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Given a spatio-temporal network (ST network) where edge properties vary with time, a time-sub-interval minimum spanning tree (TSMST) is a collection of minimum spanning trees of the ST network, where each tree is associated with a time…

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This paper considers the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse service requirements. This…

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We study the problem of finding contraction orderings on tensor networks for physical simulations using a syncretic abstract data type, the $\textit{contraction-tree}$, and explain its connection to temporal and spatial measures of tensor…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-30 J. Jakes-Schauer , D. Anekstein , P. Wocjan

In this paper the minimum spanning tree problem with uncertain edge costs is discussed. In order to model the uncertainty a discrete scenario set is specified and a robust framework is adopted to choose a solution. The min-max, min-max…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

We study non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) of spin chains with boundary Markovian dissipation from the computational complexity point of view. We focus on XX chains whose NESS are matrix product operators (MPO), i.e. with coefficients of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Ugo Marzolino , Tomaz Prosen

In this study, we introduce a novel family of tensor networks, termed constrained matrix product states (MPS), designed to incorporate exactly arbitrary discrete linear constraints, including inequalities, into sparse block structures.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Jing Chen

Tensor network contraction is a fundamental mathematical operation that generalizes the dot product and matrix multiplication. It finds applications in numerous domains, such as database systems, graph theory, machine learning, probability…

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The Minimum Branch Vertices Spanning Tree problem aims to find a spanning tree $T$ in a given graph $G$ with the fewest branch vertices, defined as vertices with a degree three or more in $T$. This problem, known to be NP-hard, has…

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Tensor operations are surging as the computational building blocks for a variety of scientific simulations and the development of high-performance kernels for such operations is known to be a challenging task. While for operations on one-…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Elmar Peise , Diego Fabregat-Traver , Paolo Bientinesi

Tensor network methods are a conceptually elegant framework for encoding complicated datasets, where high-order tensors are approximated as networks of low-order tensors. In practice, however, the numeric implementation of tensor network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Glen Evenbly

This work presents a novel method for task optimization in industrial plants using quantum-inspired tensor network technology. This method obtains the best possible combination of tasks on a set of machines with directed constraints while…

In the spanning-tree congestion problem ($\mathsf{STC}$), we are given a graph $G$, and the objective is to compute a spanning tree of $G$ that minimizes the maximum edge congestion. While $\mathsf{STC}$ is known to be $\mathbb{NP}$-hard,…

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Tensor networks are factorisations of high rank tensors into networks of lower rank tensors and have primarily been used to analyse quantum many-body problems. Tensor networks have seen a recent surge of interest in relation to supervised…

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We present a conceptually clear and algorithmically useful framework for parameterizing the costs of tensor network contraction. Our framework is completely general, applying to tensor networks with arbitrary bond dimensions, open legs, and…

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Low rank tensor learning, such as tensor completion and multilinear multitask learning, has received much attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose higher order matching pursuit for low rank tensor learning problems with a convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-10 Yuning Yang , Siamak Mehrkanoon , Johan A. K. Suykens

Recent years have witnessed significant interest in convex relaxations of the power flows, several papers showing that the second-order cone relaxation is tight for tree networks under various conditions on loads or voltages. This paper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Karsten Lehmann , Alban Grastien , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We consider the problem of finding the smallest or largest entry of a tensor of order N that is specified via its rank decomposition. Stated in a different way, we are given N sets of R-dimensional vectors and we wish to select one vector…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Paris Karakasis , Aritra Konar

The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching (PMMWM) problem is an NP-hard problem that combines the problem of partitioning a group of vertices of a bipartite graph into disjoint subsets with limited size and the classical Min-Max Weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yuxuan Wang , Jinyao Xie , Jiongzhi Zheng , Kun He

Local constraint ordered statistics decoding (LC-OSD) provides strong soft decision performance for short block length linear codes, but its practical cost is dominated by the number of tested error patterns (TEPs). This paper proposes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Talha Akyildiz , Hessam Mahdavifar

Motivated by the grid search method and Bayesian optimization, we introduce the concept of contractibility and its applications in model-based optimization. First, a basic framework of contraction methods is established to construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Xiaopeng Luo , Xin Xu