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Recently, a novel method based on coding partitions [1]-[4] has been used to derive power series expansions to previously intractable problems. In this method the coefficients at $k$ are determined by summing the contributions made by each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-23 Victor Kowalenko

We study linear bilevel programming problems whose lower-level objective is given by a random cost vector with known distribution. We consider the case where this distribution is nonatomic, allowing to reformulate the problem of the leader…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Gonzalo Muñoz , David Salas , Anton Svensson

A convex partition of a point set P in the plane is a planar partition of the convex hull of P with empty convex polygons or internal faces whose extreme points belong to P. In a convex partition, the union of the internal faces give the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hadrien Cambazard , Nicolas Catusse

The minimum common string partition problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in computational biology. In this work we propose the first integer linear programming model for solving this problem. Moreover,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Christian Blum , José A. Lozano , Pedro Pinacho Davidson

We introduce a new system of split variational inequality problems which is a natural extension of split variational inequality problem in semi-inner product spaces. We use the retraction technique to propose an iterative algorithm for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-20 K. R. Kazmi , Mohd Furkan

We describe an efficient quantum algorithm for solving the linear matrix equation AX+XB=C, where A, B, and C are given complex matrices and X is unknown. This is known as the Sylvester equation, a fundamental equation with applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Rolando D. Somma , Guang Hao Low , Dominic W. Berry , Ryan Babbush

In this paper we propose two proximal gradient algorithms for fractional programming problems in real Hilbert spaces, where the numerator is a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function and the denominator is a smooth function, either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

We consider convex-concave saddle-point problems where the objective functions may be split in many components, and extend recent stochastic variance reduction methods (such as SVRG or SAGA) to provide the first large-scale linearly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-04 P Balamurugan , Francis Bach

In this paper, we consider a bilevel polynomial optimization problem where the objective and the constraint functions of both the upper and the lower level problems are polynomials. We present methods for finding its global minimizers and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-14 V. Jeyakumar , J. B. Lasserre , G. Li , T. S. Pham

In many submodular optimization applications, datasets are naturally partitioned into disjoint subsets. These scenarios give rise to submodular optimization problems with partition-based constraints, where the desired solution set should be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenjing Chen , Yixin Chen , Victoria G. Crawford

We propose an algorithm for solving nonlinear convex programs defined in terms of a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix variable $X$. This algorithm rests on the factorization $X=Y Y^T$, where the number of columns of Y fixes the rank of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-25 M. Journée , F. Bach , P. -A. Absil , R. Sepulchre

The graph partitioning problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. In this paper, we formulate a 0-1 quadratic integer programming model for the graph partitioning problem with vertex weight constraints and fixed vertex constraints, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Wumwi Sun , Hongwei Liu , Xiaoyu Wang

We consider the solution of the Sylvester equation $AX+XB=C$ in mixed precision. We derive a new iterative refinement scheme to solve perturbed quasi-triangular Sylvester equations; our rounding error analysis provides sufficient conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Andrii Dmytryshyn , Massimiliano Fasi , Nicholas J. Higham , Xiaobo Liu

In this paper, we introduce a system of split variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces. Using projection method, we propose an iterative algorithm for the system of split variational inequality problems. Further, we prove that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Kaleem Raza Kazmi

The restricted partition function $p_N(n)$ counts the partitions of the integer $n$ into at most $N$ parts. In the nineteenth century Sylvester described these partitions as a sum of waves. We give detailed descriptions of these waves and,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Cormac O'Sullivan

An algorithm which computes a solution of a set optimization problem is provided. The graph of the objective map is assumed to be given by finitely many linear inequalities. A solution is understood to be a set of points in the domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Andreas Löhne , Carola Schrage

Prior to the parallel solution of a large linear system, it is required to perform a partitioning of its equations/unknowns. Standard partitioning algorithms are designed using the considerations of the efficiency of the parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Eugene Vecharynski , Yousef Saad , Masha Sosonkina

We consider a class of structured fractional minimization problems, in which the numerator part of the objective is the sum of a differentiable convex function and a convex non-smooth function, while the denominator part is a convex or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Ganzhao Yuan

In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Mario Souto , Joaquim D. Garcia , Alvaro Veiga

In 1882 J.J. Sylvester already proved, that the number of different ways to partition a positive integer into consecutive positive integers exactly equals the number of odd divisors of that integer (see [1]). We will now develop an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Kai Michael Renken