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A list of complex numbers is realizable if it is the spectrum of a nonnegative matrix. In 1949 Suleimanova posed the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem (NIEP): the problem of determining which lists of complex numbers are realizable.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Alberto Borobia , Roberto Canogar

The problem of object restoration in the case of spatially incoherent illumination is considered. A regularized solution to the inverse problem is obtained through a probabilistic approach, and a numerical algorithm based on the statistical…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Enrico De Micheli , Giovanni Alberto Viano

The choice of the parameter value for regularized inverse problems is critical to the results and remains a topic of interest. This article explores a criterion for selecting a good parameter value by maximizing the probability of the data,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Toby Sanders , Rodrigo B. Platte , Robert D. Skeel

Positive linear programs (LP), also known as packing and covering linear programs, are an important class of problems that bridges computer science, operations research, and optimization. Despite the consistent efforts on this problem, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) denotes a powerful family of algorithms for recovering a reward function justifying the behavior demonstrated by an expert agent. A well-known limitation of IRL is the ambiguity in the choice of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alberto Maria Metelli , Filippo Lazzati , Marcello Restelli

In recent years, researchers have made significant progress in devising reinforcement-learning algorithms for optimizing linear temporal logic (LTL) objectives and LTL-like objectives. Despite these advancements, there are fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Cambridge Yang , Michael Littman , Michael Carbin

Kernelization is a theoretical formalization of efficient preprocessing for NP-hard problems. Empirically, preprocessing is highly successful in practice, for example in state-of-the-art ILP-solvers like CPLEX. Motivated by this, previous…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

Currently, the simplex method and the interior point method are indisputably the most popular algorithms for solving linear programs, LPs. Unlike general conic programs, LPs with a finite optimal value do not require strict feasibility in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Jiyoung Im , Henry Wolkowicz

The paper aims at the development of an apparatus for analysis and construction of near optimal solutions of singularly perturbed (SP) optimal controls problems (that is, problems of optimal control of SP systems) considered on the infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-20 Vladimir Gaitsgory , Sergei Rossomakhine

Most inverse optimization models impute unspecified parameters of an objective function to make an observed solution optimal for a given optimization problem with a fixed feasible set. We propose two approaches to impute unspecified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Neal Kaw

We investigate the complexity of bilevel combinatorial optimization with uncertainty in the follower's objective, in a robust optimization approach. We show that the robust counterpart of the bilevel problem under interval uncertainty can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Christoph Buchheim , Dorothee Henke , Felix Hommelsheim

Inverse optimization, determining parameters of an optimization problem that render a given solution optimal, has received increasing attention in recent years. While significant inverse optimization literature exists for convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Merve Bodur , Timothy C. Y. Chan , Ian Yihang Zhu

Projection algorithms are well known for their simplicity and flexibility in solving feasibility problems. They are particularly important in practice due to minimal requirements for software implementation and maintenance. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan

Interior point methods (IPMs) are a common approach for solving linear programs (LPs) with strong theoretical guarantees and solid empirical performance. The time complexity of these methods is dominated by the cost of solving a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Gregory Dexter , Agniva Chowdhury , Haim Avron , Petros Drineas

The article proposes an n-dimensional mathematical model of the visual representation of a linear programming problem. This model makes it possible to use artificial neural networks to solve multidimensional linear optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Nikolay A. Olkhovsky , Leonid B. Sokolinsky

A fundamental theorem of linear programming states that a feasible linear program is solvable if and only if its objective function is copositive with respect to the recession cone of its feasible set. This paper demonstrates that this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Vinh Nguyen

We propose a general framework for obtaining probabilistic solutions to PDE-based inverse problems. Bayesian methods are attractive for uncertainty quantification but assume knowledge of the likelihood model or data generation process. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-28 Youngsoo Baek , Wilkins Aquino , Sayan Mukherjee

The linear programming (LP) approach is, together with value iteration and policy iteration, one of the three fundamental methods to solve optimal control problems in a dynamic programming setting. Despite its simple formulation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Lucia Falconi , Andrea Martinelli , John Lygeros

In this work, we state a general conjecture on the solvability of optimization problems via algorithms with linear convergence guarantees. We make a first step towards examining its correctness by fully characterizing the problems that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Foivos Alimisis

We define and study the problem of predicting the solution to a linear program (LP) given only partial information about its objective and constraints. This generalizes the problem of learning to predict the purchasing behavior of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Shahin Jabbari , Ryan Rogers , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu