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In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo

Nested parallelism exists in scientific codes that are searching multi-dimensional spaces. However, implementations of nested parallelism often have overhead and load balance issues. The Orbital Analysis code we present exhibits a sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Benjamin James Gaska , Neha Jothi , Mahdi Soltan Mohammadi , Kat Volk , Michelle Mills Strout

Human environments contain numerous objects configured in a variety of arrangements. Our goal is to enable robots to repose previously unseen objects according to learned semantic relationships in novel environments. We break this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Chris Paxton , Chris Xie , Tucker Hermans , Dieter Fox

We propose constant approximation algorithms for generalizations of the Flexible Flow Shop (FFS) problem which form a realistic model for non-preemptive scheduling in MapReduce systems. Our results concern the minimization of the total…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Dimitrios Fotakis , Ioannis Milis , Emmanouil Zampetakis , Georgios Zois

We study a single-machine scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times, motivated by applications in manufacturing and service industries - in particular, the calendering stage in rubber flooring production. In this phase, setup…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Dominik Leib , Till Heller , Raphael Kühn

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

While previous work on energy-efficient algorithms focused on assumption that tasks can be assigned to any processor, we initially study the problem of task scheduling on restricted parallel processors. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Ying Song , Liya Fan , Zhiyong Liu

In this work, we propose an optimization framework for estimating a sparse robust one-dimensional subspace. Our objective is to minimize both the representation error and the penalty, in terms of the l1-norm criterion. Given that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-07 Xiao Ling , Paul Brooks

This study presents a system integration approach for planning schedules, sequences, tasks, and motions for reconfigurable robots to automatically disassemble constrained structures in a non-destructive manner. Such systems must adapt their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Takuya Kiyokawa , Tomoki Ishikura , Shingo Hamada , Genichiro Matsuda , Kensuke Harada

Sequential algorithms for the Stable Matching Problem are often too slow in the context of some large scale applications like switch scheduling. Parallel architectures can offer a notable decrease in runtime complexity. We propose a stable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Scott Wynn , Alec Kyritsis , Stephora Alberi , Enyue Lu

The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel model of computation has been used for the architecture independent design and analysis of parallel algorithms whose performance is expressed not only in terms of problem size n but also in terms of parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Alexandros V. Gerbessiotis , Constantinos J. Siniolakis

We study the problem of clustering networks whose nodes have imputed or physical positions in a single dimension, for example prestige hierarchies or the similarity dimension of hyperbolic embeddings. Existing algorithms, such as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Alice Patania , Antoine Allard , Jean-Gabriel Young

Split learning (SL) has been recently proposed as a way to enable resource-constrained devices to train multi-parameter neural networks (NNs) and participate in federated learning (FL). In a nutshell, SL splits the NN model into parts, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Joana Tirana , Dimitra Tsigkari , George Iosifidis , Dimitris Chatzopoulos

The parallel machine scheduling problem has been a popular topic for many years due to its theoretical and practical importance. This paper addresses the robust makespan optimization problem on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Chutong Gao , Weihao Wang , Leyuan Shi

We derive several numerical methods for designing optimized first-order algorithms in unconstrained convex optimization settings. Our methods are based on the Performance Estimation Problem (PEP) framework, which casts the worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yassine Kamri , Julien M. Hendrickx , François Glineur

Given a set of objects with durations (jobs) that cover a base region, can we schedule the jobs to maximize the duration the original region remains covered? We call this problem the sensor cover problem. This problem arises in the context…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adam L. Buchsbaum , Alon Efrat , Shaili Jain , Suresh Venkatasubramanian , Ke Yi

Achieving completeness in the motion planning problem demands substantial computation power, especially in high dimensions. Recent developments in parallel computing have rendered this more achievable. We introduce an embarrassingly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sihui Li , Neil T. Dantam

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 this paper we propose a variant of the linear least squares model allowing practitioners to partition the input features into groups of variables that they require to contribute similarly to the final result. The output allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Roberto Esposito , Mattia Cerrato , Marco Locatelli