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Motion planning and control problems are embedded and essential in almost all robotics applications. These problems are often formulated as stochastic optimal control problems and solved using dynamic programming algorithms. Unfortunately,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Alex A. Gorodetsky , Sertac Karaman , Youssef M. Marzouk

In the dynamic linear program (LP) problem, we are given an LP undergoing updates and we need to maintain an approximately optimal solution. Recently, significant attention (e.g., [Gupta et al. STOC'17; Arar et al. ICALP'18, Wajc STOC'20])…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In the setting of DynFO, dynamic programs update the stored result of a query whenever the underlying data changes. This update is expressed in terms of first-order logic. We introduce a strategy for constructing dynamic programs that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Samir Datta , Anish Mukherjee , Thomas Schwentick , Nils Vortmeier , Thomas Zeume

Dynamic programming is a powerful technique that is, unfortunately, often inherently sequential. That is, there exists no unified method to parallelize algorithms that use dynamic programming. In this paper, we attempt to address this issue…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-18 MohammadHossein Bateni , Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Vahab Mirrokni

The task of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint is at the core of many machine learning and data mining applications, including data summarization, sparse regression and coverage problems. We study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakub Tarnawski , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

In this paper, we consider dynamic matroids, where elements can be inserted to or deleted from the ground set over time. The independent sets change to reflect the current ground set. As matroids are central to the study of many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tijn de Vos , Mara Grilnberger

We present a finite-horizon optimization algorithm that extends the established concept of Dual Dynamic Programming (DDP) in two ways. First, in contrast to the linear costs, dynamics, and constraints of standard DDP, we consider problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Marc Hohmann , Joseph Warrington , John Lygeros

We consider a broad class of dynamic programming (DP) problems that involve a partially linear structure and some positivity properties in their system equation and cost function. We address deterministic and stochastic problems, possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that answers queries about a property of the current graph while supporting graph modifications such as edge insertions and deletions. Prior work has shown strong conditional lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Monika Henzinger , Ami Paz , A. R. Sricharan

We study robust and efficient distributed algorithms for building and maintaining distributed data structures in dynamic Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. P2P networks are characterized by a high level of dynamicity with abrupt heavy node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 John Augustine , Antonio Cruciani , Iqra Altaf Gillani

Constrained submodular maximization problems have long been studied, with near-optimal results known under a variety of constraints when the submodular function is monotone. The case of non-monotone submodular maximization is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-07 Anupam Gupta , Aaron Roth , Grant Schoenebeck , Kunal Talwar

We study dynamic graph algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation model, which was inspired by practical data processing systems. Our goal is to provide algorithms that can efficiently handle large batches of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krzysztof Nowicki , Krzysztof Onak

Dynamic Programming (DP) and Constraint Programming (CP) are well-established paradigms for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Usually, these two approaches are used separately. This paper aims to show that the two can be combined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Emma Legrand , Roger Kameugne , Pierre Schaus

We introduce optimal algorithms for the problems of data placement (DP) and page placement (PP) in networks with a constant number of clients each of which has limited storage availability and issues requests for data objects. The objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Gerasimos G. Pollatos , Vassilis Zissimopoulos

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under multiple knapsack constraints. We propose a simple discrete greedy algorithm to approach this problem, and prove that it yields strong approximation guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Vanja Doskoč , Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Francesco Quinzan

Despite significant research efforts, the state-of-the-art algorithm for maintaining an approximate matching in fully dynamic graphs has a polynomial {worst-case} update time, even for very poor approximation guarantees. In a recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Moses Charikar , Shay Solomon

We study dynamic algorithms in the model of algorithms with predictions. We assume the algorithm is given imperfect predictions regarding future updates, and we ask how such predictions can be used to improve the running time. This can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Adam Polak

Submodular maximization is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning; there, the growing need to deal with massive instances motivates the design of algorithms balancing the quality of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

Network flow formulations are among the most successful tools to solve optimization problems. Such formulations correspond to determining an optimal flow in a network. One particular class of network flow formulations is the arc flow, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Vinícius L. de Lima , Cláudio Alves , François Clautiaux , Manuel Iori , José M. Valério de Carvalho

Dynamic resource management is essential for optimizing computational efficiency in modern high-performance computing (HPC) environments, particularly as systems scale. While research has demonstrated the benefits of malleability in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Sergio Iserte , Iker Martín-Álvarez , Krzysztof Rojek , José I. Aliaga , Maribel Castillo , Weronika Folwarska , Antonio J. Peña