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This paper draws on diverse areas of computer science to develop a unified view of computation: (1) Optimization in operations research, where a numerical objective function is maximized under constraints, is generalized from the numerical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-11 A. Nait Abdallah , M. H. van Emden

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

We study the susceptibility propagation, a message-passing algorithm to compute correlation functions. It is applied to constraint satisfaction problems and its accuracy is examined. As a heuristic method to find a satisfying assignment, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-07-29 Saburo Higuchi , Marc Mézard

An iterative optimization approach that simultaneously minimizes the energy and optimizes the Lagrange multipliers enforcing desired constraints is presented. The method is tested on previously established benchmark systems and it is proved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Kidd , A. S. Umar , K. Varga

Recent progress in deep learning has been driven by increasingly larger models. However, their computational and energy demands have grown proportionally, creating significant barriers to their deployment and to a wider adoption of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pedro Savarese

Practical modifications of deterministic multigrid and conventional relaxation algorithms are discussed. New parameters need not be tuned but are determined by the algorithms themselves. One modification can be thought of as ``updating on a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Thomas Kalkreuter

We show how multiplexing influences propagating fronts in multilayer networks of coupled bistable oscillators. Using numerical simulation, we investigate both deterministic and noise-sustained propagation. In particular, we demonstrate that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-06-28 Vladimir V. Semenov , Sarika Jalan , Anna Zakharova

When implementing a propagator for a constraint, one must decide about variants: When implementing min, should one also implement max? Should one implement linear equations both with and without coefficients? Constraint variants are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Christian Schulte , Guido Tack

This paper extends algorithms that remove the fixed point bias of decentralized gradient descent to solve the more general problem of distributed optimization over subspace constraints. Leveraging the integral quadratic constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Dennis J. Marquis , Dany Abou Jaoude , Mazen Farhood , Craig A. Woolsey

We show that global constraints on finite domains like all-different can be reformulated into answer set programs on which we achieve arc, bound or range consistency. These reformulations offer a number of other advantages beyond providing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-31 Christian Drescher , Toby Walsh

Influence propagation has been the subject of extensive study due to its important role in social networks, epidemiology, and many other areas. Understanding propagation mechanisms is critical to control the spread of fake news or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Vinicius Ferreira , Artur Pessoa , Thibaut Vidal

This paper presents the integration of constraint propagation and dual proof analysis in an exact, roundoff-error-free MIP solver. The authors employ safe rounding methods to ensure that all results remain provably correct, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Sander Borst , Leon Eifler , Ambros Gleixner

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant promise in various generative tasks; however, they often struggle to satisfy challenging constraints. Our approach addresses this limitation by rethinking training-free loss-guided diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 William Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Tom Van Wouwe , C. Karen Liu

The past decade has witnessed substantial developments in string solving. Motivated by the complexity of string solving strategies adopted in existing string solvers, we investigate a simple and generic method for solving string…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Matthew Hague , Artur Jeż , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Philipp Rümmer

In this paper, we propose a new language, called AR ({\it Action Rules}), and describe how various propagators for finite-domain constraints can be implemented in it. An action rule specifies a pattern for agents, an action that the agents…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Neng-Fa Zhou

We propose and study a new class of gradient communication mechanisms for communication-efficient training -- three point compressors (3PC) -- as well as efficient distributed nonconvex optimization algorithms that can take advantage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Peter Richtárik , Igor Sokolov , Ilyas Fatkhullin , Elnur Gasanov , Zhize Li , Eduard Gorbunov

Recently, the method that learns networks layer by layer has attracted increasing interest for its ease of analysis. For the method, the main challenge lies in deriving an optimization target for each layer by inversely propagating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Weizhi Lu , Mingrui Chen , Kai Guo , Weiyu Li

Programs with constraints are hard to debug. In this paper, we describe a general architecture to help develop new debugging tools for constraint programming. The possible tools are fed by a single general-purpose tracer. A tracer-driver is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ludovic Langevine , Mireille Ducasse

Time distributed optimization is an implementation strategy that can significantly reduce the computational burden of model predictive control by exploiting its robustness to incomplete optimization. When using this strategy, optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Marco Nicotra , Ilya Kolmanovsky