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We study the knapsack problem with graph theoretic constraints. That is, we assume that there exists a graph structure on the set of items of knapsack and the solution also needs to satisfy certain graph theoretic properties on top of…

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We provide a framework to approximate the 2-Wasserstein distance and the optimal transport map, amenable to efficient training as well as statistical and geometric analysis. With the quadratic cost and considering the Kantorovich dual form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Amin Jalali

In the knapsack problem under explorable uncertainty, we are given a knapsack instance with uncertain item profits. Instead of having access to the precise profits, we are only given uncertainty intervals that are guaranteed to contain the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jens Schlöter

Constrained optimization with multiple functional inequality constraints has significant applications in machine learning. This paper examines a crucial subset of such problems where both the objective and constraint functions are weakly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ming Yang , Gang Li , Quanqi Hu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

This paper addresses the Quadratic Multiple Constraints Variable-Sized Bin Packing Problem (QMC-VSBPP), a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that generalizes the classical bin packing problem by incorporating multiple capacity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Natalia A. Santos , Marlon Jeske , Antonio A. Chaves

Quadratic assignment problems are a fundamental class of combinatorial optimization problems which are ubiquitous in applications, yet their exact resolution is NP-hard. To circumvent this impasse, it was proposed to regularize such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Venkatkrishna Karumanchi , Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld

A convex envelope for the problem of finding the best approximation to a given matrix with a prescribed rank is constructed. This convex envelope allows the usage of traditional optimization techniques when additional constraints are added…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Fredrik Andersson , Marcus Carlsson , Carl Olsson

The article proposes a heuristic approximation approach to the bin packing problem under multiple objectives. In addition to the traditional objective of minimizing the number of bins, the heterogeneousness of the elements in each bin is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-05 Martin Josef Geiger

Knapsack is one of the most fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. In the $(1 - \epsilon)$-approximation setting, although there is a fine-grained lower bound of $(n + 1 / \epsilon) ^ {2 - o(1)}$ based on the $(\min,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiao Mao

We analyze a simple randomized subgradient method for approximating solutions to stochastic systems of convex functional constraints, the only input to the algorithm being the size of minibatches. By introducing a new notion of what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 James Renegar , Song Zhou

We propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

The paper gives a systematic study of the approximate versions of three greedy-type algorithms that are widely used in convex optimization. By approximate version we mean the one where some of evaluations are made with an error. Importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-11 Vladimir Temlyakov

Chance constraints are frequently used to limit the probability of constraint violations in real-world optimization problems where the constraints involve stochastic components. We study chance-constrained submodular optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Xiankun Yan , Anh Viet Do , Feng Shi , Xiaoyu Qin , Frank Neumann

We develop approximation algorithms for set-selection problems with deterministic constraints, but random objective values, i.e., stochastic probing problems. When the goal is to maximize the objective, approximation algorithms for probing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Weina Wang , Anupam Gupta , Jalani Williams

Let A be a matrix, c be any linear objective function and x be a fractional vector, say an LP solution to some discrete optimization problem. Then a recurring task in theoretical computer science (and in approximation algorithms in…

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We study convex optimization problems where disjoint blocks of variables are controlled by binary indicator variables that are also subject to conditions, e.g., cardinality. Several classes of important examples can be formulated in such a…

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We study a class of projective transformations of spectraplexes associated with self-dual cones and, on this basis, propose a polynomial-time algorithm for convex feasibility problems with positive definite constraints. At each iteration of…

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Approximations of optimization problems arise in computational procedures and sensitivity analysis. The resulting effect on solutions can be significant, with even small approximations of components of a problem translating into large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Johannes O. Royset

Recent successes in producing rigorous approximation algorithms for local Hamiltonian problems such as Quantum Max Cut have exploited connections to unconstrained classical discrete optimization problems. We initiate the study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Ojas Parekh , Chaithanya Rayudu , Kevin Thompson

The online knapsack problem is a classic problem in the field of online algorithms. Its canonical version asks how to pack items of different values and weights arriving online into a capacity-limited knapsack so as to maximize the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Adam Lechowicz , Rik Sengupta , Bo Sun , Shahin Kamali , Mohammad Hajiesmaili