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While uniform sampling has been widely studied in the matrix completion literature, CUR sampling approximates a low-rank matrix via row and column samples. Unfortunately, both sampling models lack flexibility for various circumstances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 HanQin Cai , Longxiu Huang , Pengyu Li , Deanna Needell

The 'exact subgraph' approach was recently introduced as a hierarchical scheme to get increasingly tight semidefinite programming relaxations of several NP-hard graph optimization problems. Solving these relaxations is a computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Elisabeth Gaar , Franz Rendl

Continuing results from JCDCGGG 2016 and 2017, we solve several new cases of the simple foldability problem -- deciding which crease patterns can be folded flat by a sequence of (some model of) simple folds. We give new efficient algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hugo Akitaya , Josh Brunner , Erik D. Demaine , Dylan Hendrickson , Victor Luo , Andy Tockman

Shape completion, the problem of inferring the complete geometry of an object given a partial point cloud, is an important problem in robotics and computer vision. This paper proposes the Graph Attention Shape Completion Network (GASCN), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Haojie Huang , Ziyi Yang , Robert Platt

Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is one of the 21 original NP--complete problems enumerated by Karp in 1972. In recent years a large number of exact methods to solve MCP have been appeared(Babel, Wood, Kumlander, Fahle, Li, Tomita and etc). Most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Nikolay Lavnikevich

The matching problem between two adjacency matrices can be formulated as the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Previous work on semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations to the QAP have produced solutions that are often tight in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Jose F. S. Bravo Ferreira , Yuehaw Khoo , Amit Singer

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

The Fewest Clues Problem (FCP) framework has been introduced to study the complexity of determining whether a solution to an \NP~problem can be uniquely identified by specifying a subset of the certificate. For a given problem $P \in \NP$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Atsuki Nagao , Mei Sekiguchi

Given a $k$-uniform hyper-graph, the E$k$-Vertex-Cover problem is to find the smallest subset of vertices that intersects every hyper-edge. We present a new multilayered PCP construction that extends the Raz verifier. This enables us to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Irit Dinur , Venkatesan Guruswami , Subhash Khot , Oded Regev

Octilinear graph drawings are a standard paradigm extending the orthogonal graph drawing style by two additional slopes (+1 and -1). We are interested in two constrained drawing problems where the input specifies a so-called representation,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Henry Förster , Giacomo Ortali , Lena Schlip

This paper formulates a necessary and sufficient condition for a generic graph matching problem to be equivalent to the maximum vertex and edge weight clique problem in a derived association graph. The consequences of this results are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-24 Brijnesh Jain , Klaus Obermayer

The linear complementarity problem is a continuous optimization problem that generalizes convex quadratic programming, Nash equilibria of bimatrix games and several such problems. This paper presents a continuous optimization formulation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Parthe Pandit , Ankur A. Kulkarni

We study the Task Completion problem, in which $M$ abstract tasks must be completed by a network of $n$ crash-prone nodes, where up to $\alpha n$ nodes may crash for some constant $\alpha<1$. Our main result is a deterministic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Orr Fischer , Ran Gelles

The website reductions.network serves as a comprehensive database for exploring problems and reductions between them. It presents several complexity classes in the form of an interconnected graph where problems are represented as vertices,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Christoph Grüne , Femke Pfaue

Motivated by the inapproximability of reconfiguration problems, we present a new PCP-type characterization of PSPACE, which we call a probabilistically checkable reconfiguration proof (PCRP): Any PSPACE computation can be encoded into an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Shuichi Hirahara , Naoto Ohsaka

In this work we investigate the complexity of some problems related to the {\em Simultaneous Embedding with Fixed Edges} (SEFE) of $k$ planar graphs and the PARTITIONED $k$-PAGE BOOK EMBEDDING (PBE-$k$) problems, which are known to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Patrizio Angelini , Giordano Da Lozzo , Daniel Neuwirth

Neurosymbolic systems can satisfy logical constraints during learning without achieving the intended concept-label correspondence; this is a problem known as reasoning shortcuts. We formalize reasoning shortcuts as a constraint satisfaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue , Masaaki Nishino

Conformal prediction (CP) is a framework to quantify uncertainty of machine learning classifiers including deep neural networks. Given a testing example and a trained classifier, CP produces a prediction set of candidate labels with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Subhankar Ghosh , Yuanjie Shi , Taha Belkhouja , Yan Yan , Jana Doppa , Brian Jones

Can we efficiently compute optimal solutions to instances of a hard problem from optimal solutions to neighboring (i.e., locally modified) instances? For example, can we efficiently compute an optimal coloring for a graph from optimal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Elisabet Burjons , Fabian Frei , Edith Hemaspaandra , Dennis Komm , David Wehner

In this short note, we show two NP-completeness results regarding the \emph{simultaneous representation problem}, introduced by Lubiw and Jampani. The simultaneous representation problem for a given class of intersection graphs asks if some…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Jan Bok , Nikola Jedličková