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This study investigates the problem of learning linear block codes optimized for Belief-Propagation decoders significantly improving performance compared to the state-of-the-art. Our previous research is extended with an enhanced system…

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We show that under mild assumptions for a problem whose solutions admit a dynamic programming-like recurrence relation, we can still find a solution under additional packing constraints, which need to be satisfied approximately. The number…

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Many fundamental NP-hard problems can be formulated as integer linear programs (ILPs). A famous algorithm by Lenstra solves ILPs in time that is exponential only in the dimension of the program, and polynomial in the size of the ILP. That…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Matthias Mnich

Constrained coding plays a key role in optimizing performance and mitigating errors in applications such as storage and communication, where specific constraints on codewords are required. While non-parametric constraints have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Daniella Bar-Lev , Michael Shlizerman

In this paper, we analyze the convergence %semi-convergence properties of projected non-stationary block iterative methods (P-BIM) aiming to find a constrained solution to large linear, usually both noisy and ill-conditioned, systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Mahdi Mirzapour , Andrzej Cegielski , Tommy Elfving

The theory of $n$-fold integer programming has been recently emerging as an important tool in parameterized complexity. The input to an $n$-fold integer program (IP) consists of parameter $A$, dimension $n$, and numerical data of binary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Martin Koutecký , Asaf Levin , Shmuel Onn

Given a finite metric space $(X\cup Y, \mathbf{d})$ the $k$-median problem is to find a set of $k$ centers $C\subseteq Y$ that minimizes $\sum_{p\in X} \min_{c\in C} \mathbf{d}(p,c)$. In general metrics, the best polynomial time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Anne Driemel , Jan Höckendorff , Ioannis Psarros , Christian Sohler , Di Yue

We consider the following problem: Given a rational matrix $A \in \setQ^{m \times n}$ and a rational polyhedron $Q \subseteq\setR^{m+p}$, decide if for all vectors $b \in \setR^m$, for which there exists an integral $z \in \setZ^p$ such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-29 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Gennady Shmonin

In this paper, we present the first outer approximation algorithm for multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming problems with any number of objectives. The algorithm also works for certain classes of non-linear programming problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Fritz Bökler , Sophie N. Parragh , Markus Sinnl , Fabien Tricoire

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

Integer Linear Programming with $n$ binary variables and $m$ many $0/1$-constraints can be solved in time $2^{\tilde O(m^2)} \text{poly}(n)$ and it is open whether the dependence on $m$ is optimal. Several seemingly unrelated problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

Powerful results from the theory of integer programming have recently led to substantial advances in parameterized complexity. However, our perception is that, except for Lenstra's algorithm for solving integer linear programming in fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký

Integer programming (IP) is an important and challenging problem. Approximate methods have shown promising performance on both effectiveness and efficiency for solving the IP problem. However, we observed that a large fraction of variables…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Longkang Li , Baoyuan Wu

Packing and covering linear programs (PC-LPs) form an important class of linear programs (LPs) across computer science, operations research, and optimization. In 1993, Luby and Nisan constructed an iterative algorithm for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

Constrained optimization problems appear in a wide variety of challenging real-world problems, where constraints often capture the physics of the underlying system. Classic methods for solving these problems rely on iterative algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Meiyi Li , Soheil Kolouri , Javad Mohammadi

Solving linear programs is often a challenging task in distributed settings. While there are good algorithms for solving packing and covering linear programs in a distributed manner (Kuhn et al.~2006), this is essentially the only class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Michael Dinitz , Yasamin Nazari

We study integer linear programs (ILP) of the form $\min\{c^\top x\ \vert\ Ax=b,l\le x\le u,x\in\mathbb Z^n\}$ and analyze their parameterized complexity with respect to their distance to the generalized matching problem, following the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Alexandra Lassota , Koen Ligthart

Counting integer solutions of linear constraints has found interesting applications in various fields. It is equivalent to the problem of counting lattice points inside a polytope. However, state-of-the-art algorithms for this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Cunjing Ge

We study optimal decision policies for integer linear programs with a fixed feasible set and varying cost vectors, represented as linear decision trees. Once synthesized for a given feasible set, they return an optimal solution for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Théo Guyard , Cleber Oliveira , Maximilian Schiffer , Eduardo Uchoa , Thibaut Vidal

The joint optimization of the integer matrix $\mathbf{A}$ and the power scaling matrix $\mathbf{D}$ is central to achieving the capacity-approaching performance of Integer-Forcing (IF) precoding. This problem, however, is known to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Junren Qin , Fan Jiang , Tao Yang , Shanxiang Lyu , Rongke Liu , Shi Jin