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Vertex Subset Problems (VSPs) are a class of combinatorial optimization problems on graphs where the goal is to find a subset of vertices satisfying a predefined condition. Two prominent approaches for solving VSPs are dynamic programming…

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We present a new algorithm for the exact uniform sampling of proper \(k\)-colorings of a graph on \(n\) vertices with maximum degree~\(\Delta\). The algorithm is based on partial rejection sampling (PRS) and introduces a soft relaxation of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sarat Moka , Ava Vahedi

Subset Sum Ratio is the following optimization problem: Given a set of $n$ positive numbers $I$, find disjoint subsets $X,Y \subseteq I$ minimizing the ratio $\max\{\Sigma(X)/\Sigma(Y),\Sigma(Y)/\Sigma(X)\}$, where $\Sigma(Z)$ denotes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Karl Bringmann

Let $P:\{0,1\}^k \to \{0,1\}$ be a nontrivial $k$-ary predicate. Consider a random instance of the constraint satisfaction problem $\mathrm{CSP}(P)$ on $n$ variables with $\Delta n$ constraints, each being $P$ applied to $k$ randomly chosen…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Pravesh K. Kothari , Ryuhei Mori , Ryan O'Donnell , David Witmer

In this paper we study the subset sum problem with real numbers. Starting from the given problem, we formulate a quadratic maximization problem over a polytope, P, which is eventually written as a distance maximization to a fixed point over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Marius Costandin

In the field of algorithmic analysis, one of the more well-known exercises is the subset sum problem. That is, given a set of integers, determine whether one or more integers in the set can sum to a target value. Aside from the brute-force…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Daniel Shea

We give an overview of the Hidden Subgroup Problem (HSP) as of July 2010, including new results discovered since the survey of arXiv:quant-ph/0411037v1. We recall how the problem provides a framework for efficient quantum algorithms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Frédéric Wang

The Subset Sum Problem is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization, with many real-world applications. The Random Subset Sum Problem (RSSP) is a more applicable version of subset sum, where numbers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Edwin Chen , Christof Teuscher

We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

We consider the computational complexity of reconfiguration problems, in which one is given two combinatorial configurations satisfying some constraints, and is asked to transform one into the other using elementary transformations, while…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Jean Cardinal , Erik D. Demaine , David Eppstein , Robert A. Hearn , Andrew Winslow

We propose a new algorithm that finds an $\varepsilon$-approximate fixed point of a smooth function from the $n$-dimensional $\ell_2$ unit ball to itself. We use the general framework of finding approximate solutions to a variational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Idan Attias , Yuval Dagan , Constantinos Daskalakis , Rui Yao , Manolis Zampetakis

A set cover of a hypergraph $H$ is a set of vertices intersecting every hyperedge. In the minimum sum set cover problem, vertices are selected one by one; each edge pays the position of the first vertex that hits it, and the objective is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhongyi Zhang , Yixin Cao

Subset sum is a very old and fundamental problem in theoretical computer science. In this problem, $n$ items with weights $w_1, w_2, w_3, \ldots, w_n$ are given as input and the goal is to find out if there is a subset of them whose weights…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hamed Saleh , Saeed Seddighin

We present new, faster pseudopolynomial time algorithms for the $k$-Subset Sum problem, defined as follows: given a set $Z$ of $n$ positive integers and $k$ targets $t_1, \ldots, t_k$, determine whether there exist $k$ disjoint subsets…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Antonis Antonopoulos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stavros Petsalakis , Manolis Vasilakis

We consider the offset-deconstruction problem: Given a polygonal shape Q with n vertices, can it be expressed, up to a tolerance \eps in Hausdorff distance, as the Minkowski sum of another polygonal shape P with a disk of fixed radius? If…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-09-13 Eric Berberich , Dan Halperin , Michael Kerber , Roza Pogalnikova

Weighted variants of triangle detection are an important object of study because of their prominence in fine-grained complexity. We revisit the Node-Weighted Triangle problem, where the goal is to decide if a vertex-weighted graph contains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shyan Akmal , Nick Fischer

We study the problem of discrete geometric packing. Here, given weighted regions (say in the plane) and points (with capacities), one has to pick a maximum weight subset of the regions such that no point is covered more than its capacity.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Alina Ene , Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

Given a multiset $S$ of $n$ positive integers and a target integer $t$, the subset sum problem is to decide if there is a subset of $S$ that sums up to $t$. We present a new divide-and-conquer algorithm that computes all the realizable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Konstantinos Koiliaris , Chao Xu

An NP-hard problem is considered of intersecting a given set of $n$ straight line segments on the plane with the smallest cardinality set of disks of fixed radii $r>0,$ where the set of segments forms a straight line drawing $G=(V,E)$ of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Konstantin Kobylkin

Given a collection S of subsets of some set U, and M a subset of U, the set cover problem is to find the smallest subcollection C of S such that M is a subset of the union of the sets in C. While the general problem is NP-hard to solve,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Kasturi Varadarajan