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Minimum Cost Intervention Design for Causal Effect Identification

Negar Kiyavash, Sina Akbari, Seyed Jalal Etesami

Pearl's do calculus is a complete axiomatic approach to learn the identifiable causal effects from observational data. When such an effect is not identifiable, it is necessary to perform a collection of often costly interventions in the system to learn the ...

PMLR2022

The double exponential runtime is tight for 2-stage stochastic ILPs

Kim-Manuel Klein, Klaus Jansen, Alexandra Anna Lassota

We consider fundamental algorithmic number theoretic problems and their relation to a class of block structured Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) called 2-stage stochastic. A 2-stage stochastic ILP is an integer program of the form min{c(T)x vertical bar Ax = ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2022

Discrete Optimal Transport with Independent Marginals is #P-Hard

Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Bahar Taskesen

We study the computational complexity of the optimal transport problem that evaluates the Wasser- stein distance between the distributions of two K-dimensional discrete random vectors. The best known algorithms for this problem run in polynomial time in th ...

2022

Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education

Cyril Picard

Machine intelligence greatly impacts almost all domains of our societies. It is profoundly changing the field of mechanical engineering with new technical possibilities and processes. The education of future engineers also needs to adapt in terms of techni ...

EPFL2021

Adaptation in Stochastic Algorithms: From Nonsmooth Optimization to Min-Max Problems and Beyond

Ahmet Alacaoglu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and randomized coordinate descent (RCD) are two of the workhorses for training modern automated decision systems. Intriguingly, convergence properties of these methods are not well-established as we move away from the spec ...

EPFL2021

We study the search problem class PPA_q defined as a modulo-q analog of the well-known polynomial parity argument class PPA introduced by Papadimitriou (JCSS 1994). Our first result shows that this class can be characterized in terms of PPA_p for prime p. ...

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik2020

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Train Routing and Scheduling

Zora Oswald

Good train scheduling for a big network with many trains is very hard to achieve. As the trains are competing for the tracks with one another, the number of constraints grows rapidly. Trying to take advantage of emerging technologies in the areas of optimi ...

2020

Hardness Results for Consensus-Halving

Jie Zhang, Aris Filos Ratsikas

The Consensus-halving problem is the problem of dividing an object into two portions, such that each of n agents has equal valuation for the two portions. We study the epsilon-approximate version, which allows each agent to have an epsilon discrepancy on t ...

Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik2018

Sketchy Decisions: Convex Low-Rank Matrix Optimization with Optimal Storage

Volkan Cevher, Alp Yurtsever

This paper considers a fundamental class of convex matrix optimization problems with low-rank solutions. We show it is possible to solve these problem using far less memory than the natural size of the decision variable when the problem data has a concise ...

2017

A unified framework for rich routing problems with stochastic demands

Michel Bierlaire, Sacha Varone, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Iliya Dimitrov Markov

We introduce a unified framework for rich vehicle and inventory routing problems with complex physical and temporal constraints. Demands are stochastic, can be non-stationary, and are forecast using any model that provides the expected demands and their er ...

2017