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The investigation of width parameters in both graph and algebraic contexts has attracted considerable interest. Among these parameters, the linear branch width has emerged as a crucial measure. In this concise paper, we explore the concept…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Takaaki Fujita

Suppose that there is a ground set which consists of a large number of vectors in a Hilbert space. Consider the problem of selecting a subset of the ground set such that the projection of a vector of interest onto the subspace spanned by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Zhenliang Zhang , Yuan Wang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Louis Scharf

Matroid interdiction problems are well-researched in the field of combinatorial optimization. In the matroid $\ell$-interdiction problem, an interdiction strategy removes a subset of cardinality $\ell$ from the matroid's ground set. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Nils Hausbrandt , Levin Nemesch , Stefan Ruzika

We introduce the parametric matroid one-interdiction problem. Given a matroid, each element of its ground set is associated with a weight that depends linearly on a real parameter from a given parameter interval. The goal is to find, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Nils Hausbrandt , Oliver Bachtler , Stefan Ruzika , Luca E. Schäfer

An effective technique for solving optimization problems over massive data sets is to partition the data into smaller pieces, solve the problem on each piece and compute a representative solution from it, and finally obtain a solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Vahab Mirrokni , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We address a specific case of the matroid intersection problem: given a set of graphs sharing the same set of vertices, select a minimum cycle basis for each graph to maximize the size of their intersection. We provide a comprehensive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dimitri Watel , Marc-Antoine Weisser , Dominique Barth , Ylène Aboulfath , Thierry Mautor

We study the problem of approximating a matrix $\mathbf{A}$ with a matrix that has a fixed sparsity pattern (e.g., diagonal, banded, etc.), when $\mathbf{A}$ is accessed only by matrix-vector products. We describe a simple randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Noah Amsel , Tyler Chen , Feyza Duman Keles , Diana Halikias , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

We consider the demixing problem of two (or more) high-dimensional vectors from nonlinear observations when the number of such observations is far less than the ambient dimension of the underlying vectors. Specifically, we demonstrate an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-25 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

The Matroid Secretary Problem (MSP) is one of the most prominent settings for online resource allocation and optimal stopping. A decision-maker is presented with a ground set of elements $E$ revealed sequentially and in random order. Upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kristóf Bérczi , Vasilis Livanos , José Soto , Victor Verdugo

Dantzig Selector (DS) is widely used in compressed sensing and sparse learning for feature selection and sparse signal recovery. Since the DS formulation is essentially a linear programming optimization, many existing linear programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Bo Liu , Luwan Zhang , Ji Liu

Analyzing massive data sets has been one of the key motivations for studying streaming algorithms. In recent years, there has been significant progress in analysing distributions in a streaming setting, but the progress on graph problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Linear matroid intersection is an important problem in combinatorial optimization. Given two linear matroids over the same ground set, the linear matroid intersection problem asks you to find a common independent set of maximum size. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Aryan Agarwala , Yaroslav Alekseev , Antoine Vinciguerra

Discrepancy theory provides powerful tools for producing higher-quality objects which "beat the union bound" in fundamental settings throughout combinatorics and computer science. However, this quality has often come at the price of more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Arun Jambulapati , Victor Reis , Kevin Tian

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

Radio interferometry has always faced the problem of incomplete sampling of the Fourier plane. A possible remedy can be found in the promising new theory of compressed sensing (CS), which allows for the accurate recovery of sparse signals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Clara Fannjiang

We show algorithms for computing representative families for matroid intersections and use them in fixed-parameter algorithms for set packing, set covering, and facility location problems with multiple matroid constraints. We complement our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 René van Bevern , Oxana Yu. Tsidulko , Philipp Zschoche

In the matroid secretary problem we are given a stream of elements and asked to choose a set of elements that maximizes the total value of the set, subject to being an independent set of a matroid given in advance. The difficulty comes from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Michael Dinitz , Guy Kortsarz

Optimal Transport is a useful metric to compare probability distributions and to compute a pairing given a ground cost. Its entropic regularization variant (eOT) is crucial to have fast algorithms and reflect fuzzy/noisy matchings. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Francisco Andrade , Gabriel Peyre , Clarice Poon

Huge scale machine learning problems are nowadays tackled by distributed optimization algorithms, i.e. algorithms that leverage the compute power of many devices for training. The communication overhead is a key bottleneck that hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Sebastian U. Stich , Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Martin Jaggi

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou