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We present a new flow-based formulation for identical parallel machine scheduling with a regular objective function and without idle time. The formulation is constructed with the help of a decision diagram that represents all job sequences…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Daniel Kowalczyk , Roel Leus , Christopher Hojny , Stefan Røpke

We present and study a new model for energy-aware and profit-oriented scheduling on a single processor. The processor features dynamic speed scaling as well as suspension to a sleep mode. Jobs arrive over time, are preemptable, and have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Peter Kling , Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn

Traditional lock-free parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, such as shortest paths, stable matching, and job scheduling require programmers to write problem-specific routines and synchronization code. We propose a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 David Ribeiro Alves , Vijay K. Garg

The Practimum-Optimum (P-O) algorithm represents a paradigm shift in developing automatic optimization products for complex real-life business problems such as large-scale manufacturing scheduling. It leverages deep business domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Moshe BenBassat

Optimization is an important module of modern machine learning applications. Tremendous efforts have been made to accelerate optimization algorithms. A common formulation is achieving a lower loss at a given time. This enables a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhonglin Xie , Yiman Fong , Haoran Yuan , Zaiwen Wen

We propose new methods to speed up convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), a common optimization tool in the context of large scale and distributed learning. The proposed method accelerates the speed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Changkyu Song , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic

Spaced repetition systems are fundamental to efficient learning and memory retention, but existing algorithms often struggle with semantic interference and personalized adaptation. We present LECTOR (\textbf{L}LM-\textbf{E}nhanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiahao Zhao

The high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) motivate methods that reduce parameter count and accelerate inference. In response, model pruning emerges as an effective strategy, yet current methods typically focus on a…

In malleable job scheduling, jobs can be executed simultaneously on multiple machines with the processing time depending on the number of allocated machines. In this setting, jobs are required to be executed non-preemptively and in unison,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Dimitris Fotakis , Jannik Matuschke , Orestis Papadigenopoulos

This work studies the linear convergence of an accelerated scheme of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth problems. We use the methodology of expressing the accelerated ADMM as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Meisam Tavakoli , Fabian Jakob , Guido Carnevale , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrea Iannelli

This paper studies a 2-class, 2-server parallel server system under the recently introduced extended heavy traffic condition, which states that the underlying 'static allocation' linear program (LP) is critical, but does not require that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Rami Atar , Eyal Castiel , Marty Reiman

We consider the problem of designing codes with flexible rate (referred to as rateless codes), for private distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ and hires worker…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We are given a set of $n$ jobs that have to be executed on a set of $m$ speed-scalable machines that can vary their speeds dynamically using the energy model introduced in [Yao et al., FOCS'95]. Every job $j$ is characterized by its release…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Vincent Chau , Nguyen Kim Thang

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines minimizing the total completion time, with each job using exactly one resource. First, we derive fundamental properties of the problem and show that the problem is polynomially…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 T. Janssen , C. Swennenhuis , A. Bitar , T. Bosman , D. Gijswijt , L. van Iersel , S. Dauzére-Pérès , C. Yugma

It has been verified that the linear programming (LP) is able to formulate many real-life optimization problems, which can obtain the optimum by resorting to corresponding solvers such as OptVerse, Gurobi and CPLEX. In the past decades, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Xijun Li , Qingyu Qu , Fangzhou Zhu , Jia Zeng , Mingxuan Yuan , Kun Mao , Jie Wang

This paper considers online optimization for a system that performs a sequence of back-to-back tasks. Each task can be processed in one of multiple processing modes that affect the duration of the task, the reward earned, and an additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Michael J. Neely

Loop transformations are semantics-preserving optimization techniques, widely used to maximize objectives such as parallelism. Despite decades of research, applying the optimal composition of loop transformations remains challenging due to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yijie Zhi , Yayu Cao , Jianhua Dai , Xiaoyang Han , Jingwen Pu , Qingran Wu , Sheng Cheng , Ming Cai

Large language models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to prompts, but most automatic prompt optimization (APO) methods assume access to ground-truth references (e.g., labeled validation data) that are costly to obtain. We propose the Prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yuanchen Wu , Saurabh Verma , Justin Lee , Fangzhou Xiong , Poppy Zhang , Amel Awadelkarim , Xu Chen , Yubai Yuan , Shawndra Hill

This paper presents a linear programming approach for the optimal control of nonlinear switched systems where the control is the switching sequence. This is done by introducing modal occupation measures, which allow to relax the problem as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Mathieu Claeys , Jamal Daafouz , Didier Henrion

In this work we study the problem of scheduling tasks with dependencies in multiprocessor architectures where processors have different speeds. We present the preemptive algorithm "Save-Energy" that given a schedule of tasks it post…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-06-09 Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Georgios Giannoulis , Paul G. Spirakis