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This paper investigates connections between discrete and continuous approaches for decomposable submodular function minimization. We provide improved running time estimates for the state-of-the-art continuous algorithms for the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen , László A. Végh

We present a new algorithm for computing balanced flows in equality networks arising in market equilibrium computations. The current best time bound for computing balanced flows in such networks requires $O(n)$ maxflow computations, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Omar Darwish , Kurt Mehlhorn

We consider minimization problems with bisubmodular objective functions. We propose valid inequalities, namely the poly-bimatroid inequalities, and provide a complete linear description of the convex hull of the epigraph of a bisubmodular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Qimeng Yu , Simge Kucukyavuz

We develop efficient algorithms for a fundamental network design problem arising in potential-based flow models, which are central to many energy transport networks (e.g., hydrogen and electricity). In contrast to classical network flow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Max Klimm , Marc E. Pfetsch , Martin Skutella , Lea Strubberg

We study the problem of finding a maximum matching in a graph given by an input stream listing its edges in some arbitrary order, where the quantity to be maximized is given by a monotone submodular function on subsets of edges. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Amit Chakrabarti , Sagar Kale

In this paper, we generalize the minimum flow decomposition problem (MFD) to incorporate uncertain edge capacities and tackle it from the perspective of robust optimization. In the classical flow decomposition problem, a network flow is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Moritz Stinzendörfer , Philine Schiewe , Fabricio Oliveira

The present work studies a kind of Maximum Concurrent Flow Problem, called as Extended Maximum Concurrent Flow Problem with Saturated Capacity. Our major contributions are as follows: (A) Propose the definition of Extensive Maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Congdian Cheng

We present a practical and powerful new framework for both unconstrained and constrained submodular function optimization based on discrete semidifferentials (sub- and super-differentials). The resulting algorithms, which repeatedly compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Rishabh Iyer , Stefanie Jegelka , Jeff Bilmes

We consider the online buffer minimization in multiprocessor systems with conflicts problem (in short, the buffer minimization problem) in the recently introduced flow model. In an online fashion, workloads arrive on some of the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niklas Haas , Sören Schmitt , Rob van Stee

In this paper, we discuss the maximum flow problem in the two-party communication model, where two parties, each holding a subset of edges on a common vertex set, aim to compute the maximum flow of the union graph with minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang

We present a combinatorial method for the min-cost flow problem and prove that its expected running time is bounded by $\tilde O(m^{3/2})$. This matches the best known bounds, which previously have only been achieved by numerical algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Ruben Becker , Andreas Karrenbauer

We present an exploration of the rich theoretical connections between several classes of regularized models, network flows, and recent results in submodular function theory. This work unifies key aspects of these problems under a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-09 Hoyt Koepke , Marina Meila

A wide variety of problems in machine learning, including exemplar clustering, document summarization, and sensor placement, can be cast as constrained submodular maximization problems. Unfortunately, the resulting submodular optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Rafael da Ponte Barbosa , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen , Justin Ward

This paper studies a variant of the minimum-cost flow problem in a graph with convex cost function where the demands at the vertices are functions depending on a one-dimensional parameter $\lambda$. We devise two algorithmic approaches for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Per Joachims , Max Klimm , Philipp Warode

When the underlying physical network layer in optimal network flow problems is a large graph, the associated optimization problem has a large set of decision variables. In this paper, we discuss how the cycle basis from graph theory can be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Reza Asadi , Solmaz S. Kia

In this paper we apply a reduced basis framework for the computation of flow bifurcation (and stability) problems in fluid dynamics. The proposed method aims at reducing the complexity and the computational time required for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Giuseppe Pitton , Gianluigi Rozza

In this paper, we present a general framework for efficiently computing diverse solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. Given a problem instance, the goal is to find $k$ solutions that maximize a specified diversity measure; the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yuni Iwamasa , Tomoki Matsuda , Shunya Morihira , Hanna Sumita

The Maximum Flow Problem with Conflict Constraints is a generalization that adds conflict constraints to a classical optimization problem on networks used to model several real-world applications. In the last few years several approaches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under cardinality constraints is a classic optimization task with several applications in data mining and machine learning. In this paper we study this problem in a dynamic environment with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Symmetric submodular functions are an important family of submodular functions capturing many interesting cases including cut functions of graphs and hypergraphs. Maximization of such functions subject to various constraints receives little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Moran Feldman