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Fix a finite group $G$. We study the computational complexity of counting problems of the following flavor: given a group $\Gamma$, count the number of homomorphisms $\Gamma \to G$. Our first result establishes that this problem is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Eric Samperton , Armin Weiß

We consider the problem of matrix completion on an $n \times m$ matrix. We introduce the problem of Interpretable Matrix Completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Dimitris Bertsimas , Michael Lingzhi Li

We here study Max Hamming XSAT, ie, the problem of finding two XSAT models at maximum Hamming distance. By using a recent XSAT solver as an auxiliary function, an O(1.911^n) time algorithm can be constructed, where n is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vilhelm Dahllof

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jonathan Gadea Harder , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

We study the power of the bounded-width consistency algorithm in the context of the fixed-template Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP). Our main technical finding is that the template of every PCSP that is solvable in bounded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Albert Atserias , Víctor Dalmau

As a continuation to our previous work [9, 10], we consider the domino tiling problem with impurities. (1) if we have more than two impurities on the boundary, we can compute the number of corresponding perfect matchings by using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Fumihiko Nakano , Taizo Sadahiro

Due to challenging applications such as collaborative filtering, the matrix completion problem has been widely studied in the past few years. Different approaches rely on different structure assumptions on the matrix in hand. Here, we focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-14 Vincent Cottet , Pierre Alquier

We study the strip packing problem, a classical packing problem which generalizes both bin packing and makespan minimization. Here we are given a set of axis-parallel rectangles in the two-dimensional plane and the goal is to pack them in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Waldo Gálvez , Fabrizio Grandoni , Salvatore Ingala , Arindam Khan

The de Rham complex arises naturally when studying problems in electromagnetism and fluid mechanics. Stable numerical methods to solve these problems can be obtained by using a discrete de Rham complex that preserves the structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Diogo C. Cabanas , Kendrick M. Shepherd , Deepesh Toshniwal , Rafael Vázquez

We study the computational complexity of several polynomial-time-solvable graph problems parameterized by vertex integrity, a measure of a graph's vulnerability to vertex removal in terms of connectivity. Vertex integrity is the smallest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Matthias Bentert , Klaus Heeger , Tomohiro Koana

Motivated by the problem of enumerating all tree decompositions of a graph, we consider in this article the problem of listing all the minimal chordal completions of a graph. In \cite{carmeli2020} (\textsc{Pods 2017}) Carmeli \emph{et al.}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Caroline Brosse , Vincent Limouzy , Arnaud Mary

The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Victor Magron , Jie Wang

This paper depicts an algorithm for solving the Decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem using the binary numerical properties of a Special Decision Satisfiability Problem, parallel execution, object oriented, and short termination. The two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero

The complexity of graph homomorphisms has been a subject of intense study [11, 12, 4, 42, 21, 17, 6, 20]. The partition function $Z_{\mathbf A}(\cdot)$ of graph homomorphism is defined by a symmetric matrix $\mathbf A$ over $\mathbb C$. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Jin-Yi Cai , Artem Govorov

In this paper, we study the problems of detection and recovery of hidden submatrices with elevated means inside a large Gaussian random matrix. We consider two different structures for the planted submatrices. In the first model, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Marom Dadon , Wasim Huleihel , Tamir Bendory

We give a combinatorial polynomial-time algorithm to find a maximum weight independent set in perfect graphs of bounded degree that do not contain a prism or a hole of length four as an induced subgraph. An even pair in a graph is a pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek , Kristina Vušković

In this paper, we present new efficiently solvable cases of the Minimum Uncovering Branching problem, an optimization problem with applications in cancer genomics introduced by Hujdurovi\'c, Husi\'c, Milani\v{c}, Rizzi, and Tomescu in 2018.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Narmina Baghirova , Esther Galby , Martin Milanič

We explore the clearing problem in the barter exchange market. The problem, described in the terminology of graph theory, is to find a set of vertex-disjoint, length-restricted cycles that maximize the total weight in a weighted digraph.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Suiqian Luo , Pingzhong Tang , Chenggang Wu , Jianyang Zeng

Hashing method maps similar data to binary hashcodes with smaller hamming distance, and it has received a broad attention due to its low storage cost and fast retrieval speed. However, the existing limitations make the present algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Shifeng Zhang , Jianmin Li , Jinma Guo , Bo Zhang

Motivated by a connection with the factorization of multivariate polynomials, we study integral convex polytopes and their integral decompositions in the sense of the Minkowski sum. We first show that deciding decomposability of integral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Gao , A. G. B. Lauder