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Knapsack and Subset Sum are fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Recently there has been a growing interest in understanding the best possible pseudopolynomial running times for these problems with respect to various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Adam Polak , Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

The Knapsack Problem is a classic problem in combinatorial optimisation. Solving these problems may be computationally expensive. Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of deep learning methods to approximate the solutions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Mitchell Keegan , Mahdi Abolghasemi

We study the following multiagent variant of the knapsack problem. We are given a set of items, a set of voters, and a value of the budget; each item is endowed with a cost and each voter assigns to each item a certain value. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Till Fluschnik , Piotr Skowron , Mervin Triphaus , Kai Wilker

We consider the product knapsack problem, which is the variant of the classical 0-1 knapsack problem where the objective consists of maximizing the product of the profits of the selected items. These profits are allowed to be positive or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer , Clemens Thielen

We study the knapsack problem with group fairness constraints. The input of the problem consists of a knapsack of bounded capacity and a set of items, each item belongs to a particular category and has and associated weight and value. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Deval Patel , Arindam Khan , Anand Louis

We propose a method for finding approximate solutions to multiple-choice knapsack problems. To this aim we transform the multiple-choice knapsack problem into a bi-objective optimization problem whose solution set contains solutions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Janusz Miroforidis , Przemysław Pyzel

In the Knapsack problem, one is given the task of packing a knapsack of a given size with items in order to gain a packing with a high profit value. An important connection to the $(\max,+)$-convolution problem has been established, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Björn Schumacher

Many difficult computational problems involve the simultaneous satisfaction of multiple constraints which are individually easy to satisfy. Such problems occur in diffractive imaging, protein folding, constrained optimization (e.g., spin…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-10-01 Simon Gravel , Veit Elser

In the knapsack problems with neighborhood constraints that were studied before, the input is a graph $\mathcal{G}$ on a set $\mathcal{V}$ of items, each item $v \in \mathcal{V}$ has a weight $w_v$ and profit $p_v$, the size $s$ of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Palash Dey , Ashlesha Hota , Sudeshna Kolay

A variant of the classical knapsack problem is considered in which each item is associated with an integer weight and a qualitative level. We define a dominance relation over the feasible subsets of the given item set and show that this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Luca E. Schäfer , Tobias Dietz , Maria Barbati , José Rui Figueira , Salvatore Greco , Stefan Ruzika

The online knapsack problem is a classic problem in the field of online algorithms. Its canonical version asks how to pack items of different values and weights arriving online into a capacity-limited knapsack so as to maximize the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Adam Lechowicz , Rik Sengupta , Bo Sun , Shahin Kamali , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

The online knapsack problem is a classic online resource allocation problem in networking and operations research. Its basic version studies how to pack online arriving items of different sizes and values into a capacity-limited knapsack.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Bo Sun , Lin Yang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Danny H. K. Tsang

In the knapsack problem, we are given a knapsack of some capacity and a set of items, each with a size and a value. The goal is to pack a selection of these items fitting the knapsack that maximizes the total value. The online version of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Fabian Frei , Peter Rossmanith

When solving large-scale multiobjective optimization problems, solvers can get stuck with the memory or time limit. In such cases, one is left with no information how far is the best feasible solution, found before the optimization process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Ignacy Kaliszewski

The Sequential Multiple Knapsack Problem is a special case of Multiple knapsack problem in which the items sizes are divisible. A characterization of the optimal solutions of the problem and a description of the convex hull of all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Paolo Detti

We study a generalization of the knapsack problem with geometric and vector constraints. The input is a set of rectangular items, each with an associated profit and $d$ nonnegative weights ($d$-dimensional vector), and a square knapsack.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Arindam Khan , Eklavya Sharma , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We develop a novel mathematical programming approximation framework to tackle the stochastic knapsack problem. In this problem, the decision maker considers items for which either weights or values, or both, are random. The aim is to select…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Roberto Rossi , Steven D. Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

The 2024 edition of the CG:SHOP Challenge focused on the knapsack polygonal packing problem. Each instance consists of a convex polygon known as the container and a multiset of items, where each item is a simple polygon with an associated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guilherme D. da Fonseca , Yan Gerard

In this paper, we introduce online knapsack problems with a resource buffer. In the problems, we are given a knapsack with capacity $1$, a buffer with capacity $R\ge 1$, and items that arrive one by one. Each arriving item has to be taken…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Xin Han , Yasushi Kawase , Kazuhisa Makino , Haruki Yokomaku

The multiple knapsack problem with grouped items aims to maximize rewards by assigning groups of items among multiple knapsacks, considering knapsack capacities. Either all items in a group are assigned or none at all. We propose algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Francisco Castillo-Zunino , Pinar Keskinocak