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We present a novel formulation of the multiple object tracking problem which integrates low and mid-level features. In particular, we formulate the tracking problem as a quadratic program coupling detections and dense point trajectories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Roberto Henschel , Laura Leal-Taixé , Bodo Rosenhahn , Konrad Schindler

Machine learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being used to accelerate combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. We investigate the Set Cover Problem (SCP) and propose Graph-SCP, a graph neural network method that augments existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zohair Shafi , Benjamin A. Miller , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Rajmonda S. Caceres

The symmetry of complex networks is a global property that has recently gained attention since MacArthur et al. 2008 showed that many real-world networks contain a considerable number of symmetries. These authors work with a very strict…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Anna Pidnebesna , David Hartman , Aneta Pokorná , Matěj Straka , Jaroslav Hlinka

In this paper, we consider convex quadratic optimization problems with indicator variables when the matrix $Q$ defining the quadratic term in the objective is sparse. We use a graphical representation of the support of $Q$, and show that if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Peijing Liu , Salar Fattahi , Andrés Gómez , Simge Küçükyavuz

We consider a parametric convex quadratic programming, CQP, relaxation for the quadratic knapsack problem, QKP. This relaxation maintains partial quadratic information from the original QKP by perturbing the objective function to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Marcia Fampa , Daniela Cristina Lubke , Fei Wang , Henry Wolkowicz

We consider the graph alignment problem, wherein the objective is to find a vertex correspondence between two graphs that maximizes the edge overlap. The graph alignment problem is an instance of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-07 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Irène Waldspurger , Laurent Massoulié

Shape matching has been a long-studied problem for the computer graphics and vision community. The objective is to predict a dense correspondence between meshes that have a certain degree of deformation. Existing methods either consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Mahdi Saleh , Shun-Cheng Wu , Luca Cosmo , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

We study the \emph{Proximal Alternating Predictor-Corrector} (PAPC) algorithm introduced recently by Drori, Sabach and Teboulle to solve nonsmooth structured convex-concave saddle point problems consisting of the sum of a smooth convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 D. Russell Luke , Ron Shefi

We consider the problem of exact and inexact matching of weighted undirected graphs, in which a bijective correspondence is sought to minimize a quadratic weight disagreement. This computationally challenging problem is often relaxed as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Yonathan Aflalo , Alex Bronstein , Ron Kimmel

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Quadratic assignment problems are a fundamental class of combinatorial optimization problems which are ubiquitous in applications, yet their exact resolution is NP-hard. To circumvent this impasse, it was proposed to regularize such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Venkatkrishna Karumanchi , Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld

We address a decentralized convex optimization problem, where every agent has its unique local objective function and constraint set. Agents compute at different speeds, and their communication may be delayed and directed. For this setup,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Firooz Shahriari-Mehr , Ashkan Panahi

The Cyclic Antibandwidth Problem (CABP), a variant of the Antibandwidth Problem, is an NP-hard graph labeling problem with numerous applications. Despite significant research efforts, existing state-of-the-art approaches for CABP are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Hieu Truong Xuan , Khanh To Van

Recent increase in the availability of warped images projected onto a manifold (e.g., omnidirectional spherical images), coupled with the success of higher-order assignment methods, has sparked an interest in the search for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Charu Sharma , Manohar Kaul

We propose a data-driven approach for deep convolutional neural network compression that achieves high accuracy with high throughput and low memory requirements. Current network compression methods either find a low-rank factorization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Breton Minnehan , Andreas Savakis

This paper investigates convex quadratic optimization problems involving $n$ indicator variables, each associated with a continuous variable, particularly focusing on scenarios where the matrix $Q$ defining the quadratic term is positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Aaresh Bhathena , Salar Fattahi , Andrés Gómez , Simge Küçükyavuz

Given an undirected graph with edge costs and edge demands, the Capacitated Arc Routing problem (CARP) asks for minimum-cost routes for equal-capacity vehicles so as to satisfy all demands. Constant-factor polynomial-time approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-15 René van Bevern , Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein , Manuel Sorge

Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, therefore, solving the QAP requires applying one or more of the meta-heuristic algorithms. This paper presents a comparative study between Meta-heuristic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Gamal Abd El-Nasser A. Said , Abeer M. Mahmoud , El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty

We present a new algorithmic paradigm for the decentralized solution of graph-structured optimization problems that arise in the estimation and control of network systems. A key and novel design concept of the proposed approach is that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Sungho Shin , Victor M. Zavala , Mihai Anitescu

A range of quantum algorithms, especially those leveraging variational parameterization and circuit-based optimization, are being studied as alternatives for solving classically intractable combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Monit Sharma , Hoong Chuin Lau