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Short integer linear programs are programs with a relatively small number of constraints. We show how recent improvements on the running-times of solvers for such programs can be used to obtain fast pseudo-polynomial time algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

Integer linear programs (ILPs) are a widely applied framework for dealing with combinatorial problems that arise in practice. It is known, e.g., by the success of CPLEX, that preprocessing and simplification can greatly speed up the process…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Stefan Kratsch

We present a new and faster algorithm for the 4-block integer linear programming problem, overcoming the long-standing runtime barrier faced by previous algorithms that rely on Graver complexity or proximity bounds. The 4-block integer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Alexandra Lassota , Koen Ligthart

We present the first near optimal approximation schemes for the maximum weighted (uncapacitated or capacitated) $b$--matching problems for non-bipartite graphs that run in time (near) linear in the number of edges. For any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Positive linear programs (LP), also known as packing and covering linear programs, are an important class of problems that bridges computer science, operations research, and optimization. Despite the consistent efforts on this problem, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

In recent years, algorithmic breakthroughs in stringology, computational social choice, scheduling, etc., were achieved by applying the theory of so-called $n$-fold integer programming. An $n$-fold integer program (IP) has a highly uniform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Kateřina Altmanová , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký

In this paper we generalize N-fold integer programs and two-stage integer programs with N scenarios to N-fold 4-block decomposable integer programs. We show that for fixed blocks but variable N, these integer programs are polynomial-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Robert Weismantel

We provide a number of algorithmic results for the following family of problems: For a given binary m\times n matrix A and integer k, decide whether there is a "simple" binary matrix B which differs from A in at most k entries. For an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Fahad Panolan

This paper deals with exploiting symmetry for solving linear and integer programming problems. Basic properties of linear representations of finite groups can be used to reduce symmetric linear programming to solving linear programs of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Richard Bödi , Katrin Herr , Michael Joswig

We address the problem of testing weak optimality of a given solution of a given interval linear program. The problem was recently wrongly stated to be polynomially solvable. We disprove it. We show that the problem is NP-hard in general.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Miroslav Rada , Milan Hladík , Elif Garajová

Arising from structural graph theory, treewidth has become a focus of study in fixed-parameter tractable algorithms in various communities including combinatorics, integer-linear programming, and numerical analysis. Many NP-hard problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sally Dong , Yin Tat Lee , Guanghao Ye

Packing and covering linear programs belong to the narrow class of linear programs that are efficiently solvable in parallel and distributed models of computation, yet are a powerful modeling tool for a wide range of fundamental problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Negin Bagherpour , Mahdi Sharifzadeh

Integer linear programming (ILP) encompasses a very important class of optimization problems that are of great interest to both academia and industry. Several algorithms are available that attempt to explore the solution space of this class…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Integer programming (IP), as the name suggests is an integer-variable-based approach commonly used to formulate real-world optimization problems with constraints. Currently, quantum algorithms reformulate the IP into an unconstrained form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

We show how to solve a number of problems in numerical linear algebra, such as least squares regression, $\ell_p$-regression for any $p \geq 1$, low rank approximation, and kernel regression, in time $T(A) \poly(\log(nd))$, where for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Xiaofei Shi , David P. Woodruff

Positive semidefinite programs are an important subclass of semidefinite programs in which all matrices involved in the specification of the problem are positive semidefinite and all scalars involved are non-negative. We present a parallel…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-14 Rahul Jain , Penghui Yao

The class $(r,2)$-CSP, or simply Max 2-CSP, consists of constraint satisfaction problems with at most two $r$-valued variables per clause. For instances with $n$ variables and $m$ binary clauses, we present an $O(n r^{5+19m/100})$-time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-03-26 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin

Makespan scheduling on identical machines is one of the most basic and fundamental packing problems studied in the discrete optimization literature. It asks for an assignment of $n$ jobs to a set of $m$ identical machines that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein , José Verschae

Allen's interval algebra is one of the most well-known calculi in qualitative temporal reasoning with numerous applications in artificial intelligence. Recently, there has been a surge of improvements in the fine-grained complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist