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In this paper, we consider convex quadratic optimization problems with indicators on the continuous variables. In particular, we assume that the Hessian of the quadratic term is a Stieltjes matrix, which naturally appears in sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Peijing Liu , Alper Atamtürk , Andrés Gómez , Simge Küçükyavuz

Determinant maximization provides an elegant generalization of problems in many areas, including convex geometry, statistics, machine learning, fair allocation of goods, and network design. In an instance of the determinant maximization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Adam Brown , Aditi Laddha , Madhusudhan Pittu , Mohit Singh

Determinant maximization problem gives a general framework that models problems arising in as diverse fields as statistics \cite{pukelsheim2006optimal}, convex geometry \cite{Khachiyan1996}, fair allocations\linebreak \cite{anari2016nash},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Adam Brown , Aditi Laddha , Madhusudhan Pittu , Mohit Singh , Prasad Tetali

In multi-objective optimization, computing the entire non-dominated set (also known as the Pareto front or the Pareto frontier) is often intractable. However, for any multiplicative factor greater than one, an approximation set can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Levin Nemesch , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Alina Wittmann

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Inferring probabilistic networks from data is a notoriously difficult task. Under various goodness-of-fit measures, finding an optimal network is NP-hard, even if restricted to polytrees of bounded in-degree. Polynomial-time algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Serge Gaspers , Mikko Koivisto , Mathieu Liedloff , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

We introduce and study the problem of optimizing arbitrary functions over degree sequences of hypergraphs and multihypergraphs. We show that over multihypergraphs the problem can be solved in polynomial time. For hypergraphs, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Antoine Deza , Asaf Levin , Syed M. Meesum , Shmuel Onn

We address the problem of finding an optimal policy in a Markov decision process under a restricted policy class defined by the convex hull of a set of base policies. This problem is of great interest in applications in which a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Ershad Banijamali , Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Nikos Vlassis

We consider the problem of approximating the solution of variational problems subject to the constraint that the admissible functions must be convex. This problem is at the interface between convex analysis, convex optimization, variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Adam M. Oberman

We complete the complexity classification by degree of minimizing a polynomial over the integer points in a polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Previous work shows that optimizing a quadratic polynomial over the integer points in a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Alberto Del Pia , Robert Hildebrand , Robert Weismantel , Kevin Zemmer

We study a multi-period convex quadratic optimization problem, where the state evolves dynamically as an affine function of the state, control, and indicator variables in each period. We begin by projecting out the state variables using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jisun Lee , Andrés Gómez , Alper Atamtürk

The question if a given partial solution to a problem can be extended reasonably occurs in many algorithmic approaches for optimization problems. For instance, when enumerating minimal dominating sets of a graph $G=(V,E)$, one usually…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Katrin Casel , Henning Fernau , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jérôme Monnot , Florian Sikora

In the Inverse Matroid problem, we are given a matroid, a fixed basis $B$, and an initial weight function, and the goal is to minimally modify the weights -- measured by some function -- so that $B$ becomes a maximum-weight basis. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kristóf Bérczi , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , José Soto

In this paper, we introduce the problem of Matroid-Constrained Vertex Cover: given a graph with weights on the edges and a matroid imposed on the vertices, our problem is to choose a subset of vertices that is independent in the matroid,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph minimizing the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already for bipartite graphs when the functions are convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Gabriel Deza , Shmuel Onn

A parametrized convex function depends on a variable and a parameter, and is convex in the variable for any valid value of the parameter. Such functions can be used to specify parametrized convex optimization problems, i.e., a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Maximilian Schaller , Alberto Bemporad , Stephen Boyd

In this work, we study the problem of monotone non-submodular maximization with partition matroid constraint. Although a generalization of this problem has been studied in literature, our work focuses on leveraging properties of partition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Lan N. Nguyen , My T. Thai

Several fundamental problems that arise in optimization and computer science can be cast as follows: Given vectors $v_1,\ldots,v_m \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and a constraint family ${\cal B}\subseteq 2^{[m]}$, find a set $S \in \cal{B}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We study a specific convex maximization problem in n-dimensional space. The conjectured solution is proved to be a vertex of the polyhedral feasible region, but only a partial proof of local maximality is known. Integer sequences with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Steven Finch