5 Search Results for "Gomes, Carla P."


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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Approximation Schemes for Geometric Knapsack for Packing Spheres and Fat Objects

Authors: Pritam Acharya, Sujoy Bhore, Aaryan Gupta, Arindam Khan, Bratin Mondal, and Andreas Wiese

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
We study the geometric knapsack problem in which we are given a set of d-dimensional objects (each with associated profits) and the goal is to find the maximum profit subset that can be packed non-overlappingly into a given d-dimensional (unit hypercube) knapsack. Even if d = 2 and all input objects are disks, this problem is known to be NP-hard [Demaine, Fekete, Lang, 2010]. In this paper, we give polynomial time (1+ε)-approximation algorithms for the following types of input objects in any constant dimension d: - disks and hyperspheres, - a class of fat convex polygons that generalizes regular k-gons for k ≥ 5 (formally, polygons with a constant number of edges, whose lengths are in a bounded range, and in which each angle is strictly larger than π/2), - arbitrary fat convex objects that are sufficiently small compared to the knapsack. We remark that in our PTAS for disks and hyperspheres, we output the computed set of objects, but for a O_ε(1) of them we determine their coordinates only up to an exponentially small error. However, it is not clear whether there always exists a (1+ε)-approximate solution that uses only rational coordinates for the disks' centers. We leave this as an open problem which is related to well-studied geometric questions in the realm of circle packing.

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Pritam Acharya, Sujoy Bhore, Aaryan Gupta, Arindam Khan, Bratin Mondal, and Andreas Wiese. Approximation Schemes for Geometric Knapsack for Packing Spheres and Fat Objects. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 8:1-8:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{acharya_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.8,
  author =	{Acharya, Pritam and Bhore, Sujoy and Gupta, Aaryan and Khan, Arindam and Mondal, Bratin and Wiese, Andreas},
  title =	{{Approximation Schemes for Geometric Knapsack for Packing Spheres and Fat Objects}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201511},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Polygon Packing, Circle Packing, Sphere Packing, Geometric Knapsack, Resource Augmentation}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Limits of Sequential Local Algorithms on the Random k-XORSAT Problem

Authors: Kingsley Yung

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
The random k-XORSAT problem is a random constraint satisfaction problem of n Boolean variables and m = rn clauses, which a random instance can be expressed as a G𝔽(2) linear system of the form Ax = b, where A is a random m × n matrix with k ones per row, and b is a random vector. It is known that there exist two distinct thresholds r_{core}(k) < r_{sat}(k) such that as n → ∞ for r < r_{sat}(k) the random instance has solutions with high probability, while for r_{core} < r < r_{sat}(k) the solution space shatters into an exponential number of clusters. Sequential local algorithms are a natural class of algorithms which assign values to variables one by one iteratively. In each iteration, the algorithm runs some heuristics, called local rules, to decide the value assigned, based on the local neighborhood of the selected variables under the factor graph representation of the instance. We prove that for any r > r_{core}(k) the sequential local algorithms with certain local rules fail to solve the random k-XORSAT with high probability. They include (1) the algorithm using the Unit Clause Propagation as local rule for k ≥ 9, and (2) the algorithms using any local rule that can calculate the exact marginal probabilities of variables in instances with factor graphs that are trees, for k ≥ 13. The well-known Belief Propagation and Survey Propagation are included in (2). Meanwhile, the best known linear-time algorithm succeeds with high probability for r < r_{core}(k). Our results support the intuition that r_{core}(k) is the sharp threshold for the existence of a linear-time algorithm for random k-XORSAT. Our approach is to apply the Overlap Gap Property OGP framework to the sub-instance induced by the core of the instance, instead of the whole instance. By doing so, the sequential local algorithms can be ruled out at density as low as r_{core}(k), since the sub-instance exhibits OGP at much lower clause density, compared with the whole instance.

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Kingsley Yung. Limits of Sequential Local Algorithms on the Random k-XORSAT Problem. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 123:1-123:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{yung:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.123,
  author =	{Yung, Kingsley},
  title =	{{Limits of Sequential Local Algorithms on the Random k-XORSAT Problem}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{123:1--123:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.123},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202666},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.123},
  annote =	{Keywords: Random k-XORSAT, Sequential local algorithms, Average-case complexity, Phase transition, Overlap gap property}
}
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Grounding Stream Reasoning Research

Authors: Pieter Bonte, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Daniel de Leng, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Thomas Eiter, Federico Giannini, Fredrik Heintz, Konstantin Schekotihin, Danh Le-Phuoc, Alessandra Mileo, Patrik Schneider, Riccardo Tommasini, Jacopo Urbani, and Giacomo Ziffer

Published in: TGDK, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2024): Special Issue on Trends in Graph Data and Knowledge - Part 2. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 2, Issue 1


Abstract
In the last decade, there has been a growing interest in applying AI technologies to implement complex data analytics over data streams. To this end, researchers in various fields have been organising a yearly event called the "Stream Reasoning Workshop" to share perspectives, challenges, and experiences around this topic. In this paper, the previous organisers of the workshops and other community members provide a summary of the main research results that have been discussed during the first six editions of the event. These results can be categorised into four main research areas: The first is concerned with the technological challenges related to handling large data streams. The second area aims at adapting and extending existing semantic technologies to data streams. The third and fourth areas focus on how to implement reasoning techniques, either considering deductive or inductive techniques, to extract new and valuable knowledge from the data in the stream. This summary is written not only to provide a crystallisation of the field, but also to point out distinctive traits of the stream reasoning community. Moreover, it also provides a foundation for future research by enumerating a list of use cases and open challenges, to stimulate others to join this exciting research area.

