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Halfspace (or Tukey) depth is a fundamental and robust measure of centrality of data points in multivariate datasets. Computing the depth of a point with respect to the uniform distribution on an open convex body in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a…

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In this paper, we present a significant improvement of Quick Hypervolume algorithm, one of the state-of-the-art algorithms for calculating exact hypervolume of the space dominated by a set of d-dimensional points. This value is often used…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Andrzej Jaszkiewicz

We classify, according to their computational complexity, integer optimization problems whose constraints and objective functions are polynomials with integer coefficients and the number of variables is fixed. For the optimization of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Robert Weismantel

A wide range of fundamental machine learning tasks that are addressed by the maximum a posteriori estimation can be reduced to a general minimum conical hull problem. The best-known solution to tackle general minimum conical hull problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

We present a short step interior point method for solving a class of nonlinear programming problems with quadratic objective function. Convex quadratic programming problems can be reformulated as problems in this class. The method is shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Martin Neuenhofen , Stefania Bellavia

We consider space-bounded computations on a random-access machine (RAM) where the input is given on a read-only random-access medium, the output is to be produced to a write-only sequential-access medium, and the available workspace allows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Omar Darwish , Amr Elmasry , Jyrki Katajainen

First, we study geometric variants of the standard set cover motivated by assignment of directional antenna and shipping with deadlines, providing the first known polynomial-time exact solutions. Next, we consider the following general…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Piotr Berman , Marek Karpinski , Andrzej Lingas

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For a given positive integer $w<n$, our objective is to find a set $C \subset P$ of points, such that $CH(P\setminus C)$ has the smallest number of vertices and $C$ has at most $n-w$ points.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Vahideh Keikha

This paper provides full \Matlab-code and informal correctness proofs for the lexicographic reverse search algorithm for convex hull calculations. The implementation was tested on a 1993 486-PC for various small and some larger, partially…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Alexander Kovačec , Bernardete Ribeiro

Many problems are NP-hard and, unless P = NP, do not admit polynomial-time exact algorithms. The fastest known exact algorithms exactly usually take time exponential in the input size. Much research effort has gone into obtaining faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Stefan Kratsch , Pascal Kunz

We present a real-time algorithm that finds the Penetration Depth (PD) between general polygonal models based on iterative and local optimization techniques. Given an in-collision configuration of an object in configuration space, we find…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Changsoo Je , Min Tang , Youngeun Lee , Minkyoung Lee , Young J. Kim

Recent focus on robustness to adversarial attacks for deep neural networks produced a large variety of algorithms for training robust models. Most of the effective algorithms involve solving the min-max optimization problem for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yasaman Esfandiari , Aditya Balu , Keivan Ebrahimi , Umesh Vaidya , Nicola Elia , Soumik Sarkar

We compute the volumes of convex bodies that are given by inequalities of concave polynomials. These volumes are found to arbitrary precision thanks to the representation of periods by linear differential equations. Our approach rests on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Lakshmi Ramesh , Nicolas Weiss

We consider the quadratic optimization problem $\max_{x \in C}\ x^T Q x + q^T x$, where $C\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ is a box and $r := \mathrm{rank}(Q)$ is assumed to be $\mathcal{O}(1)$ (i.e., fixed). We show that this case can be solved in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Milan Hladík , Michal Černý , Miroslav Rada

We establish the optimal nonergodic sublinear convergence rate of the proximal point algorithm for maximal monotone inclusion problems. First, the optimal bound is formulated by the performance estimation framework, resulting in an infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

This article discusses the problem of determining whether a given point, or set of points, lies within the convex hull of another set of points in $d$ dimensions. This problem arises naturally in a statistical context when using a…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-30 Pavel N. Krivitsky , Alina R. Kuvelkar , David R. Hunter

Nonconvex optimization problems with an L1-constraint are ubiquitous, and are found in many application domains including: optimal control of hybrid systems, machine learning and statistics, and operations research. This paper shows that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Yonatan Mintz , Anil Aswani

We propose a nonconvex estimator for joint multivariate regression and precision matrix estimation in the high dimensional regime, under sparsity constraints. A gradient descent algorithm with hard thresholding is developed to solve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Jinghui Chen , Quanquan Gu

We study the problem of computing the \textsc{Maxima} of a set of $n$ $d$-dimensional points. For dimensions 2 and 3, there are algorithms to solve the problem with order-oblivious instance-optimal running time. However, in higher…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Jérémy Barbay , Javiel Rojas

Our contribution in this paper is two folded. We consider first the case of linear programming with real coefficients and give a method which allows the computation of a new upper bound on the distance from the origin to a feasible point.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Beniamin Costandin , Marius Costandin , Petru Dobra