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Packing problems constitute an important class of optimization problems, both because of their high practical relevance and theoretical appeal. However, despite the large number of variants that have been studied in the literature, most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Guido Schäfer , Bernard G. Zweers

An instance of the multiperiod binary knapsack problem (MPBKP) is given by a horizon length $T$, a non-decreasing vector of knapsack sizes $(c_1, \ldots, c_T)$ where $c_t$ denotes the cumulative size for periods $1,\ldots,t$, and a list of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zuguang Gao , John R. Birge , Varun Gupta

We consider a variant of the set covering problem with uncertain parameters, which we refer to as the chance-constrained set multicover problem (CC-SMCP). In this problem, we assume that there is uncertainty regarding whether a selected set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Shunyu Yao , Neng Fan , Pavlo Krokhmal

Chance Constrained Markov Decision Processes maximize reward subject to a bounded probability of failure, and have been frequently applied for planning with potentially dangerous outcomes or unknown environments. Solution algorithms have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Benjamin J Ayton , Brian C Williams

The knapsack problem (KP) is a very famous NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization. Also its generalization to multiple dimensions named d-dimensional knapsack problem (d-KP) and to multiple knapsacks named multiple knapsack problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Carolin Albrecht , Frank Gurski , Jochen Rethmann , Eda Yilmaz

Global localization and kidnapping are two challenging problems in robot localization. The popular method, Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) addresses the problem by iteratively updating a set of particles with a "sampling-weighting" loop.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Runjian Chen , Huan Yin , Yanmei Jiao , Gamini Dissanayake , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Chance constraints are frequently used to limit the probability of constraint violations in real-world optimization problems where the constraints involve stochastic components. We study chance-constrained submodular optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Xiankun Yan , Anh Viet Do , Feng Shi , Xiaoyu Qin , Frank Neumann

In black-box function optimization, we need to consider not only controllable design variables but also uncontrollable stochastic environment variables. In such cases, it is necessary to solve the optimization problem by taking into account…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-03 Yu Inatsu , Shion Takeno , Masayuki Karasuyama , Ichiro Takeuchi

In this paper, we study the stochastic unbounded min-knapsack problem ($\textbf{Min-SUKP}$). The ordinary unbounded min-knapsack problem states that: There are $n$ types of items, and there is an infinite number of items of each type. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Zhihao Jiang , Haoyu Zhao

We consider chance-constrained binary knapsack problems, where the weights of items are independent random variables with the means and standard deviations known. The chance constraint can be reformulated as a second-order cone constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Jaehyeon Ryu , Sungsoo Park

The "0-1 knapsack problem" stands as a classical combinatorial optimization conundrum, necessitating the selection of a subset of items from a given set. Each item possesses inherent values and weights, and the primary objective is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour

We consider the chance-constrained binary knapsack problem (CKP), where the item weights are independent and normally distributed. We introduce a continuous relaxation for the CKP, represented as a non-convex optimization problem, which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Junyoung Kim , Kyungsik Lee

We consider the reinforcement learning problem for the constrained Markov decision process (CMDP), which plays a central role in satisfying safety or resource constraints in sequential learning and decision-making. In this problem, we are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiashuo Jiang , Yinyu Ye

Knapsack problems (KPs) are common in industry, but solving KPs is known to be NP-hard and has been tractable only at a relatively small scale. This paper examines KPs in a slightly generalized form and shows that they can be solved nearly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Xingwen Zhang , Feng Qi , Zhigang Hua , Shuang Yang

A multiple knapsack constraint over a set of items is defined by a set of bins of arbitrary capacities, and a weight for each of the items. An assignment for the constraint is an allocation of subsets of items to the bins which adheres to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yaron Fairstein , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

We study an extension of the cardinality-constrained knapsack problem wherein each item has a concave piecewise linear utility structure (CCKP), which is motivated by applications such as resource management problems in monitoring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Miao Bai , Carlos Cardonha

A determinantal point process (DPP) is an elegant model that assigns a probability to every subset of a collection of $n$ items. While conventionally a DPP is parameterized by a symmetric kernel matrix, removing this symmetry constraint,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Insu Han , Mike Gartrell , Elvis Dohmatob , Amin Karbasi

We consider a variant of the knapsack problem, where items are available with different possible weights. Using a separate budget for these item improvements, the question is: Which items should be improved to which degree such that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Marc Goerigk , Yogish Sabharwal , Anita Schöbel , Sandeep Sen

Chance-constrained programming (CCP) is one of the most difficult classes of optimization problems that has attracted the attention of researchers since the 1950s. In this survey, we focus on cases when only a limited information on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Simge Küçükyavuz , Ruiwei Jiang

Knapsack problems are among the most fundamental problems in optimization. In the Multiple Knapsack problem, we are given multiple knapsacks with different capacities and items with values and sizes. The task is to find a subset of items of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon , Andreas Wiese