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We study the convex hull membership (CHM) problem in the pure exploration setting where one aims to efficiently and accurately determine if a given point lies in the convex hull of means of a finite set of distributions. We give a complete…
Convexity, though extremely important in mathematical programming, has not drawn enough attention in the field of dynamic programming. This paper gives conditions for verifying convexity of the cost-to-go functions, and introduces an…
In the field of indoor robotics, accurately localizing and mapping in dynamic environments using point clouds can be a challenging task due to the presence of dynamic points. These dynamic points are often represented by people in indoor…
Let $D$ be an orientation of a simple graph. Given $u,v\in V(D)$, a directed shortest $(u,v)$-path is a $(u,v)$-geodesic. $S \subseteq V(D)$ is convex if, for every $u,v \in S$, the vertices in each $(u,v)$-geodesic and in each…
A new approach to the local and global explanation is proposed. It is based on selecting a convex hull constructed for the finite number of points around an explained instance. The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of…
Localizing targets outside the anchors' convex hull is an understudied but prevalent scenario in vehicle-centric, UAV-based, and self-localization applications. Considering such scenarios, this paper studies the optimal anchor placement…
Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) provides a natural framework for optimization models that combine logical decisions with nonlinear constraints. The Hull Reformulation (HR) is attractive because it yields tight continuous…
In this paper we introduce a class of novel distributed algorithms for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems over directed graphs. In the addressed set-up, the dimension of the decision variable can be extremely high and…
This paper explores the notion of approximate data structures, which return approximately correct answers to queries, but run faster than their exact counterparts. The paper describes approximate variants of the van Emde Boas data…
Globally non-positively curved, or CAT(0), polyhedral complexes arise in a number of applications, including evolutionary biology and robotics. These spaces have unique shortest paths and are composed of Euclidean polyhedra, yet many…
Applications involving dictionary learning, non-negative matrix factorization, subspace clustering, and parallel factor tensor decomposition tasks motivate well algorithms for per-block-convex and non-smooth optimization problems. By…
In this paper, we consider the polyhedral structure of the unit commitment polytope. In particular, we provide the convex hull results for the problem under the following different settings: 1) the convex hulls for the integrated…
This paper presents a new algorithm for the convex hull problem, which is based on a reduction to a combinatorial decision problem POLYTOPE-COMPLETENESS-COMBINATORIAL, which in turn can be solved by a simplicial homology computation. Like…
Geometric set cover is a classical problem in computational geometry, which has been extensively studied in the past. In the dynamic version of the problem, points and ranges may be inserted and deleted, and our goal is to efficiently…
We consider change-point estimation in a sequence of high-dimensional signals given noisy observations. Classical approaches to this problem such as the filtered derivative method are useful for sequences of scalar-valued signals, but they…
It is well known that the convex hull of $\{(x,y,xy)\}$, where $(x,y)$ is constrained to lie in a box, is given by the Reformulation-Linearization Technique (RLT) constraints. Belotti {\em et al.\,}(2010) and Miller {\em et al.\,}(2011)…
This paper presents ParGeo, a multicore library for computational geometry. ParGeo contains modules for fundamental tasks including $k$d-tree based spatial search, spatial graph generation, and algorithms in computational geometry. We focus…
Given $S= \{v_1, \dots, v_n\} \subset \mathbb{R} ^m$ and $p \in \mathbb{R} ^m$, testing if $p \in conv(S)$, the convex hull of $S$, is a fundamental problem in computational geometry and linear programming. First, we prove a Euclidean {\it…
It is well-known that the McCormick relaxation for the bilinear constraint $z=xy$ gives the convex hull over the box domains for $x$ and $y$. In network applications where the domain of bilinear variables is described by a network polytope,…
We investigate online convex optimization in non-stationary environments and choose dynamic regret as the performance measure, defined as the difference between cumulative loss incurred by the online algorithm and that of any feasible…