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Rank regularized minimization problem is an ideal model for the low-rank matrix completion/recovery problem. The matrix factorization approach can transform the high-dimensional rank regularized problem to a low-dimensional factorized…

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Finding a minimum spanning tree (MST) for $n$ points in an arbitrary metric space is a fundamental primitive for hierarchical clustering and many other ML tasks, but this takes $\Omega(n^2)$ time to even approximate. We introduce a…

Integer Linear Programming with $n$ binary variables and $m$ many $0/1$-constraints can be solved in time $2^{\tilde O(m^2)} \text{poly}(n)$ and it is open whether the dependence on $m$ is optimal. Several seemingly unrelated problems,…

A prototypical graph problem is centered around a graph-theoretic property for a set of vertices and a solution to it is a set of vertices for which the desired property holds. The task is to decide whether, in the given graph, there exists…

We completely classify all minimal problems for Structure-from-Motion (SfM) where arrangements of points and lines are fully observed by multiple uncalibrated pinhole cameras. We find 291 minimal problems, 73 of which have unique solutions…

A long-standing open question in Integer Programming is whether integer programs with constraint matrices with bounded subdeterminants are efficiently solvable. An important special case thereof are congruency-constrained integer programs…

This paper introduces the \emph{$d$-distance matching problem}, in which we are given a bipartite graph $G=(S,T;E)$ with $S=\{s_1,\dots,s_n\}$, a weight function on the edges and an integer $d\in\mathbb Z_+$. The goal is to find a maximum…

Motivated by the FPTAS for connectivity interdiction of Huang et al. (IPCO'24), we isolate the part of the argument that does not use cuts. The setting is a minimization problem over a feasible-set family $\mathcal F$ with a linear…

We consider the capacitated clustering problem in general metric spaces where the goal is to identify $k$ clusters and minimize the sum of the radii of the clusters (we call this the Capacitated-$k$-sumRadii problem). We are interested in…

We address the problem of minimal actuator placement in linear systems so that the volume of the set of states reachable with one unit or less of input energy is lower bounded by a desired value. First, following the recent work of…

In this paper, we prove that sufficiently regular solutions of any quasilinear PDE can be approximated by solutions of systems of N distinguishable particles, to within 1/ ln(N ). This intruiguing result is related to recent developments in…

Let a polytope $P$ be defined by a system $A x \leq b$. We consider the problem of counting the number of integer points inside $P$, assuming that $P$ is $\Delta$-modular, where the polytope $P$ is called $\Delta$-modular if all the rank…

In prior work, we showed that subsets of $\mathbb{F}_{p}^{n}$ of $\mathrm{VC_{2}}$-dimension at most $k$ are well approximated by a union of atoms of a quadratic factor of complexity $(\ell,q)$, where the complexity $\ell$ of the linear…

This paper presents a theoretical discussion on Ruttan's optimality conditions for rational minimax approximations in discrete and continuum settings, integrating analytical foundations with computational practice. We develop extended…

We prove a PCP theorem for the existential theory of the reals, showing that MAX-ETR-INV is $\exists\mathbb{R}$-hard to approximate to within some constant factor. The existential theory of the reals (ETR) is a decision problem asking if…

The linearly constrained matrix rank minimization problem is widely applicable in many fields such as control, signal processing and system identification. The tightest convex relaxation of this problem is the linearly constrained nuclear…

Let $f:2^{E} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_+$ be a submodular function on a ground set $E = [n]$, and let $P(f)$ denote its extended polymatroid. Given a direction $d \in \mathbb{Z}^n$ with at least one positive entry, the line search problem is…

Computing planar orthogonal drawings with the minimum number of bends is one of the most relevant topics in Graph Drawing. The problem is known to be NP-hard, even when we want to test the existence of a rectilinear planar drawing, i.e., an…

This paper considers a natural fault-tolerant shortest paths problem: for some constant integer $f$, given a directed weighted graph with no negative cycles and two fixed vertices $s$ and $t$, compute (either explicitly or implicitly) for…