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We consider exact algorithms for Subset Balancing, a family of related problems that generalizes Subset Sum, Partition, and Equal Subset Sum. Specifically, given as input an integer vector $\vec{x} \in \mathbb{Z}^n$ and a constant-size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tim Randolph , Karol Węgrzycki

The efficiency of exact subset sum problem algorithms which compute individual subset sums is defined as $e=min(T/z, 1)$, where $z$ is the number of subset sums computed. $e$ is related to these algorithms' computational complexity. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nick Dawes

Consider the classical Min-Sum Set Cover problem: We are given a universe $\mathcal{U}$ of $n$ elements and a collection $\mathcal{S}$ of $k$ subsets of $\mathcal{U}$. Moreover, a cost function is associated with each set. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Michał Szyfelbein

In the classical Subset Sum problem we are given a set $X$ and a target $t$, and the task is to decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ which sums to $t$. A recent line of research has resulted in $\tilde{O}(t)$-time algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

We provide improved upper and lower bounds for the Min-Sum-Radii (MSR) and Min-Sum-Diameters (MSD) clustering problems with a bounded number of clusters $k$. In particular, we propose an exact MSD algorithm with running-time $n^{O(k)}$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Sandip Banerjee , Yair Bartal , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Alon Hovav

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

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

The subset sum problem is one of the simplest and most fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. We consider two extensions of this problem: The subset sum problem with digraph constraint (SSG) and subset sum problem with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University. In this work we introduce several new optimisation methods for problems in machine learning. Our algorithms broadly fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Aaron Defazio

The subset sum problem, also referred as SSP, is a NP-Hard computational problem. SSP has its applications in broad domains like cryptography, number theory, operation research and complexity theory. The most famous algorithm for solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Avni Verma , Kamalakar Karlapalem

We consider the canonical Subset Sum problem: given a list of positive integers $a_1,\ldots,a_n$ and a target integer $t$ with $t > a_i$ for all $i$, determine if there is an $S \subseteq [n]$ such that $\sum_{i \in S} a_i = t$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ce Jin , Nikhil Vyas , Ryan Williams

The subset sum algorithm is a natural heuristic for the classical Bin Packing problem: In each iteration, the algorithm finds among the unpacked items, a maximum size set of items that fits into a new bin. More than 35 years after its first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-27 Leah Epstein , Elena Kleiman , Julian Mestre

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

In the last twenty-five years (1990-2014), algorithmic advances in integer optimization combined with hardware improvements have resulted in an astonishing 200 billion factor speedup in solving Mixed Integer Optimization (MIO) problems. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Angela King , Rahul Mazumder

In the subset sum problem we are given n positive integers along with a target integer t. A solution is a subset of these integers summing to t. In this short note we show that for a given subset sum instance there is a proof of size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Jesper Nederlof

We present space efficient Monte Carlo algorithms that solve Subset Sum and Knapsack instances with $n$ items using $O^*(2^{0.86n})$ time and polynomial space, where the $O^*(\cdot)$ notation suppresses factors polynomial in the input size.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Nikhil Bansal , Shashwat Garg , Jesper Nederlof , Nikhil Vyas

Existence of long arithmetic progression in sumsets and subset sums has been studied extensively in the field of additive combinatorics. These additive combinatorics results play a central role in the recent progress of fundamental problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Lin Chen , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

We study the online variant of the Min-Sum Set Cover (MSSC) problem, a generalization of the well-known list update problem. In the MSSC problem, an algorithm has to maintain the time-varying permutation of the list of $n$ elements, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Mateusz Basiak , Marcin Bienkowski , Agnieszka Tatarczuk

This paper studies chance-constrained stochastic optimization problems with finite support. It presents an iterative method that solves reduced-size chance-constrained models obtained by partitioning the scenario set. Each reduced problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Marius Roland , Alexandre Forel , Thibaut Vidal

We investigate the question whether Subset Sum can be solved by a polynomial-time algorithm with access to a certificate of length poly(k) where k is the maximal number of bits in an input number. In other words, can it be solved using only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Michał Włodarczyk