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Algorithmic fairness in clustering aims to balance the proportions of instances assigned to each cluster with respect to a given sensitive attribute. While recently developed fair clustering algorithms optimize clustering objectives under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kunwoong Kim , Jihu Lee , Sangchul Park , Yongdai Kim

It has been widely recognized that the performance of a multi-agent system is highly affected by its organization. A large scale system may have billions of possible ways of organization, which makes it impractical to find an optimal choice…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiqi Shen , Ling Yu , Han Yu

In evaluating an algorithm, worst-case analysis can be overly pessimistic. Average-case analysis can be overly optimistic. An intermediate approach is to show that an algorithm does well on a broad class of input distributions. Koutsoupias…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Neal E. Young

Online learning algorithms, widely used to power search and content optimization on the web, must balance exploration and exploitation, potentially sacrificing the experience of current users in order to gain information that will lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Manish Raghavan , Aleksandrs Slivkins , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Nature-inspired algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization and Firefly Algorithm are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. In this paper, we intend to formulate a new metaheuristic algorithm by combining Levy flights with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Xin-She Yang

This paper proposes a new method for hyperparameter optimization (HPO) that balances exploration and exploitation. While evolutionary algorithms (EAs) show promise in HPO, they often struggle with effective exploitation. To address this, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Chul Kim , Inwhee Joe

In STOC'16, Fraigniaud et al. consider the problem of finding a treasure hidden in one of many boxes that are ordered by importance. That is, if a treasure is in a more important box, then one would like to find it faster. Assuming there…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Amos Korman , Yoav Rodeh

This paper presents an implementation of the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for solving the fuzzy random portfolio selection problem where the asset returns are represented by fuzzy random variables. Portfolio Optimization is an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-21 Mir Ehsan Hesam Sadati , Jamshid Bagherzadeh Mohasefi

In this paper, we consider the problem of path finding for a set of homogeneous and autonomous agents navigating a previously unknown stochastic environment. In our problem setting, each agent attempts to maximize a given utility function…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sheryl Paul , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

One of the significant breakthroughs in quantum computation is Grover's algorithm for unsorted database search. Recently, the applications of Grover's algorithm to solve global optimization problems have been demonstrated, where unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yan Wang

Quantum search is a quantum mechanical technique for searching N possibilities in only sqrt(N) steps. This has been proved to be the best possible algorithm for the exhuastive search problem in the sense the number of queries it requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lov K. Grover

Finding a maximum or minimum is a fundamental building block in many mathematical models. Compared with classical algorithms, Durr, Hoyer's quantum algorithm (DHA) achieves quadratic speed. However, its key step, the quantum exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yanhu Chen , Shijie Wei , Xiong Gao , Cen Wang , Jian Wu , Hongxiang Guo

In this paper, we propose an inexact golden ratio primal-dual algorithm with linesearch step(IP-GRPDAL) for solving the saddle point problems, where two subproblems can be approximately solved by applying the notations of inexact extended…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Changjie Fang , Jinxiu Liu , Jingtao Qiu , Shenglan Chen

What is the most efficient search strategy for the random located target sites subject to the physical and biological constraints? Previous results suggested the L\'evy flight is the best option to characterize this optimal problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Caibin Zeng , YangQuan Chen

Increasing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are applied to solving the real-world optimization problems, as they have some advantages over the classical methods of numerical optimization. This paper has proposed a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bing Zeng , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li

There has been a long history for studying randomized greedy matching algorithms since the work by Dyer and Frieze~(RSA 1991). We follow this trend and consider the problem formulated in the oblivious setting, in which the algorithm makes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

We explore a two-step optimization problem in random environments, the so-called restaurant-coffee shop problem, where a walker aims at visiting the nearest and better restaurant in an area and then move to the nearest and better…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-30 Maya Miguel , Miramontes Octavio , Boyer Denis

Query plans are compared according to multiple cost metrics in multi-objective query optimization. The goal is to find the set of Pareto plans realizing optimal cost tradeoffs for a given query. So far, only algorithms with exponential…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

Gene selection is an important part of microarray data analysis because it provides information that can lead to a better mechanistic understanding of an investigated phenomenon. At the same time, gene selection is very difficult because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Miron B. Kursa

This paper evaluates algorithms for classification and outlier detection accuracies in temporal data. We focus on algorithms that train and classify rapidly and can be used for systems that need to incorporate new data regularly. Hence, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-03 Victoria J. Hodge , Jim Austin