extend a primal-dual fixed point algorithm (PDFP) proposed in [5] to solve two kinds of separable multi-block minimization problems, arising in signal processing and imaging science. This work shows the flexibility of applying PDFP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Fully Convolutional Networks have been achieving remarkable results in image semantic segmentation, while being efficient. Such efficiency results from the capability of segmenting several voxels in a single forward pass. So, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Sergio Pereira , Adriano Pinto , Joana Amorim , Alexandrine Ribeiro , Victor Alves , Carlos A. Silva

We study the problem of change point localization in dynamic networks models. We assume that we observe a sequence of independent adjacency matrices of the same size, each corresponding to a realization of an unknown inhomogeneous Bernoulli…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-22 Daren Wang , Yi Yu , Alessandro Rinaldo

The NP-hard Distinct Vectors problem asks to delete as many columns as possible from a matrix such that all rows in the resulting matrix are still pairwise distinct. Our main result is that, for binary matrices, there is a complexity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Vincent Froese , René van Bevern , Rolf Niedermeier , Manuel Sorge

Binary size reduction is an increasingly important optimization objective for compilers. One emerging technique is function merging, where multiple similar functions are merged into one, thereby eliminating redundancy. The SOTA approach to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amir K. Goharshady , Kerim Kochekov , Tian Shu , Ahmed Khaled Zaher