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The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

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We propose a fast and robust method to estimate the ground surface from LIDAR measurements on an automated vehicle. The ground surface is modeled as a UBS which is robust towards varying measurement densities and with a single parameter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Sascha Wirges , Kevin Rösch , Frank Bieder , Christoph Stiller

Quantum Noise Characterization (QNC) is indispensable for benchmarking and mitigating errors in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. However, traditional Quantum Process Tomography (QPT) suffers from an exponential parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Xiangyu Ge , Shengmei Zhao , Le Wang , Anqi Zhang

The Covering Salesman Problem (CSP) is a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem in which the tour is not required to visit all vertices, as long as all vertices are covered by the tour. The objective of CSP is to find a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Lucas Porto Maziero , Fábio Luiz Usberti , Celso Cavellucci

High-dimensional Bayesian Optimization (BO) has attracted significant attention in recent research. However, existing methods have mainly focused on optimizing in continuous domains, while combinatorial (ordinal and categorical) and mixed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Lam Ngo , Huong Ha , Jeffrey Chan , Hongyu Zhang

We propose a multiscale method for mixed-dimensional elliptic problems with highly heterogeneous coefficients arising, for example, in the modeling of fractured porous media. The method is based on the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Moritz Hauck , Axel Målqvist , Malin Mosquera

This study investigates the area of general quadratic integer programming (QIP), encompassing both unconstrained (UQIP) and constrained (CQIP) variants. These NP-hard problems have far-reaching applications, yet the non-convex cases have…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Haibo Wang , Bahram Alidaee

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a fundamental challenge in combinatorial optimization, widely applied in logistics and transportation. As the size of TSP instances grows, traditional algorithms often struggle to produce high-quality…

This paper discusses the computational resolution and presents numerical results for solving affine combinations of Heaviside composite optimization problems (abbreviated as A-HSCOPs) by a progressive integer programming (abbreviated as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Ke Zheng , Junyi Liu , Yurui Wang , Jong-Shi Pang

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) addresses many important problems, including the challenging Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. Alongside exact and heuristic solvers, differentiable approaches have emerged, often using continuous…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ismail Alkhouri , Cedric Le Denmat , Yingjie Li , Cunxi Yu , Jia Liu , Rongrong Wang , Alvaro Velasquez

Probabilistic smoothing is a standard tool for global optimization, but existing methods rely on Gaussian kernels and specific transforms, often resulting in strong hyperparameter sensitivity and limited robustness. We propose a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kukyoung Jang , Taehyun Cho , Junrui Zhang , Ping Xu , Kyungjae Lee

For any local Hamiltonian H, I construct a local CPT map and stopping condition which converges to the ground state subspace of H. Like any ground state preparation algorithm, this algorithm necessarily has exponential run-time in general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Toby S. Cubitt

In the Traveling Salesperson Problem with Neighborhoods (TSPN), we are given a collection of geometric regions in some space. The goal is to output a tour of minimum length that visits at least one point in each region. Even in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Antonios Antoniadis , Krzysztof Fleszar , Ruben Hoeksma , Kevin Schewior

Trajectory optimization is the core of modern model-based robotic control and motion planning. Existing trajectory optimizers, based on sequential quadratic programming (SQP) or differential dynamic programming (DDP), are often limited by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haizhou Zhao , Ludovic Righetti , Majid Khadiv

The performance of hyperspectral unmixing may be constrained by low spatial resolution, which can be enhanced using super-resolution in a multitask learning way. However, integrating super-resolution and unmixing directly may suffer two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruiying Li , Bin Pan , Qiaoying Qu , Xia Xu , Zhenwei Shi

Simultaneous Localization and Planning (SLAP) under process and measurement uncertainties is a challenge. It involves solving a stochastic control problem modeled as a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) in a general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty , P. R. Kumar

We consider a Hamiltonian decomposition problem of partitioning a regular graph into edge-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles. A sufficient condition for vertex adjacency in the 1-skeleton of the traveling salesperson polytope can be formulated as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Andrei Nikolaev , Anna Kozlova

Mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) has seen significant algorithmic and hardware improvements with several orders of magnitude solve time speedups compared to 25 years ago. Despite these advances, MICP has been rarely applied to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 A. Cauligi , P. Culbertson , B. Stellato , D. Bertsimas , M. Schwager , M. Pavone

In this work we introduce an evolutionary strategy to solve combinatorial optimization tasks, i.e. problems characterized by a discrete search space. In particular, we focus on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), i.e. a famous problem…

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