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We present a new sink particle algorithm developed for the Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES. Our main addition is the use of a clump finder to identify density peaks and their associated regions (the peak patches). This allows us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andreas Bleuler , Romain Teyssier

In this paper we deal with the feasibility-seeking problem for unions of convex sets (UCS) sets and propose an iterative process for its solution. Renewed interest in this problem stems from the fact that it was recently discovered to serve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Yair Censor , Alexander J. Zaslavski

This paper studies the complexity of problems in PPAD $\cap$ PLS that have unique solutions. Three well-known examples of such problems are the problem of finding a fixpoint of a contraction map, finding the unique sink of a Unique Sink…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-12 John Fearnley , Spencer Gordon , Ruta Mehta , Rahul Savani

Linear superiorization (abbreviated: LinSup) considers linear programming (LP) problems wherein the constraints as well as the objective function are linear. It allows to steer the iterates of a feasibility-seeking iterative process toward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Yair Censor , Yehuda Zur

Reachability analysis is a fundamental problem for safety verification and falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) whose dynamics follow physical laws usually represented as differential equations. In the last two decades, numerous…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Hoang-Dung Tran , Weiming Xiang , Nathaniel Hamilton , Taylor T. Johnson

Reachability analysis is a formal method to guarantee safety of dynamical systems under the influence of uncertainties. A substantial bottleneck of all reachability algorithms is the necessity to adequately tune specific algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Mark Wetzlinger , Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak , Matthias Althoff

The coalgebraic $\mu$-calculus provides a generic semantic framework for fixpoint logics with branching types beyond the standard relational setup, e.g. probabilistic, weighted, or game-based. Previous work on the coalgebraic $\mu$-calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Daniel Hausmann , Lutz Schröder

We investigate the complexity of uniform OR circuits and AND circuits of polynomial-size and depth. As their name suggests, OR circuits have OR gates as their computation gates, as well as the usual input, output and constant (0/1) gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Niall Murphy , Damien Woods

We study the memory complexity of machine unlearning algorithms that provide strong data deletion guarantees to the users. Formally, consider an algorithm for a particular learning task that initially receives a training dataset. Then,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Sumegha Garg , Nived Rajaraman , Ayush Sekhari , Abhishek Shetty

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

Given a set of $n$ points in the plane, the Unit Disk Cover (UDC) problem asks to compute the minimum number of unit disks required to cover the points, along with a placement of the disks. The problem is NP-hard and several approximation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Rachel Friederich , Matthew Graham , Anirban Ghosh , Brian Hicks , Ronald Shevchenko

The inconsistency issue in the Visual-Inertial Navigation System (VINS) is a long-standing and fundamental challenge. While existing studies primarily attribute the inconsistency to observability mismatch, these analyses are often based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chungeng Tian , Fenghua He , Ning Hao

Given the complexity of modern software systems, it is of great importance that such systems be able to autonomously modify themselves, i.e., self-adapt, with minimal human supervision. It is critical that this adaptation both results in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Todd Wareham , Ronald de Haan

Sapo is a C++ tool for the formal analysis of polynomial dynamical systems. Its main features are: 1) Reachability computation, i.e., the calculation of the set of states reachable from a set of initial conditions, and 2) Parameter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Tommaso Dreossi

This manuscript explores novel complexity results for the feasibility problem over $p$-order cones, extending the foundational work of Porkolab and Khachiyan. By leveraging the intrinsic structure of $p$-order cones, we derive refined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Víctor Blanco , Victor Magron , Miguel Martínez-Antón

The feasibility-seeking approach provides a systematic scheme to manage and solve complex constraints for continuous problems, and we explore it for the floorplanning problems with increasingly heterogeneous constraints. The classic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Shan Yu , Yair Censor , Ming Jiang , Guojie Luo

We consider the problem of establishing that a program-synthesis problem is unrealizable (i.e., has no solution in a given search space of programs). Prior work on unrealizability has developed some automatic techniques to establish that a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jinwoo Kim , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

Backward reachability analysis is essential to synthesizing controllers that ensure the correctness of closed-loop systems. This paper is concerned with developing scalable algorithms that under-approximate the backward reachable sets, for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Liren Yang , Hang Zhang , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Necmiye Ozay

Multiobjective simulation optimization (MOSO) problems are optimization problems with multiple conflicting objectives, where evaluation of at least one of the objectives depends on a black-box numerical code or real-world experiment, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Tyler H. Chang , Stefan M. Wild

We study the computational complexity of satisfiability problems for classes of simple finite height (ortho)complemented modular lattices $L$. For single finite $L$, these problems are shown tobe $\mc{NP}$-complete; for $L$ of height at…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Christian Herrmann