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Message passing type algorithms such as the so-called Belief Propagation algorithm have recently gained a lot of attention in the statistics, signal processing and machine learning communities as attractive algorithms for solving a variety…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-10 David Gamarnik , Devavrat Shah , Yehua Wei

The Unbounded Subset-Sum Problem (USSP) is defined as: given sum $s$ and a set of integers $W\leftarrow \{p_1,\dots,p_n\}$ output a set of non-negative integers $\{y_1,\dots,y_n\}$ such that $p_1y_1+\dots+p_ny_n=s$. The USSP is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Majid Salimi , Hamid Mala

We study the minimum-concave-cost flow problem on a two-dimensional grid. We characterize the computational complexity of this problem based on the number of rows and columns of the grid, the number of different capacities over all arcs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Shabbir Ahmed , Qie He , Shi Li , George Nemhauser

We consider a routing problem which plays an important role in several applications, primarily in communication network planning and VLSI layout design. The original underlying graph algorithmic task is called Disjoint Paths problem. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Rupei Xu , András Faragó

Given a graph and a pair of terminals $s$, $t$, the next-to-shortest path problem asks for an $s\!\to \!t$ (simple) path that is shortest among all not shortest $s\!\to \!t$ paths (if one exists). This problem was introduced in 1996, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kuowen Chen , Nicole Wein , Yiran Zhang

We devise a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the classical geometric problem of finding an approximate short path amid weighted regions. In this problem, a triangulated region P comprising of n vertices, a positive weight associated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-08 R Inkulu , Sanjiv Kapoor

The classical optimal power flow problem optimizes the power flow in a power network considering the associated flow and operating constraints. In this paper, we investigate optimal power flow in the context of utility-maximizing demand…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Majid Khonji , Chi-Kin Chau , Khaled Elbassioni

Complex real-world optimization problems often involve both discrete decisions and nonlinear relationships between variables. Many such problems can be modeled as polynomial-objective integer programs, encompassing cases with quadratic and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Minshuo Li , Yaoxin Wu , Pavel Troubil , Yingqian Zhang , Wim P. M. Nuijten

This paper studies distributed algorithms for the extended monotropic optimization problem, which is a general convex optimization problem with a certain separable structure. The considered objective function is the sum of local convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Lihua Xie

Transmission system operators face a variety of discrete operational decisions, such as switching of branches and/or devices. Incorporating these decisions into optimal power flow (OPF) results in mixed-integer non-linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Constance Crozier

In this paper, we consider a formulation of nonlinear constrained optimization problems. We reformulate it as a time-varying optimization using continuous-time parametric functions and derive a dynamical system for tracking the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Mohsen Amidzadeh

AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems need to be solved more frequently in the future to maintain stable and economic power system operation. To tackle this challenge, a deep neural network-based voltage-constrained approach (DeepOPF-V)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Wanjun Huang , Xiang Pan , Minghua Chen , Steven H. Low

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is funda- mental in power distribution networks control and operation that underlies many important applications such as volt/var control and demand response, etc.. Large-scale highly volatile renewable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Qiuyu Peng , Steven Low

For every constant $d$, we design a subexponential time deterministic algorithm that takes as input a multivariate polynomial $f$ given as a constant depth algebraic circuit over the field of rational numbers, and outputs all irreducible…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Mrinal Kumar , Varun Ramanathan , Ramprasad Saptharishi

In a standard $f$-connectivity network design problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, a cut-requirement function $f:2^V \rightarrow {\mathbb{N}}$, and non-negative costs $c(e)$ for all $e \in E$. We are then asked to find a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jochen Könemann , Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Laura Sanità

We discuss the complexity of path enumeration and counting in weighted temporal graphs. In a weighted temporal graph, each edge has an availability time, a traversal time and some real cost. We introduce two bicriteria temporal min-cost…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Petra Mutzel , Lutz Oettershagen

Coflow is a network abstraction used to represent communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem in large data centers is one of the most important $NP$-hard problems. Many previous studies on coflow scheduling mainly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Chi-Yeh Chen

In this paper, an exact algorithm in polynomial time is developed to solve unrestricted binary quadratic programs. The computational complexity is $O\left( n^{\frac{15}{2}}\right) $, although very conservative, it is sufficient to prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Juan Ignacio Mulero-Martínez

The All-Pairs Max-Flow problem has gained significant popularity in the last two decades, and many results are known regarding its fine-grained complexity. Despite this, wide gaps remain in our understanding of the time complexity for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ohad Trabelsi

A strongly polynomial algorithm is developed for finding an integer-valued feasible $st$-flow of given flow-amount which is decreasingly minimal on a specified subset $F$ of edges in the sense that the largest flow-value on $F$ is as small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-26 András Frank , Kazuo Murota