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Tight lower bounds for block-structured integer programs. 块结构整数程序的紧下界。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02296-z
Christoph Hunkenschröder, Kim-Manuel Klein, Martin Koutecký, Alexandra Lassota, Asaf Levin
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An FPTAS for Connectivity Interdiction. 连接阻断的FPTAS。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02312-2
Chien-Chung Huang, Nidia Obscura Acosta, Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai
{"title":"An FPTAS for Connectivity Interdiction.","authors":"Chien-Chung Huang, Nidia Obscura Acosta, Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai","doi":"10.1007/s10107-025-02312-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-025-02312-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the connectivity interdiction problem, we are asked to find a global graph cut and remove a subset of edges under a budget constraint, so that the total weight of the remaining edges in this cut is minimized. This problem easily includes the knapsack problem as a special case, hence it is NP-hard. For this problem, Zenklusen [Zenklusen'14] designed a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) and exact algorithms for the special case of unit edge costs. He posed the question of whether a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) is possible for the general case. We give an affirmative answer. For the special case of unit edge costs, we also give faster exact and approximation algorithms. Our main technical contribution is to establish a connection with an intermediate graph cut problem, called the <i>normalized</i> min-cut, which, roughly speaking, penalizes the edge weights of the remaining edges more severely, when more edges are taken out for free.</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"216 1-2","pages":"605-626"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13124762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147817171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A first order method for linear programming parameterized by circuit imbalance. 电路不平衡参数化线性规划的一阶方法。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02264-7
Richard Cole, Christoph Hertrich, Yixin Tao, László A Végh
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Accelerated first-order optimization under nonlinear constraints. 非线性约束下的一阶加速优化。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02224-1
Michael Muehlebach, Michael I Jordan
{"title":"Accelerated first-order optimization under nonlinear constraints.","authors":"Michael Muehlebach, Michael I Jordan","doi":"10.1007/s10107-025-02224-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10107-025-02224-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We exploit analogies between first-order algorithms for constrained optimization and non-smooth dynamical systems to design a new class of accelerated first-order algorithms for constrained optimization. Unlike Frank-Wolfe or projected gradients, these algorithms avoid optimization over the entire feasible set at each iteration. We prove convergence to stationary points even in a nonconvex setting and we derive accelerated rates for the convex setting both in continuous time, as well as in discrete time. An important property of these algorithms is that constraints are expressed in terms of velocities instead of positions, which naturally leads to sparse, local and convex approximations of the feasible set (even if the feasible set is nonconvex). Thus, the complexity tends to grow mildly in the number of decision variables and in the number of constraints, which makes the algorithms suitable for machine learning applications. We apply our algorithms to a compressed sensing and a sparse regression problem, showing that we can treat nonconvex <math><msup><mi>ℓ</mi> <mi>p</mi></msup> </math> constraints ( <math><mrow><mi>p</mi> <mo><</mo> <mn>1</mn></mrow> </math> ) efficiently, while recovering state-of-the-art performance for <math><mrow><mi>p</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>1</mn></mrow> </math> .</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"215 1-2","pages":"407-452"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12790563/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145959590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 4 3 -approximation for the maximum leaf spanning arborescence problem in DAGs. dag中最大叶跨越乔木问题的43 - 3近似。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02233-0
Meike Neuwohner
{"title":"<ArticleTitle xmlns:ns0=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\">A <ns0:math> <ns0:mrow><ns0:mfrac><ns0:mn>4</ns0:mn> <ns0:mn>3</ns0:mn></ns0:mfrac> </ns0:mrow> </ns0:math> -approximation for the maximum leaf spanning arborescence problem in DAGs.","authors":"Meike Neuwohner","doi":"10.1007/s10107-025-02233-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-025-02233-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Maximum Leaf Spanning Arborescence problem (MLSA) in directed acyclic graphs (dags) is defined as follows: Given a directed acyclic graph <i>G</i> and a vertex <math><mrow><mi>r</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <mi>V</mi> <mo>(</mo> <mi>G</mi> <mo>)</mo></mrow> </math> from which every other vertex is reachable, find a spanning arborescence rooted at <i>r</i> maximizing the number of leaves (vertices with out-degree zero). The MLSA in dags is known to be APX-hard as reported by Nadine Schwartges, Spoerhase, and Wolff (Approximation and Online Algorithms, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2012) and the best known approximation guarantee of <math><mfrac><mn>7</mn> <mn>5</mn></mfrac> </math> is due to Fernandes and Lintzmayer (J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 135: 158-174,2023): They prove that any <math><mi>α</mi></math> -approximation for the <i>hereditary</i> 3-<i>set packing problem</i>, a special case of weighted 3-set packing, yields a <math><mrow><mo>max</mo> <mo>{</mo> <mfrac><mn>4</mn> <mn>3</mn></mfrac> <mo>,</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo>}</mo></mrow> </math> -approximation for the MLSA in dags, and provide a <math><mfrac><mn>7</mn> <mn>5</mn></mfrac> </math> -approximation for the hereditary 3-set packing problem. In this paper, we improve upon this result by providing a <math><mfrac><mn>4</mn> <mn>3</mn></mfrac> </math> -approximation for the hereditary 3-set packing problem, and, thus, the MLSA in dags. The algorithm that we study is a simple local search procedure considering swaps of size up to 10 and can be analyzed via a two-stage charging argument. We further provide a clear picture of the general connection between the MLSA in dags and set packing by rephrasing the MLSA in dags as a <i>hereditary set packing problem</i>. With a much simpler proof, we extend the reduction by Fernandes and Lintzmayer and show that an <math><mi>α</mi></math> -approximation for the <i>hereditary</i> <i>k</i>-<i>set packing problem</i> implies a <math><mrow><mo>max</mo> <mo>{</mo> <mfrac><mrow><mi>k</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>1</mn></mrow> <mi>k</mi></mfrac> <mo>,</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo>}</mo></mrow> </math> -approximation for the MLSA dags. On the other hand, we provide lower bound examples proving that our approximation guarantee of <math><mfrac><mn>4</mn> <mn>3</mn></mfrac> </math> is best possible for local search algorithms with constant improvement size.</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"216 1-2","pages":"111-133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13124901/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147817115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A better-than-1.6-approximation for prize-collecting TSP. 对奖品收集TSP的优于1.6的近似。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02221-4
Jannis Blauth, Nathan Klein, Martin Nägele
{"title":"A better-than-1.6-approximation for prize-collecting TSP.","authors":"Jannis Blauth, Nathan Klein, Martin Nägele","doi":"10.1007/s10107-025-02221-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-025-02221-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prize-Collecting TSP is a variant of the traveling salesperson problem where one may drop vertices from the tour at the cost of vertex-dependent penalties. The quality of a solution is then measured by adding the length of the tour and the sum of all penalties of vertices that are not visited. We present a polynomial-time approximation algorithm with an approximation guarantee slightly below 1.6, where the guarantee is with respect to the natural linear programming relaxation of the problem. This improves upon the previous best-known approximation ratio of 1.774. Our approach is based on a known decomposition for solutions of this linear relaxation into rooted trees. Our algorithm takes a tree from this decomposition and then performs a pruning step before doing parity correction on the remainder. Using a simple analysis, we bound the approximation guarantee of the proposed algorithm by <math><mrow><mo>(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <msqrt><mn>5</mn></msqrt> <mo>)</mo> <mrow><mo>/</mo></mrow> <mn>2</mn> <mo>≈</mo> <mn>1.618</mn></mrow> </math> , the golden ratio. With some additional technical care we further improve the approximation guarantee to 1.599. Furthermore, we show that for the path version of Prize-Collecting TSP (known as Prize-Collecting Stroll) our approach yields an approximation guarantee of 1.6662, improving upon the previous best-known guarantee of 1.926.</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"216 1-2","pages":"87-109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13124855/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147817169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dyadic linear programming and extensions. 并矢线性规划及其扩展。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02146-4
Ahmad Abdi, Gérard Cornuéjols, Bertrand Guenin, Levent Tunçel
{"title":"Dyadic linear programming and extensions.","authors":"Ahmad Abdi, Gérard Cornuéjols, Bertrand Guenin, Levent Tunçel","doi":"10.1007/s10107-024-02146-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-024-02146-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rational number is <i>dyadic</i> if it has a finite binary representation <math><mrow><mi>p</mi> <mo>/</mo> <msup><mn>2</mn> <mi>k</mi></msup> </mrow> </math> , where <i>p</i> is an integer and <i>k</i> is a nonnegative integer. Dyadic rationals are important for numerical computations because they have an exact representation in floating-point arithmetic on a computer. A vector is <i>dyadic</i> if all its entries are dyadic rationals. We study the problem of finding a dyadic optimal solution to a linear program, if one exists. We show how to solve dyadic linear programs in polynomial time. We give bounds on the size of the support of a solution as well as on the size of the denominators. We identify properties that make the solution of dyadic linear programs possible: closure under addition and negation, and density, and we extend the algorithmic framework beyond the dyadic case.</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"213 1-2","pages":"473-516"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12402050/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144993066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fast convergence of trust-regions for non-isolated minima via analysis of CG on indefinite matrices. 基于不定矩阵上CG的非孤立极小值信赖域的快速收敛。
