Publications related to Asymptotically Optimal Hardness for 𝑘-Set Packing and 𝑘-Matroid Intersection

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Results on Sparse Integer Programming and Geometric Independent Sets

An integer linear program is a problem of the form max{c^T x : Ax=b, x >= 0, x integer}, where A is in Z^(n x m), b in Z^m, and c in Z^n. Solving an integer linear program is NP-hard in general, but there are several assumptions for which it becomes fixed ...

EPFL2023

On improving the efficiency of modifier adaptation via directional information

Dominique Bonvin

In real-time optimization, the solution quality depends on the model ability to predict the plant KarushKuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. In the case of non-parametric plant-model mismatch, one can add input-affine modifiers to the model cost and constraints a ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Multi-Level Monte Carlo Methods for Uncertainty Quantification and Risk-Averse Optimisation

Sundar Subramaniam Ganesh

This work aims to study the effects of wind uncertainties in civil engineering structural design. Optimising the design of a structure for safety or operability without factoring in these uncertainties can result in a design that is not robust to these per ...

EPFL2022

Faster Monotone Min-Plus Product, Range Mode, and Single Source Replacement Paths

Adam Teodor Polak

One of the most basic graph problems, All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) is known to be solvable in n^{3-o(1)} time, and it is widely open whether it has an O(n^{3-ε}) time algorithm for ε > 0. To better understand APSP, one often strives to obtain subcubic t ...

Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik2021

Space Efficient Approximation to Maximum Matching Size from Uniform Edge Samples

Slobodan Mitrovic, Mikhail Kapralov, Ashkan Norouzi Fard, Jakab Tardos

Given a source of iid samples of edges of an input graph G with n vertices and m edges, how many samples does one need to compute a constant factor approximation to the maximum matching size in G? Moreover, is it possible to obtain such an estimate in a sm ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Optimal design methods applied to solar-assisted hydrothermal gasification plants

Alberto Mian

The gasification of highly watered waste residues may help to reduce fossil fuels consumption, as well as emissions, all the while improving efficiency. The integration of supercritical gasification with solar energy may improve the performances of both ne ...

EPFL2016

Strong LP formulations for scheduling splittable jobs on unrelated machines

Ola Nils Anders Svensson

A natural extension of the makespan minimization problem on unrelated machines is to allow jobs to be partially processed by different machines while incurring an arbitrary setup time. In this paper we present increasingly stronger LP-relaxations for this ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

A totally unimodular view of structured sparsity

Volkan Cevher, Marwa El Halabi

This paper describes a simple framework for structured sparse recovery based on convex optimization. We show that many interesting structured sparsity models can be naturally represented by linear matrix inequalities on the support of the unknown parameter ...

2015

Opaque Sets

János Pach

The problem of finding "small" sets that meet every straight-line which intersects a given convex region was initiated by Mazurkiewicz in 1916. We call such a set an opaque set or a barrier for that region. We consider the problem of computing the shortest ...

Springer2014

Modifier Adaptation for Constrained Closed-Loop Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Sean Costello

The steady advance of computational methods makes model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. An iterative optimization method called "modifier adaptation" ov ...

2014

Learning control Lyapunov function to ensure stability of dynamical system-based robot reaching motions

Aude Billard, Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh

We consider an imitation learning approach to model robot point-to-point (also known as discrete or reaching) movements with a set of autonomous Dynamical Systems (DS). Each DS model codes a behavior (such as reaching for a cup and swinging a golf club) at ...

Elsevier2014

A proximal Newton framework for composite minimization: Graph learning without Cholesky decompositions and matrix inversions

Volkan Cevher, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Quoc Tran Dinh

We propose an algorithmic framework for convex minimization problems of a composite function with two terms: a self-concordant function and a possibly nonsmooth regularization term. Our method is a new proximal Newton algorithm that features a local quadra ...

2013

Bin Packing via Discrepancy of Permutations

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Thomas Rothvoss, Doemoetoer Palvoelgyi

A well studied special case of bin packing is the 3-partition problem, where n items of size > 1/4 have to be packed in a minimum number of bins of capacity one. The famous Karmarkar-Karp algorithm transforms a fractional solution of a suitable LP relaxati ...

Siam, 3600 Univ City Science Center, Philadelphia, Pa 19104-2688 Usa2011

Reservoir Optimization in Recurrent Neural Networks using Kronecker Kernels

Martin Hasler, Mahdi Jalili, Ali Ajdari Rad

In this paper, using the mathematical properties of self-kronecker-production of small size random matrices, a simple but effective method is presented to optimize the reservoir of an echo state network given a certain task. The experimental results invest ...

IEEE2008

Numerical methods and models relevant to transportation applications

Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans

In this thesis, we focus on standard classes of problems in numerical optimization: unconstrained nonlinear optimization as well as systems of nonlinear equations. More precisely, we consider two types of unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. On t ...

EPFL2007

Variations of coloring problems related to scheduling and discrete tomography

Bernard Ries

The graph coloring problem is one of the most famous problems in graph theory and has a large range of applications. It consists in coloring the vertices of an undirected graph with a given number of colors such that two adjacent vertices get different col ...

EPFL2007

Decision-aid methodology for the school bus routing and scheduling problem

Michel Bierlaire, Thomas Liebling

We consider the school bus routing and scheduling problem, where transportation demand is known and bus scheduling can be planned in advance. We present a comprehensive methodology designed to support the decision of practitioners. We first propose a model ...

2005