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20242026
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7 papers

cs.DM2026

Parallelizable Gradient-Based Optimization For Multi-Objective MaxCut

Jingjuan Huang, Alvaro Velasquez, Cheng-Han Huang +3

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization arises in a wide range of problems and applications, including the canonical multi-objective MaxCut problem. Differentiable single-instan…

cs.DM2026

Differentiable Repairability & Mutations for Scalable Combinatorial Optimization

Yongliang Sun, Ismail Alkhouri, Cheng-Han Huang +3

Combinatorial optimization problems such as Maximum Independent Set (MIS) and Maximum Cut (MaxCut) arise across a wide range of applications, yet solving large-scale instances rema…

cs.LG2026

Differentiable Initialization-Accelerated CPU-GPU Hybrid Combinatorial Scheduling

Mingju Liu, Jiaqi Yin, Alvaro Velasquez +1

This paper presents a hybrid CPU-GPU framework for solving combinatorial scheduling problems formulated as Integer Linear Programming (ILP). While scheduling underpins many optimiz…

cs.LO2026

GaloisSAT: Differentiable Boolean Satisfiability Solving via Finite Field Algebra

Curie Kim, Carsten Portner, Mingju Liu +6

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem, the first problem proven to be NP-complete, has become a fundamental challenge in computational complexity, with widespread applications in op…

cs.DM2025

A Scalable Lift-and-Project Differentiable Approach For the Maximum Cut Problem

Ismail Alkhouri, Mian Wu, Cunxi Yu +3

We propose a scalable framework for solving the Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem in large graphs using projected gradient ascent on quadratic objectives. Our approach is differentiable…

cs.LG2025

A Dataless Reinforcement Learning Approach to Rounding Hyperplane Optimization for Max-Cut

Gabriel Maliakal, Ismail Alkhouri, Alvaro Velasquez +2

The Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem is NP-Complete, and obtaining its optimal solution is NP-hard in the worst case. As a result, heuristic-based algorithms are commonly used, though…

cs.DM2024

Differentiable Quadratic Optimization For The Maximum Independent Set Problem

Ismail Alkhouri, Cedric Le Denmat, Yingjie Li +4

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) addresses many important problems, including the challenging Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. Alongside exact and heuristic solvers, different…