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The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is at the core of many real-world optimization problems. We prove that QAP can be written as the sum of three elementary landscapes when…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Francisco Chicano , Gabriel Luque , Enrique Alba

The matching problem between two adjacency matrices can be formulated as the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Previous work on semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations to the QAP have produced solutions that are often tight in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Jose F. S. Bravo Ferreira , Yuehaw Khoo , Amit Singer

Solving point-wise feature correspondence in visual data is a fundamental problem in computer vision. A powerful model that addresses this challenge is to formulate it as graph matching, which entails solving a Quadratic Assignment Problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yongqing Liang , Huijun Han , Xin Li

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

The application of the Reformulation Linearization Technique (RLT) to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) leads to a tight linear relaxation with huge dimensions that is hard to solve. Previous works found in the literature show that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Alexandre Domingues Goncalves , Lucia Maria Drummond , Artur Alves Pessoa , Peter Hahn

Planning long-horizon robot manipulation requires making discrete decisions about which objects to interact with and continuous decisions about how to interact with them. A robot planner must select grasps, placements, and motions that are…

We consider the incomplete multi-graph matching problem, which is a generalization of the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem for matching multiple finite sets. Multi-graph matching plays a central role in computer vision, e.g., for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Max Kahl , Sebastian Stricker , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Bogdan Savchynskyy

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the most difficult combinatorial optimization problems. One of the most powerful and commonly used heuristics to obtain approximations to the optimal solution of the QAP is simulated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Gerald Paul

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an NP-hard fundamental combinatorial optimization problem introduced by Koopmans and Beckmann in 1957. The problem is to assign $n$ facilities to $n$ different locations with the goal of minimizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Nathan Daly , Thomas Krauss , Julia Shapiro

Combinatorial optimization problems represent a wide range of real-world scenarios where complicated interactions make it difficult to find the best solution. One example is the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), which involves determining…

Matching problems on 3D shapes and images are challenging as they are frequently formulated as combinatorial quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) with permutation matrix constraints, which are NP-hard. In this work, we address such problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

For any optimisation problem where diverse algorithmic approaches are available, the task of predicting algorithm performance and selecting the algorithm most likely to perform well on a given instance holds great practical interest.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Jeffrey Christiansen , Kate Smith-Miles

Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequences (LABS) is a particularly challenging binary optimization problem which quickly becomes intractable in finding the global optimum for problem sizes beyond 66. This aspect makes LABS appealing to use as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiwei Zhang , Jiayu Shen , Niraj Kumar , Marco Pistoia

This study investigates the area of general quadratic integer programming (QIP), encompassing both unconstrained (UQIP) and constrained (CQIP) variants. These NP-hard problems have far-reaching applications, yet the non-convex cases have…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Haibo Wang , Bahram Alidaee

Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOPs) have attracted growing attention during the last decades. Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have been extensively used to address MOPs because are able to approximate a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Claudio Sanhueza , Francia Jimenez , Regina Berretta , Pablo Moscato

Matching one set of objects to another is a ubiquitous task in machine learning and computer vision that often reduces to some form of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP). The QAP is known to be notoriously hard, both in theory and in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Deepti Pachauri , Maxwell Collins , Vikas SIngh , Risi Kondor

The problem of solving a system of polynomial equations is one of the most fundamental problems in applied mathematics. Among them, the problem of solving a system of binomial equations form a important subclass for which specialized…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Tianran Chen , Dhagash Mehta

In this paper, we present a polynomial-sized linear programming formulation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The proposed linear program is a network flow-based model. Hence, it provides for the solution of the QAP in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moustapha Diaby

We present ReLU-QP, a GPU-accelerated solver for quadratic programs (QPs) that is capable of solving high-dimensional control problems at real-time rates. ReLU-QP is derived by exactly reformulating the Alternating Direction Method of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Arun L. Bishop , John Z. Zhang , Swaminathan Gurumurthy , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

The bilinear assignment problem (BAP) is a generalization of the well-known quadratic assignment problem (QAP). In this paper, we study the problem from the computational analysis point of view. Several classes of neigborhood structures are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Vladyslav Sokol , Ante Ćustić , Abraham P. Punnen , Binay Bhattacharya