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5 papers

cs.DM2026

Mutation-Guided Differentiable Quadratic Combinatorial Optimization

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

Recent studies suggest that gradient-based methods applied to relaxed box-constrained Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulations can outperform classical heuri…

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.DM2026

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

On the Dataless Training of Neural Networks

Alvaro Velasquez, Susmit Jha, Ismail R. Alkhouri

This paper surveys studies on the use of neural networks for optimization in the training-data-free setting. Specifically, we examine the dataless application of neural network arc…

cs.DM2025

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…