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In this paper we study the {\it bilinear assignment problem} (BAP) with size parameters $m$ and $n$, $m\leq n$. BAP is a generalization of the well known quadratic assignment problem and the three dimensional assignment problem and hence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Ante Ćustić , Vladyslav Sokol , Abraham P. Punnen , Binay Bhattacharya

We investigate a family of bilevel imaging learning problems where the lower-level instance corresponds to a convex variational model involving first- and second-order nonsmooth sparsity-based regularizers. By using geometric properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Juan Carlos De los Reyes

Mixed-integer optimisation problems can be computationally challenging. Here, we introduce and analyse two efficient algorithms with a specific sequential design that are aimed at dealing with sampled problems within this class. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

We propose a model for recoverable robust optimization with commitment. Given a combinatorial optimization problem and uncertainty about elements that may fail, we ask for a robust solution that, after the failing elements are revealed, can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Felix Hommelsheim , Nicole Megow , Komal Muluk , Britta Peis

Pareto-optimality plays a central role in evaluating the efficiency of solutions to allocation problems, such as house allocation, school choice, and kidney exchange. We introduce a general linear programming problem subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Bart van Rossum , Twan Dollevoet

Consider a multi-class labelling problem, where the labels can take values in $[k]$, and a predictor predicts a distribution over the labels. In this work, we study the following foundational question: Are there notions of multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Parikshit Gopalan , Lunjia Hu , Guy N. Rothblum

Bi-objective optimization problems on matroids are in general intractable and their corresponding decision problems are in general NP-hard. However, if one of the objective functions is restricted to binary cost coefficients the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Julia Sudhoff

Bilevel optimization has emerged as a technique for addressing a wide range of machine learning problems that involve an outer objective implicitly determined by the minimizer of an inner problem. While prior works have primarily focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Fares El Khoury , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter , Michael Arbel

Bilevel optimization problems embed the optimality of a subproblem as a constraint of another optimization problem. We introduce the concept of near-optimality robustness for bilevel optimization, protecting the upper-level solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Mathieu Besançon , Miguel F. Anjos , Luce Brotcorne

Learning linear combinations of multiple kernels is an appealing strategy when the right choice of features is unknown. Previous approaches to multiple kernel learning (MKL) promote sparse kernel combinations to support interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Marius Kloft , Ulf Brefeld , Soeren Sonnenburg , Alexander Zien

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) require very large amounts of computation both for training and for inference when deployed in the field. Many different algorithms have been proposed to implement the most computationally expensive layers of…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Andrew Anderson , David Gregg

In bilevel and robust optimization we are concerned with combinatorial min-max problems, for example from the areas of min-max regret robust optimization, network interdiction, most vital vertex problems, blocker problems, and two-stage…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Christoph Grüne , Lasse Wulf

We show that the Kth largest subset problem and the Kth largest m-tuple problem are in PP and hard for PP under polynomial-time Turing reductions. Several problems from the literature were previously shown NP-hard via reductions from those…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Christoph Haase , Stefan Kiefer

We analyze combinatorial optimization problems with ordinal, i.e., non-additive, objective functions that assign categories (like good, medium and bad) rather than cost coefficients to the elements of feasible solutions. We review different…

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Despite advances in multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), we argue that there are still two major challenges in this area: data imbalance and representation degeneration. The data imbalance problem refers to the imbalance in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Wen Lai , Alexandra Chronopoulou , Alexander Fraser

Support vector classification (SVC) with logistic loss has excellent theoretical properties in classification problems where the label values are not continuous. In this paper, we reformulate the hyperparameter selection for SVC with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Yixin Wang , Qingna Li

Automated mathematical reasoning is a challenging problem that requires an agent to learn algebraic patterns that contain long-range dependencies. Two particular tasks that test this type of reasoning are (1) mathematical equation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

The purpose of this article is to examine and limit the conditions in which the P complexity class could be equivalent to the NP complexity class. Proof is provided by demonstrating that as the number of clauses in a NP-complete problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-07 Jerrald Meek

Various control schemes rely on a solution of a convex optimization problem involving a particular robust quadratic constraint, which can be reformulated as a linear matrix inequality using the well-known $\mathcal{S}$-lemma. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Goran Banjac , Jianzhe Zhen , Dick den Hertog , John Lygeros

This article discusses ability of Linear Programming models to be used as solvers of NP-complete problems. Integer Linear Programming is known as NP-complete problem, but non-integer Linear Programming problems can be solved in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Radoslaw Hofman