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It was recently proved that any Straight-Line Program (SLP) generating a given string can be transformed in linear time into an equivalent balanced SLP of the same asymptotic size. We generalize this proof to a general class of grammars we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Gonzalo Navarro , Francisco Olivares , Cristian Urbina

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) has a broad range of applications in various areas of artificial intelligence. Yet in spite of recent advances, we still lack a thorough understanding of which structural restrictions make ILP tractable.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pavel Dvořák , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Dušan Knop , Sebastian Ordyniak

Large language models (LLMs) can generate code from natural language descriptions. Their performance is typically evaluated using programming benchmarks that simulate real-world tasks. These benchmarks provide specifications in the form of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuning Zhang , Yongjoo Park

Bilevel optimization has been widely used in decision-making process. However, there still lacks an efficient algorithm to determine an optimal solution of a bilevel optimization problem, especially for a large-size problem. To bridge the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Xuan Liu , Zuyi Li

System Level Synthesis (SLS) parametrization facilitates controller synthesis for large, complex, and distributed systems by incorporating system level constraints (SLCs) into a convex SLS problem and mapping its solution to stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shih-Hao Tseng , Carmen {Amo Alonso} , SooJean Han

Storyline drawings are a popular visualization of interactions of a set of characters over time, e.g., to show participants of scenes in a book or movie. Characters are represented as $x$-monotone curves that converge vertically for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Alexander Dobler , Michael Jünger , Paul J. Jünger , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Martin Nöllenburg

In the Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) community, the combination of techniques operating on graph-based models (e.g., Pattern Matching (PM) and Graph Transformation (GT)) and Integer Linear Programming (ILP) is a common…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Sebastian Ehmes , Maximilian Kratz , Andy Schürr

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming paradigm based on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. It is a tremendously powerful tool for describing and solving combinatorial problems. Like any other language, ASP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Connar Hite , Sean Saud , Raef Taha , Nayim Rahman , Tanvir Atahary , Scott Douglass , Tarek Taha

Stochastic algorithms are efficient approaches to solving machine learning and optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a general framework called Splash for parallelizing stochastic algorithms on multi-node distributed systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Yuchen Zhang , Michael I. Jordan

This paper presents algorithms for solving multiobjective integer programming problems. The algorithm uses Barvinok's rational functions of the polytope that defines the feasible region and provides as output the entire set of nondominated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-04 Victor Blanco , Justo Puerto

In advancing parallel programming, particularly with OpenMP, the shift towards NLP-based methods marks a significant innovation beyond traditional S2S tools like Autopar and Cetus. These NLP approaches train on extensive datasets of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weidong Wang , Haoran Zhu

We present a class of linear programming approximations for constrained optimization problems. In the case of mixed-integer polynomial optimization problems, if the intersection graph of the constraints has bounded tree-width our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Daniel Bienstock , Gonzalo Munoz

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

This paper explores the limits of the current generation of large language models for program synthesis in general purpose programming languages. We evaluate a collection of such models (with between 244M and 137B parameters) on two new…

We show how to efficiently compute the derivative (when it exists) of the solution map of log-log convex programs (LLCPs). These are nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems with positive variables that become convex when the variables,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Akshay Agrawal , Stephen Boyd

LP-type problems such as the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB), Linear Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Programming (LP), and Semidefinite Programming (SDP) are fundamental combinatorial optimization problems, with many important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 N. Efe Çekirge , William Gay , David P. Woodruff

Programming-by-Examples (PBE) aims to generate an algorithm from input-output examples. Such systems are practically and theoretically important: from an end-user perspective, they are deployed to millions of people, and from an AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

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

One of the greatest efforts of computational scientists is to translate the mathematical model describing a class of physical phenomena into large and complex codes. Many of these codes face the difficulty of implementing the mathematical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Edoardo Di Napoli , Elmar Peise , Markus Hrywniak , Paolo Bientinesi

We introduce a generic framework for solving linear programs (LPs) with many constraints $(n \gg d)$ via adaptive sparsification. Our approach provides a principled generalization of the techniques of [Assadi '23] from matching problems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Étienne Objois , Adrian Vladu