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Although many authors have considered how many ternary comparisons it takes to sort a multiset $S$ of size $n$, the best known upper and lower bounds still differ by a term linear in $n$. In this paper we restrict our attention to online…

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Recently, finding the sparsest solution of an underdetermined linear system has become an important request in many areas such as compressed sensing, image processing, statistical learning, and data sparse approximation. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Jialiang Xu

The hitting set problem is one of the fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization and is well-studied in offline setup. We consider the online hitting set problem, where only the set of points is known in advance, and objects are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Minati De , Ratnadip Mandal , Satyam Singh

In this paper we discuss the variable selection method from \ell0-norm constrained regression, which is equivalent to the problem of finding the best subset of a fixed size. Our study focuses on two aspects, consistency and computation. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-20 Shifeng Xiong

Given two disjoint sets $W_1$ and $W_2$ of points in the plane, the Optimal Discretization problem asks for the minimum size of a family of horizontal and vertical lines that separate $W_1$ from $W_2$, that is, in every region into which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Stefan Kratsch , Tomáš Masařík , Irene Muzi , Marcin Pilipczuk , Manuel Sorge

We study a general family of facility location problems defined on planar graphs and on the 2-dimensional plane. In these problems, a subset of $k$ objects has to be selected, satisfying certain packing (disjointness) and covering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Dániel Marx , Michał Pilipczuk

Assume we are given a set of parallel line segments in the plane, and we wish to place a point on each line segment such that the resulting point set maximizes or minimizes the area of the largest or smallest triangle in the set. We analyze…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Vahideh Keikha , Maarten Löffler , Ali Mohades

In this paper we consider the Target Set Selection problem. The problem naturally arises in many fields like economy, sociology, medicine. In the Target Set Selection problem one is given a graph $G$ with a function $\operatorname{thr}:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Ivan Bliznets , Danil Sagunov

We give an attempt to build a classification of planar integral point sets. For two obtained classes, we provide general constructions of upper bounds for minimal diameter of integral point sets in higher dimensions of certain cardinality.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 N. N. Avdeev , R. E. Zvolinsky , E. A. Momot

In this paper, we derive a tight upper bound for the size of an intersecting $k$-Sperner family of subspaces of the $n$-dimensional vector space $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ over finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ which gives a $q$-analogue of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Jiuqiang Liu , Guihai Yu , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li

In the classical best approximation pair (BAP) problem, one is given two nonempty, closed, convex and disjoint subsets in a finite- or an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, and the goal is to find a pair of points, each from each subset,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Daniel Reem , Yair Censor

We consider the set multi-cover problem in geometric settings. Given a set of points P and a collection of geometric shapes (or sets) F, we wish to find a minimum cardinality subset of F such that each point p in P is covered by (contained…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-04 Chandra Chekuri , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Sariel Har-Peled

Ranking over sets arise when users choose between groups of items. For example, a group may be of those movies deemed $5$ stars to them, or a customized tour package. It turns out, to model this data type properly, we need to investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

For every pattern $P$, consisting of a finite set of points in the plane, $S_{P}(n,m)$ is defined as the largest number of similar copies of $P$ among sets of $n$ points in the plane without $m$ points on a line. A general construction,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-28 Bernardo M. Ábrego , Silvia Fernández-Merchant

Best subset selection in linear regression is well known to be nonconvex and computationally challenging to solve, as the number of possible subsets grows rapidly with increasing dimensionality of the problem. As a result, finding the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-01 Vikram Singh , Min Sun

The determination of $ES(7)$ is the first open case of the planar Erd\H{o}s--Szekeres problem, where the general conjecture predicts $ES(7)=33$. We present a SAT encoding for the 33-point case based on triple-orientation variables and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Bogdan Dumitru

The n-way number partitioning problem, a fundamental challenge in combinatorial optimization, has significant implications for applications such as fair division and machine scheduling. Despite these problems being NP-hard, many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Samuel Bismuth , Erel Segal-Halevi , Dana Shapira

If $s$ is a positive integer and $A$ is a set of positive integers, we say that $B$ is an $s$-divisor of $A$ if $\sum_{b\in B} b\mid s\sum_{a\in A} a$. We study the maximal number of $k$-subsets of an $n$-element set that can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Samuel Zbarsky

The problem of CSP sparsification asks: for a given CSP instance, what is the sparsest possible reweighting such that for every possible assignment to the instance, the number of satisfied constraints is preserved up to a factor of $1 \pm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Aaron Putterman

Since ancient times mathematicians consider geometrical objects with integral side lengths. We consider plane integral point sets $\mathcal{P}$, which are sets of $n$ points in the plane with pairwise integral distances where not all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Sascha Kurz , Alfred Wassermann