IF 2.5 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02140-w
Quentin Rebjock, Nicolas Boumal
{"title":"Fast convergence of trust-regions for non-isolated minima via analysis of CG on indefinite matrices.","authors":"Quentin Rebjock, Nicolas Boumal","doi":"10.1007/s10107-024-02140-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-024-02140-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trust-region methods (TR) can converge quadratically to minima where the Hessian is positive definite. However, if the minima are not isolated, then the Hessian there cannot be positive definite. The weaker Polyak-Łojasiewicz (PŁ) condition is compatible with non-isolated minima, and it is enough for many algorithms to preserve good local behavior. Yet, TR with an <i>exact</i> subproblem solver lacks even basic features such as a capture theorem under PŁ. In practice, a popular <i>inexact</i> subproblem solver is the truncated conjugate gradient method (tCG). Empirically, TR-tCG exhibits superlinear convergence under PŁ. We confirm this theoretically. The main mathematical obstacle is that, under PŁ, at points arbitrarily close to minima, the Hessian has vanishingly small, possibly negative eigenvalues. Thus, tCG is applied to ill-conditioned, indefinite systems. Yet, the core theory underlying tCG is that of CG, which assumes a positive definite operator. Accordingly, we develop new tools to analyze the dynamics of CG in the presence of small eigenvalues of any sign, for the regime of interest to TR-tCG.</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"213 1-2","pages":"343-384"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12401806/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144993056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Advances on strictly Δ -modular IPs. 严格Δ -模块化ip的进展。
IF 2.2 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02148-2
Martin Nägele, Christian Nöbel, Richard Santiago, Rico Zenklusen
{"title":"<ArticleTitle xmlns:ns0=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\">Advances on strictly <ns0:math><ns0:mi>Δ</ns0:mi></ns0:math> -modular IPs.","authors":"Martin Nägele, Christian Nöbel, Richard Santiago, Rico Zenklusen","doi":"10.1007/s10107-024-02148-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-024-02148-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There has been significant work recently on integer programs (IPs) <math><mrow><mo>min</mo> <mo>{</mo> <msup><mi>c</mi> <mi>⊤</mi></msup> <mi>x</mi> <mo>:</mo> <mi>A</mi> <mi>x</mi> <mo>≤</mo> <mi>b</mi> <mo>,</mo> <mspace></mspace> <mi>x</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <msup><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow> <mi>n</mi></msup> <mo>}</mo></mrow> </math> with a constraint marix <i>A</i> with bounded subdeterminants. This is motivated by a well-known conjecture claiming that, for any constant <math><mrow><mi>Δ</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <msub><mi>Z</mi> <mrow><mo>></mo> <mn>0</mn></mrow> </msub> </mrow> </math> , <math><mi>Δ</mi></math> -modular IPs are efficiently solvable, which are IPs where the constraint matrix <math><mrow><mi>A</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <msup><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow> <mrow><mi>m</mi> <mo>×</mo> <mi>n</mi></mrow> </msup> </mrow> </math> has full column rank and all <math><mrow><mi>n</mi> <mo>×</mo> <mi>n</mi></mrow> </math> minors of <i>A</i> are within <math><mrow><mo>{</mo> <mo>-</mo> <mi>Δ</mi> <mo>,</mo> <mo>⋯</mo> <mo>,</mo> <mi>Δ</mi> <mo>}</mo></mrow> </math> . Previous progress on this question, in particular for <math><mrow><mi>Δ</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>2</mn></mrow> </math> , relies on algorithms that solve an important special case, namely <i>strictly</i> <math><mi>Δ</mi></math> -<i>modular IPs</i>, which further restrict the <math><mrow><mi>n</mi> <mo>×</mo> <mi>n</mi></mrow> </math> minors of <i>A</i> to be within <math><mrow><mo>{</mo> <mo>-</mo> <mi>Δ</mi> <mo>,</mo> <mn>0</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mi>Δ</mi> <mo>}</mo></mrow> </math> . Even for <math><mrow><mi>Δ</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>2</mn></mrow> </math> , such problems include well-known combinatorial optimization problems like the minimum odd/even cut problem. The conjecture remains open even for strictly <math><mi>Δ</mi></math> -modular IPs. Prior advances were restricted to prime <math><mi>Δ</mi></math> , which allows for employing strong number-theoretic results. In this work, we make first progress beyond the prime case by presenting techniques not relying on such strong number-theoretic prime results. In particular, our approach implies that there is a randomized algorithm to check feasibility of strictly <math><mi>Δ</mi></math> -modular IPs in strongly polynomial time if <math><mrow><mi>Δ</mi> <mo>≤</mo> <mn>4</mn></mrow> </math> .</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"210 1-2","pages":"731-760"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11870991/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143542512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Constant-competitiveness for random assignment Matroid secretary without knowing the Matroid. 在不了解矩阵的情况下随机分配矩阵秘书的持续竞争力。
IF 2.2 2区 数学
Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02177-x
Richard Santiago, Ivan Sergeev, Rico Zenklusen
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