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Pieter Bonte, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Daniel de Leng, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Thomas Eiter, Federico Giannini, Fredrik Heintz, Konstantin Schekotihin, Danh Le-Phuoc, Alessandra Mileo, Patrik Schneider, Riccardo Tommasini, Jacopo Urbani, and Giacomo Ziffer. Grounding Stream Reasoning Research. In Special Issue on Trends in Graph Data and Knowledge - Part 2. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 2:1-2:47, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@Article{bonte_et_al:TGDK.2.1.2,
  author =	{Bonte, Pieter and Calbimonte, Jean-Paul and de Leng, Daniel and Dell'Aglio, Daniele and Della Valle, Emanuele and Eiter, Thomas and Giannini, Federico and Heintz, Fredrik and Schekotihin, Konstantin and Le-Phuoc, Danh and Mileo, Alessandra and Schneider, Patrik and Tommasini, Riccardo and Urbani, Jacopo and Ziffer, Giacomo},
  title =	{{Grounding Stream Reasoning Research}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{2:1--2:47},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{2},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.2.1.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198597},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.2.1.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Stream Reasoning, Stream Processing, RDF streams, Streaming Linked Data, Continuous query processing, Temporal Logics, High-performance computing, Databases}
}
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A New Approach to Finding 2 x n Partially Spatially Balanced Latin Rectangles (Short Paper)

Authors: Renee Mirka, Laura Greenstreet, Marc Grimson, and Carla P. Gomes

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 280, 29th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2023)


Abstract
Partially spatially balanced Latin rectangles are combinatorial structures that are important for experimental design. However, it is computationally challenging to find even small optimally balanced rectangles, where previous work has not been able to prove optimality for any rectangle with a dimension above size 11. Here we introduce a graph-based encoding for the 2 × n case based on finding the minimum-cost clique of size n. This encoding inspires a new mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulation, which finds exact solutions for the 2 × 12 and 2 × 13 cases and provides improved bounds up to n = 20. Compared to three other methods, the new formulation establishes the best lower bound in all cases and establishes the best upper bound in five out of seven cases.

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Renee Mirka, Laura Greenstreet, Marc Grimson, and Carla P. Gomes. A New Approach to Finding 2 x n Partially Spatially Balanced Latin Rectangles (Short Paper). In 29th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 280, pp. 47:1-47:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{mirka_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2023.47,
  author =	{Mirka, Renee and Greenstreet, Laura and Grimson, Marc and Gomes, Carla P.},
  title =	{{A New Approach to Finding 2 x n Partially Spatially Balanced Latin Rectangles}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2023)},
  pages =	{47:1--47:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-300-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{280},
  editor =	{Yap, Roland H. C.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2023.47},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-190849},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2023.47},
  annote =	{Keywords: Spatially balanced Latin squares, partially spatially balanced Latin rectangles, minimum edge weight clique, combinatorial optimization, mixed integer programming, imbalance, cliques}
}
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CLR-DRNets: Curriculum Learning with Restarts to Solve Visual Combinatorial Games

Authors: Yiwei Bai, Di Chen, and Carla P. Gomes

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 210, 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021)


Abstract
We introduce a curriculum learning framework for challenging tasks that require a combination of pattern recognition and combinatorial reasoning, such as single-player visual combinatorial games. Our work harnesses Deep Reasoning Nets (DRNets) [Chen et al., 2020], a framework that combines deep learning with constraint reasoning for unsupervised pattern demixing. We propose CLR-DRNets (pronounced Clear-DRNets), a curriculum-learning-with-restarts framework to boost the performance of DRNets. CLR-DRNets incrementally increase the difficulty of the training instances and use restarts, a new model selection method that selects multiple models from the same training trajectory to learn a set of diverse heuristics and apply them at inference time. An enhanced reasoning module is also proposed for CLR-DRNets to improve the ability of reasoning and generalize to unseen instances. We consider Visual Sudoku, i.e., Sudoku with hand-written digits or letters, and Visual Mixed Sudoku, a substantially more challenging task that requires the demixing and completion of two overlapping Visual Sudokus. We propose an enhanced reasoning module for the DRNets framework for encoding these visual games We show how CLR-DRNets considerably outperform DRNets and other approaches on these visual combinatorial games.

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Yiwei Bai, Di Chen, and Carla P. Gomes. CLR-DRNets: Curriculum Learning with Restarts to Solve Visual Combinatorial Games. In 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 210, pp. 17:1-17:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{bai_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2021.17,
  author =	{Bai, Yiwei and Chen, Di and Gomes, Carla P.},
  title =	{{CLR-DRNets: Curriculum Learning with Restarts to Solve Visual Combinatorial Games}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-211-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{210},
  editor =	{Michel, Laurent D.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-153086},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Unsupervised Learning, Combinatorial Optimization}
}
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