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In this paper, we study an infeasible interior-point method for linear optimization with full-Newton step. The introduced method uses an algebraic equivalent transformation on the centering equation of the system which defines the central…

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The input to the NP-hard Point Line Cover problem (PLC) consists of a set $P$ of $n$ points on the plane and a positive integer $k$, and the question is whether there exists a set of at most $k$ lines which pass through all points in $P$. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Stefan Kratsch , Geevarghese Philip , Saurabh Ray

We present a faster interior-point method for optimizing sum-of-squares (SOS) polynomials, which are a central tool in polynomial optimization and capture convex programming in the Lasserre hierarchy. Let $p = \sum_i q^2_i$ be an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Shunhua Jiang , Bento Natura , Omri Weinstein

We propose an iterative algorithm for low-rank matrix completion that can be interpreted as an iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm, a saddle-escaping smoothing Newton method or a variable metric proximal gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Christian Kümmerle , Claudio Mayrink Verdun

Internal Pattern Matching (IPM) queries on a text $T$, given two fragments $X$ and $Y$ of $T$ such that $|Y|<2|X|$, ask to compute all exact occurrences of $X$ within $Y$. IPM queries have been introduced by Kociumaka, Radoszewski, Rytter,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Anouk Duyster , Tomasz Kociumaka

We introduce the implicitly constrained least squares (ICLS) classifier, a novel semi-supervised version of the least squares classifier. This classifier minimizes the squared loss on the labeled data among the set of parameters implied by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-31 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

Interior-point methods for linear programming problems require the repeated solution of a linear system of equations. Solving these linear systems is non-trivial due to the severe ill-conditioning of the matrices towards convergence. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jeffrey Cornelis , Wim Vanroose

In this paper, we study optimal experimental design problems with a broad class of smooth convex optimality criteria, including the classical A-, D- and p th mean criterion. In particular, we propose an interior point (IP) method for them…

Computation · Statistics 2012-10-16 Zhaosong Lu , Ting Kei Pong

Integer linear programming (ILP) remains computationally challenging due to its NP-complete nature despite its central role in scheduling, logistics, and design optimization. We introduce a fully quantum Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Gabriel Escrig , Roberto Campos , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Multiple Constant Multiplication (MCM) over integers is a frequent operation arising in embedded systems that require highly optimized hardware. An efficient way is to replace costly generic multiplication by bit-shifts and additions, i.e.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Rémi Garcia , Anastasia Volkova

In optimization routines used for on-line Model Predictive Control (MPC), linear systems of equations are usually solved in each iteration. This is true both for Active Set (AS) methods as well as for Interior Point (IP) methods, and for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-08 Daniel Axehill

Primal-dual interior-point methods solve constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances with speed and robustness. Their solutions are also efficiently differentiable with respect to the problem data through the implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jon Arrizabalaga , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

We consider fundamental algorithmic number theoretic problems and their relation to a class of block structured Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) called $2$-stage stochastic. A $2$-stage stochastic ILP is an integer program of the form $\min…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein , Alexandra Lassota

Iteratively reweighted least square (IRLS) is a popular approach to solve sparsity-enforcing regression problems in machine learning. State of the art approaches are more efficient but typically rely on specific coordinate pruning schemes.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) serves as a versatile framework for modeling a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems, typically addressed by sophisticated exact solvers or heuristics. While learning-based approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kyuil Sim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jinkyoo Park

An arc-search interior-point method is a type of interior-point methods that approximates the central path by an ellipsoidal arc, and it can often reduce the number of iterations. In this work, to further reduce the number of iterations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Einosuke Iida , Makoto Yamashita

Interior-point methods offer a highly versatile framework for convex optimization that is effective in theory and practice. A key notion in their theory is that of a self-concordant barrier. We give a suitable generalization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Hiroshi Hirai , Harold Nieuwboer , Michael Walter

The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) has recently emerged as an important tool for solving large-scale linear programs (LPs). For LPs with unique optima, we present an iteration bound of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Zikai Xiong

The indefinite least squares (ILS) problem is a generalization of the famous linear least squares problem. It minimizes an indefinite quadratic form with respect to a signature matrix. For this problem, we first propose an impressively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

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