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Knapsack and Subset Sum are fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Recently there has been a growing interest in understanding the best possible pseudopolynomial running times for these problems with respect to various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Adam Polak , Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

We consider the 0-1 Incremental Knapsack Problem (IKP) where the capacity grows over time periods and if an item is placed in the knapsack in a certain period, it cannot be removed afterwards. The contribution of a packed item in each time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Federico Della Croce , Ulrich Pferschy , Rosario Scatamacchia

We study the d-dimensional hypercube knapsack problem where we are given a set of d-dimensional hypercubes with associated profits, and a knapsack which is a unit d-dimensional hypercube. The goal is to find an axis-aligned non-overlapping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Klaus Jansen , Arindam Khan , Marvin Lira , K. V. N. Sreenivas

The development of a satisfying and rigorous mathematical understanding of the performance of neural networks is a major challenge in artificial intelligence. Against this background, we study the expressive power of neural networks through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Christoph Hertrich , Martin Skutella

The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Aneta Neumann

One of the most fundamental problems in Computer Science is the Knapsack problem. Given a set of n items with different weights and values, it asks to pick the most valuable subset whose total weight is below a capacity threshold T. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kyriakos Axiotis , Christos Tzamos

We develop a novel mathematical programming approximation framework to tackle the stochastic knapsack problem. In this problem, the decision maker considers items for which either weights or values, or both, are random. The aim is to select…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Roberto Rossi , Steven D. Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

This paper presents an algorithmic study of a class of covering mixed-integer linear programming problems which encompasses classic cover problems, including multidimensional knapsack, facility location and supplier selection problems. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kobe Grobben , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

We study a natural geometric variant of the classic Knapsack problem called 2D-Knapsack: we are given a set of axis-parallel rectangles and a rectangular bounding box, and the goal is to pack as many of these rectangles inside the box…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Michal Pilipczuk , Mathieu Mari , Timothe Picavet

We study the geometric knapsack problem in which we are given a set of $d$-dimensional objects (each with associated profits) and the goal is to find the maximum profit subset that can be packed non-overlappingly into a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Pritam Acharya , Sujoy Bhore , Aaryan Gupta , Arindam Khan , Bratin Mondal , Andreas Wiese

We study the $d$-dimensional knapsack problem. We are given a set of items, each with a $d$-dimensional cost vector and a profit, along with a $d$-dimensional budget vector. The goal is to select a set of items that do not exceed the budget…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ilan Doron-Arad , Ariel Kulik , Pasin Manurangsi

In stochastic combinatorial optimization, algorithms differ in their adaptivity: whether or not they query realized randomness and adapt to it. Dean et al. (FOCS '04) formalize the adaptivity gap, which compares the performance of fully…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zohar Barak , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

We study the uniform $2$-dimensional vector multiple knapsack (2VMK) problem, a natural variant of multiple knapsack arising in real-world applications such as virtual machine placement. The input for 2VMK is a set of items, each associated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tomer Cohen , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

We consider a variant of bin packing called multiple-choice vector bin packing. In this problem we are given a set of items, where each item can be selected in one of several $D$-dimensional incarnations. We are also given $T$ bin types,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Dror Rawitz

We investigate the contextual bandits with knapsack (CBwK) problem in a high-dimensional linear setting, where the feature dimension can be very large. Our goal is to harness sparsity to obtain sharper regret guarantees. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wanteng Ma , Dong Xia , Jiashuo Jiang

The 0/1 multidimensional knapsack problem is the 0/1 knapsack problem with m constraints which makes it difficult to solve using traditional methods like dynamic programming or branch and bound algorithms. We present a genetic algorithm for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Shalin Shah

Online knapsack problem is considered, where items arrive in a sequential fashion that have two attributes; value and weight. Each arriving item has to be accepted or rejected on its arrival irrevocably. The objective is to maximize the sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Rahul Vaze

In the \textsc{2-Dimensional Knapsack} problem (2DK) we are given a square knapsack and a collection of $n$ rectangular items with integer sizes and profits. Our goal is to find the most profitable subset of items that can be packed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Waldo Gálvez , Fabrizio Grandoni , Arindam Khan , Diego Ramírez-Romero , Andreas Wiese

We study the two-dimensional geometric knapsack problem (2DK) in which we are given a set of n axis-aligned rectangular items, each one with an associated profit, and an axis-aligned square knapsack. The goal is to find a (non-overlapping)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Waldo Gálvez , Fabrizio Grandoni , Sandy Heydrich , Salvatore Ingala , Arindam Khan , Andreas Wiese

The stochastic knapsack problem is the stochastic variant of the classical knapsack problem in which the algorithm designer is given a a knapsack with a given capacity and a collection of items where each item is associated with a profit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Anindya De