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This paper studies high-speed online planning in dynamic environments. The problem requires finding time-optimal trajectories that conform to system dynamics, meeting computational constraints for real-time adaptation, and accounting for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Gilhyun Ryou , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

In this study, we present a novel swarm-based approach for generating optimized stress-aligned trajectories for 3D printing applications. The method utilizes swarming dynamics to simulate the motion of virtual agents along the stress…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Xavier Guidetti , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

Sparsity has been widely recognized as crucial for efficient optimization in graph-based SLAM. Because the sparsity and structure of the SLAM graph reflect the set of incorporated measurements, many methods for sparsification have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Kristoffer M. Frey , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

We study graphons as a non-parametric generalization of stochastic block models, and show how to obtain compactly represented estimators for sparse networks in this framework. Our algorithms and analysis go beyond previous work in several…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Shirshendu Ganguly

In wireless networks characterized by dense connectivity, the significant signaling overhead generated by distributed link scheduling algorithms can exacerbate issues like congestion, energy consumption, and radio footprint expansion. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhongyuan Zhao , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

We give a simple algorithm for the dynamic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem. Given a graph $G = (V, E, l)$ with polynomially bounded edge lengths, our data structure processes $|E|$ edge insertions and deletions in total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Gernot Zöcklein

Given a graph G and the desired size k in bits, how can we summarize G within k bits, while minimizing the information loss? Large-scale graphs have become omnipresent, posing considerable computational challenges. Analyzing such large…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kyuhan Lee , Hyeonsoo Jo , Jihoon Ko , Sungsu Lim , Kijung Shin

The current National Airspace System (NAS) is reaching capacity due to increased air traffic, and is based on outdated pre-tactical planning. This study proposes a more dynamic airspace configuration (DAC) approach that could increase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Ke Feng , Dahai Liu , Yongxin Liu , Hong Liu , Houbing Song

Path planning for multiple robots (MRPP) represents a task of finding non-colliding paths for robots through which they can navigate from their initial positions to specified goal positions. The problem is usually modeled using undirected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Pavel Surynek

Dynamic connectivity is a fundamental dynamic graph problem, and recent algorithmic breakthroughs on dynamic graph sketching have reshaped what is theoretically possible: by encoding the graph as per-vertex linear sketches, these algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Quinten De Man , Gilvir Gill , Michael A. Bender , Laxman Dhulipala , David Tench

In an era of unprecedented deluge of (mostly unstructured) data, graphs are proving more and more useful, across the sciences, as a flexible abstraction to capture complex relationships between complex objects. One of the main challenges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-17 Alaa Saade

We present Spartan, a method for training sparse neural network models with a predetermined level of sparsity. Spartan is based on a combination of two techniques: (1) soft top-k masking of low-magnitude parameters via a regularized optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kai Sheng Tai , Taipeng Tian , Ser-Nam Lim

Exploiting sparsity enables hardware systems to run neural networks faster and more energy-efficiently. However, most prior sparsity-centric optimization techniques only accelerate the forward pass of neural networks and usually require an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Maohua Zhu , Jason Clemons , Jeff Pool , Minsoo Rhu , Stephen W. Keckler , Yuan Xie

A fundamental question that shrouds the emergence of massively parallel computing (MPC) platforms is how can the additional power of the MPC paradigm be leveraged to achieve faster algorithms compared to classical parallel models such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sepehr Assadi , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in solving graph classification tasks. However, most GNN architectures aggregate information from all nodes and edges in a graph, regardless of their relevance to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-19 Pablo Sanchez-Martin , Kinaan Aamir Khan , Isabel Valera

A novel multi-robot path planning approach is presented in this paper. Based on the standard Dijkstra, the algorithm looks for the optimal paths for a formation of robots, taking into account the possibility of split and merge. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Estefanía Pereyra , Gastón Araguás , Miroslav Kulich

Deep neural networks often suffer from poor generalization caused by complex and non-convex loss landscapes. One of the popular solutions is Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), which smooths the loss landscape via minimizing the maximized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Peng Mi , Li Shen , Tianhe Ren , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji , Dacheng Tao

Graph condensation aims to reduce the size of a large-scale graph dataset by synthesizing a compact counterpart without sacrificing the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) trained on it, which has shed light on reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuchen Zhang , Tianle Zhang , Kai Wang , Ziyao Guo , Yuxuan Liang , Xavier Bresson , Wei Jin , Yang You

In this paper, we deal with the problem of creating globally consistent pose graphs in a centralized multi-robot SLAM framework. For each robot to act autonomously, individual onboard pose estimates and maps are maintained, which are then…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Lukas Bernreiter , Shehryar Khattak , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Marco Hutter , Cesar Cadena

We consider the problem of high-dimensional Gaussian graphical model selection. We identify a set of graphs for which an efficient estimation algorithm exists, and this algorithm is based on thresholding of empirical conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Animashree Anandkumar , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Alan. S. Willsky