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When uncertainty meets costly information gathering, a fundamental question emerges: which data points should we probe to unlock near-optimal solutions? Sparsification of stochastic packing problems addresses this trade-off. The existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shaddin Dughmi , Yusuf Hakan Kalayci , Xinyu Liu

We introduce a new algorithm for finding stable matchings in multi-sided matching markets. Our setting is motivated by a PhD market of students, advisors, and co-advisors, and can be generalized to supply chain networks viewed as $n$-sided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Maximilian Mordig , Riccardo Della Vecchia , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Bernhard Schölkopf

The Stable Marriage Problem is to find a one-to-one matching for two equally sized sets of agents. Due to its widespread applications in the real world, especially the unique importance to the centralized match maker, a very large number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-26 Gui-Yuan Shi , Yi-Xiu Kong , Bo-Lun Chen , Guang-Hui Yuan , Rui-Jie Wu

The Euclidean k-means problem is arguably the most widely-studied clustering problem in machine learning. While the k-means objective is NP-hard in the worst-case, practitioners have enjoyed remarkable success in applying heuristics like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Abhratanu Dutta , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan , Alex Wang

We consider a many-to-one variant of the stable matching problem. More concretely, we consider the variant of the stable matching problem where one side has a matroid constraint. Furthermore, we consider the situation where the preference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Naoyuki Kamiyama

This paper proposes a novel iterative algorithm to compute the stabilizing solution of regime-switching stochastic game-theoretic Riccati differential equations with periodic coefficients. The method decomposes the original complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yiyuan Wang

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework and a suite of highly efficient, parallelizable algorithms for solving the large-scale multicommodity flow (MCF) feasibility problem. We reframe the classical constraint-satisfaction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Pengfei Liu

In this paper, we extend the previous method for solving inverse problems for steady-state equations using the Generalized Collage Theorem by searching for an approximation that not only minimizes the collage error but also maximizes the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Herb Kunze , Davide La Torre

In order to formulate mathematical conjectures likely to be true, a number of base cases must be determined. However, many combinatorial problems are NP-hard and the computational complexity makes this research approach difficult using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Victoria Horan , Steve Adachi , Stanley Bak

We show that under mild assumptions for a problem whose solutions admit a dynamic programming-like recurrence relation, we can still find a solution under additional packing constraints, which need to be satisfied approximately. The number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Etienne Bamas , Shi Li , Lars Rohwedder

The stable matching problem is one of the central problems of algorithmic game theory. If participants are allowed to have ties, the problem of finding a stable matching of maximum cardinality is an NP-hard problem, even when the ties are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Robert Chiang , Kanstantsin Pashkovich

In this paper we consider the coupled task scheduling problem with exact delay times on a single machine with the objective of minimizing the total completion time of the jobs. We provide constant-factor approximation algorithms for several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 David Fischer , Péter Györgyi

Iterative sketching and sketch-and-precondition are randomized algorithms used for solving overdetermined linear least-squares problems. When implemented in exact arithmetic, these algorithms produce high-accuracy solutions to least-squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Ethan N. Epperly

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). For an instance $I$ of SMI there may be many stable matchings, providing significantly different outcomes for the sets of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

The stable roommates problem with $n$ agents has worst case complexity $O(n^2)$ in time and space. Random instances can be solved faster and with less memory, however. We introduce an algorithm that has average time and space complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Stephan Mertens

We investigate the complexity of solving stable or perturbation-resilient instances of $k$-Means and $k$-Median clustering in fixed dimension Euclidean metrics (more generally doubling metrics). The notion of stable (perturbation resilient)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zachary Friggstad , Kamyar Khodamoradi , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

This work presents a novel stabilization strategy for the Galerkin formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, developed to achieve high accuracy while ensuring convergence and compatibility with high-order elements on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Antonio Blanco-Casares , Vishal Kumar , Daniel Mira , Oriol Lehmkuhl

Optimization problems are ubiquitous in our societies and are present in almost every segment of the economy. Most of these optimization problems are NP-hard and computationally demanding, often requiring approximate solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 James Kotary , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this article we consider a certain sub class of Integer Equal Flow problem, which are known NP hard [8]. Currently there exist no direct solutions for the same. It is a common problem in various inventory management systems. Here we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Sasikanth Goteti , Swapnil Kumar

In this work, we present a new iterative exact solution algorithm for the weighted fair sequences problem, which is a recently introduced NP-hard sequencing problem with applications in diverse areas such as TV advertisement scheduling,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Markus Sinnl