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In this paper we propose a new efficient interpolation tool, extremely suitable for large scattered data sets. The partition of unity method is used and performed by blending Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) as local approximants and using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-18 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi , E. Perracchione

The advent of efficient interior point optimization methods has enabled the tractable solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear programming (NLP) problems. A prominent example of such a method is seen in Ipopt, a widely-used, open-source…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Byron Tasseff , Carleton Coffrin , Andreas Wächter , Carl Laird

We develop an algorithmic theory of convex optimization over discrete sets. Using a combination of algebraic and geometric tools we are able to provide polynomial time algorithms for solving broad classes of convex combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-24 Shmuel Onn

Integer linear programming (ILP) models a wide range of practical combinatorial optimization problems and significantly impacts industry and management sectors. This work proposes new characterizations of ILP with the concept of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Peng Lin , Shaowei Cai , Mengchuan Zou , Jinkun Lin

Many annotation problems in computer vision can be phrased as integer linear programs (ILPs). The use of standard industrial solvers does not to exploit the underlying structure of such problems eg, the skeleton in pose estimation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Shaofei Wang , Konrad Kording , Julian Yarkony

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

In this work, we consider adaptive linear programming (ALP) decoding of linear codes over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$ of size $p$ where $p$ is a prime. In particular, we provide a general construction of valid inequalities for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Eirik Rosnes , Michael Helmling

Cutting plane methods are a fundamental approach for solving integer linear programs (ILPs). In each iteration of such methods, additional linear constraints (cuts) are introduced to the constraint set with the aim of excluding the previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Pol Puigdemont , Stratis Skoulakis , Grigorios Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

In this paper we develop a randomized block-coordinate descent method for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a simple nonsmooth block-separable convex function and prove that it obtains an $\epsilon$-accurate solution with probability at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-15 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

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

Linear Programming (LP) is widely applied in industry and is a key component of various other mathematical problem-solving techniques. Recent work introduced an LP compiler translating polynomial-time, polynomial-space algorithms into…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shermin Khosravi , David Bremner

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is widely employed for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. In practice, similar MILP instances with only coefficient variations are routinely solved, and machine learning (ML) algorithms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Qingyu Han , Linxin Yang , Qian Chen , Xiang Zhou , Dong Zhang , Akang Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Xiaodong Luo

Packing and covering linear programs (PC-LPs) form an important class of linear programs (LPs) across computer science, operations research, and optimization. In 1993, Luby and Nisan constructed an iterative algorithm for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

Current algorithms for large-scale industrial optimization problems typically face a trade-off: they either require exponential time to reach optimal solutions, or employ problem-specific heuristics. To overcome these limitations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matteo Vandelli , Francesco Ferrari , Daniele Dragoni

This paper presents a hybrid CPU-GPU framework for solving combinatorial scheduling problems formulated as Integer Linear Programming (ILP). While scheduling underpins many optimization tasks in computing systems, solving these problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mingju Liu , Jiaqi Yin , Alvaro Velasquez , Cunxi Yu

In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

The article provides a solution algorithm for the linear programming problem (LPP) with the latter being presented as an antagonistic matrix game so the game's further solution is based on the iterative method. The algorithm is presented as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Vilisov V. Ya

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

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…