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3-SAT problem is of great importance to many technical and scientific applications. This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm for solving this satisfiability problem. 3-SAT problem has the huge search space and hence it is…

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This paper introduces a framework for Chance-Constrained Optimization with Complex Variables, addressing complex linear programming for both individual and joint probabilistic constraints in the complex domain. We first analyze the 3CP…

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Constrained optimization problems appear in a wide variety of challenging real-world problems, where constraints often capture the physics of the underlying system. Classic methods for solving these problems rely on iterative algorithms…

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We reexamine the classical subset sum problem: given a set $X$ of $n$ positive integers and a number $t$, decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ that sums to $t$; or more generally, compute the set $\mbox{out}$ of all numbers…

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In this paper we show that many sequential randomized incremental algorithms are in fact parallel. We consider algorithms for several problems including Delaunay triangulation, linear programming, closest pair, smallest enclosing disk,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Julian Shun , Yihan Sun

An analysis of high-dimensional data can offer a detailed description of a system but is often challenged by the curse of dimensionality. General dimensionality reduction techniques can alleviate such difficulty by extracting a few…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-28 Di Bo , Hoon Hwangbo , Vinit Sharma , Corey Arndt , Stephanie C. TerMaath

This paper presents a deterministic algorithmic approach of exploring the solution space of the Subset Sum Problem. The algorithm presented is input-robust and structurally adaptive. Exploration is guided and narrows into areas in the…

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The 3SUM problem represents a class of problems conjectured to require $\Omega (n^2)$ time to solve, where $n$ is the size of the input. Given two polygons $P$ and $Q$ in the plane, we show that some variants of the decision problem,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Gill Barequet , Sariel Har-Peled

We present techniques for decreasing the error probability of randomized algorithms and for converting randomized algorithms to deterministic (non-uniform) algorithms. Unlike most existing techniques that involve repetition of the…

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One of the cornerstones of the distributed complexity theory is the derandomization result by Chang, Kopelowitz, and Pettie [FOCS 2016]: any randomized LOCAL algorithm that solves a locally checkable labeling problem (LCL) can be…

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A large deviation analysis of the solving complexity of random 3-Satisfiability instances slightly below threshold is presented. While finding a solution for such instances demands an exponential effort with high probability, we show that…

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We revisit the classical problem of determining the largest copy of a simple polygon $P$ that can be placed into a simple polygon $Q$. Despite significant effort, known algorithms require high polynomial running times. (Barequet and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

A canonical feature of the constraint satisfaction problems in NP is approximation hardness, where in the worst case, finding sufficient-quality approximate solutions is exponentially hard for all known methods. Fundamentally, the lack of…

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We present a general approach to rounding semidefinite programming relaxations obtained by the Sum-of-Squares method (Lasserre hierarchy). Our approach is based on using the connection between these relaxations and the Sum-of-Squares proof…

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