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This paper presents a new method for solving an orienteering problem (OP) by breaking it down into two parts: a knapsack problem (KP) and a traveling salesman problem (TSP). A KP solver is responsible for picking nodes, while a TSP solver…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Wei Liu , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Kang Yang

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

Graph matching involves combinatorial optimization based on edge-to-edge affinity matrix, which can be generally formulated as Lawler's Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). This paper presents a QAP network directly learning with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, therefore, solving the QAP requires applying one or more of the meta-heuristic algorithms. This paper presents a comparative study between Meta-heuristic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Gamal Abd El-Nasser A. Said , Abeer M. Mahmoud , El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known permutation-based combinatorial optimization problem with real applications in industrial and logistics environments. Motivated by the challenge that this NP-hard problem represents, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-24 Etor Arza , Aritz Perez , Ekhine Irurozki , Josu Ceberio

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

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

A quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that belongs to the class of NP-hard ones. So, it is difficult to solve in the polynomial time even for small instances. Research on the QAP has thus focused on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zohreh Raziei , Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam , Siavash Tabrizian

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

Quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization and finds numerous applications in operation research, computer vision, and pattern recognition. However, it is a very well-known NP-hard problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Shuyang Ling

We consider new polynomially solvable cases of the well-known Quadratic Assignment Problem involving coefficient matrices with a special diagonal structure. By combining the new special cases with polynomially solvable special cases known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Eranda Cela , Vladimir Deineko , Gerhard J. Woeginger

Communication and topology aware process mapping is a powerful approach to reduce communication time in parallel applications with known communication patterns on large, distributed memory systems. We address the problem as a quadratic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Christian Schulz , Jesper Larsson Träff , Konrad von Kirchbach

We present a new polynomially solvable case of the Quadratic Assignment Problem in Koopmans-Beckman form $QAP(A,B)$, by showing that the identity permutation is optimal when $A$ and $B$ are respectively a Robinson similarity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Monique Laurent , Matteo Seminaroti

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

We develop an algorithm to solve the Bottleneck Assignment Problem (BAP) that is amenable to having computation distributed over a network of agents. This consists of exploring how each component of the algorithm can be distributed, with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Mitchell Khoo , Tony A. Wood , Chris Manzie , Iman Shames

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a fundamental NP-hard task that poses significant challenges for both traditional heuristics and modern learning-based solvers. Existing QAP solvers still struggle to achieve consistently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yicheng Pan , Ruisong Zhou , Haijun Zou , Tianyou Li , Zaiwen Wen

Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) on the graph with real-life applications are canonical challenges in Computer Science. The difficulty of finding quality labels for problem instances holds back leveraging supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Mostafa Pashazadeh , Kui Wu

A quantum compiler is a critical piece in the quantum computing pipeline since it allows an abstract quantum circuit to be run on a physical quantum computer. One extremely important subproblem in quantum compilation is the generation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ankit Kulshrestha , Xiaoyuan Liu

We consider special cases of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that are linearizable in the sense of Bookhold. We provide combinatorial characterizations of the linearizable instances of the weighted feedback arc set QAP, and of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Eranda Cela , Vladimir G. Deineko , Gerhard J. Woeginger

We revisit and strengthen splitting methods for solving doubly nonnegative, DNN, relaxations of the quadratic assignment problem, QAP. We use a modified restricted contractive splitting method, PRSM, approach. Our strengthened bounds and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Naomi Graham , Hao Hu , Haesol Im , Xinxin Li , Henry Wolkowicz