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An important goal in algorithm design is determining the best running time for solving a problem (approximately). For some problems, we know the optimal running time, assuming certain conditional lower bounds. In this work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Moritz Buchem , Paul Deuker , Andreas Wiese

The Two-dimensional Bin Packing Problem calls for packing a set of rectangular items into a minimal set of larger rectangular bins. Items must be packed with their edges parallel to the borders of the bins, cannot be rotated and cannot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Jean-François Côté , Mohamed Haouari , Manuel Iori

Our main contribution is a concentration inequality for the symmetric volume difference of a $ C^2 $ convex body with positive Gaussian curvature and a circumscribed random polytope with a restricted number of facets, for any probability…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Steven Hoehner , Gil Kur

Approximating convex bodies is a fundamental question in geometry, which has a wide variety of applications. Given a convex body $K$ in $\textbf{R}^d$ for fixed $d$, the objective is to minimize the number of facets of an approximating…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Sunil Arya , David M. Mount

In a $d$-dimensional convex body $K$, for $n \leq d+1$, random points $X_0, \dots, X_{n-1}$ are chosen according to the uniform distribution in $K$. Their convex hull is a random $(n-1)$-simplex with probability $1$. We denote its…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Benjamin Reichenwallner

We show that any memory-constrained, first-order algorithm which minimizes $d$-dimensional, $1$-Lipschitz convex functions over the unit ball to $1/\mathrm{poly}(d)$ accuracy using at most $d^{1.25 - \delta}$ bits of memory must make at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Annie Marsden , Vatsal Sharan , Aaron Sidford , Gregory Valiant

We introduce a minor variant of the approximate D-optimal design of experiments with a more general information matrix that takes into account the representation of the design space S. The main motivation (and result) is that if S in R^d is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Didier Henrion , Jean Bernard Lasserre

We consider the computation of the volume of the union of high-dimensional geometric objects. While showing that this problem is #P-hard already for very simple bodies (i.e., axis-parallel boxes), we give a fast FPRAS for all objects where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Karl Bringmann , Tobias Friedrich

We propose a family of recursive cutting-plane algorithms to solve feasibility problems with constrained memory, which can also be used for first-order convex optimization. Precisely, in order to find a point within a ball of radius…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Moïse Blanchard , Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We present an efficient $O (n + 1/\varepsilon^{4.5})$-time algorithm for computing a $(1+\varepsilon$)-approximation of the minimum-volume bounding box of $n$ points in $\Re^3$. We also present a simpler…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Gill Barequet , Sariel Har-Peled

For a fixed $k\in\{1,\dots,d\}$ consider random vectors $X_0,\dots, X_{k}\in\mathbb R^d$ with an arbitrary spherically symmetric joint density function. Let $A$ be any non-singular $d\times d$ matrix. We show that the $k$-dimensional volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Friedrich Götze , Anna Gusakova , Dmitry Zaporozhets

In the Knapsack problem, one is given the task of packing a knapsack of a given size with items in order to gain a packing with a high profit value. An important connection to the $(\max,+)$-convolution problem has been established, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Björn Schumacher

The present work surveys problems in $n$-dimensional space with $n$ large. Early development in the study of packing and covering in high dimensions was motivated by the geometry of numbers. Subsequent results, such as the discovery of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Gábor Fejes Tóth

We give an overview of the 2024 Computational Geometry Challenge targeting the problem \textsc{Maximum Polygon Packing}: Given a convex region $P$ in the plane, and a collection of simple polygons $Q_1, \ldots, Q_n$, each $Q_i$ with a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Sándor P. Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Stefan Schirra

We prove a quantum query lower bound \Omega(n^{(d+1)/(d+2)}) for the problem of deciding whether an input string of size n contains a k-tuple which belongs to a fixed orthogonal array on k factors of strength d<=k-1 and index 1, provided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Robert Spalek

We study the d-dimensional hypercube knapsack problem where we are given a set of d-dimensional hypercubes with associated profits, and a knapsack which is a unit d-dimensional hypercube. The goal is to find an axis-aligned non-overlapping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Klaus Jansen , Arindam Khan , Marvin Lira , K. V. N. Sreenivas

In terms of the minimal $N$-point diameter $D_d(N)$ for $R^d,$ we determine, for a class of continuous real-valued functions $f$ on $[0,+\infty],$ the $N$-point $f$-best-packing constant $\min\{f(\|x-y\|)\, :\, x,y\in \R^d\}$, where the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 A. V. Bondarenko , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff

We prove that every hyperplane passing through the origin in $\rr^{n+1}$ divides an embedded compact free boundary minimal hypersurface of the euclidean $(n+1)$-ball in exactly two connected hypersurfaces. We also show that if a region in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Vanderson Lima , Ana Menezes

Approximating convex bodies succinctly by convex polytopes is a fundamental problem in discrete geometry. A convex body $K$ of diameter $\mathrm{diam}(K)$ is given in Euclidean $d$-dimensional space, where $d$ is a constant. Given an error…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

We study two optimization problems on simplicial complexes with homology over $\mathbb{Z}_2$, the minimum bounded chain problem: given a $d$-dimensional complex $\mathcal{K}$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ and a null-homologous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Glencora Borradaile , William Maxwell , Amir Nayyeri