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Minimum tiling of a rectangle by squares

Given the $n\times m$ rectangle, I want to compute the minimum number of integer-sided squares needed to tile it (possibly of different sizes). Is there an efficient way to calculate this?
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When is polytope compatible with network flow?

A linear program is the problem of optimizing an linear objective function within some polytope $A$ over $\mathbf R^n$. My question is motivated by the question of when a linear programming problem ...
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Implementation of Friedman's algorithm of reconstructing simple polytopes

In Finding a Simple Polytope from Its Graph in Polynomial Time, Friedman gave a polynomial time algorithm on reconstructing a simple polytope from its graph. Has this algorithm been actually ...
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Are there scenarios under which feasibility bilinear programming is easy?

Given $c\in\Bbb R^{n_1},d\in\Bbb R^{n_2}$, $E\in\Bbb R^{n_1\times n_2}$, $A\in\Bbb R^{m_1\times n_1}$, $B\in\Bbb R^{m_2\times n_2}$ $a\in\Bbb R^{m_1}$, $b\in\Bbb R^{m_2}$ and $t\in\Bbb R$ we know ...
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Lot sizing problem: how to add these cuts efficiently

Consider the set of constraints of the uncapacitated lot sizing problem: $$ \{(x,s,y)\in \mathbb{R}^n_+ \times \mathbb{R}^n_+ \times \mathbb{B}^n \;|\;s_{t-1}+x_t = d_t+s_t,\; x_t \le My_t,\; t=1,\...
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Finding orthogonal basis with constraint

Is there any fast algorithm that output an orthogonal basis $e_i,i\leq n$ of $R^n$ with $e_i\in V_i$? Where $V_i,i\leq n$ are given linear subspaces of $R^n$. And is there any condition on $V_i,i\leq ...
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Select n vectors from k vectors (in 3D) such that each component of the resultant vector >= each component of a given vector M

this was left unanswered for 1 week on MStackExchange, so I thought MOverflow would be more appropriate. Thanks :) Let $R = (R_x, R_y, R_z)$ be the resultant vector of the n vectors and $M = (M_x, ...
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In what paper was the shrinkage parameter introduced to the nelder-mead simplex direct search algorithm?

I have read lots of papers referencing a 4th shrinkage parameter when talking about the Nelder Mead Simplex method. However, I cannot see any shrinkage parameter in the flow chart of the original ...
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$\mathrm{LP}$ formulation for $\mathrm{k}$-$\operatorname{opt}$ moves

$\mathrm{k}$-$\operatorname{opt}$ moves are an idea to improve non-optimal Hamilton cycles in weighted symmetric graphs by exchanging $\mathrm{k}$ tour-edges with $\mathrm{k}$ edges that do not belong ...
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Reference for the algorithm to find the intersection between a subspace and positive orthant

I came across this algorithm, in this question Algorithm for the intersection of a vector subspace with a cone of non-negative vectors ; Is there any reference for the algorithm described in the ...
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Calculating Cost-Optimal 1-Factors in Digraphs

I need to find a cost-optimal 1-factor in a positively weighted, directed, regular graph $G(V,A)$ without antiparallel arcs, i.e. given $$\text{deg}_{\text{in}}(u)=\text{deg}_{\text{in}}(v)=\text{deg}...
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How to solve simple bilinear equations under extra linear constraints

Hello, This is the full version of a question I asked earlier. I am trying to understand whether finding a solution to the following bilinear system is computationally hard or easy: $\lambda_i^T u_{...
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Solve NP-hard type problems with linear programming

I would like to know if there is any way to solve an NP-hard type problem, for example, the TSP, sum of subsets or knapsack problem, by using linear programming and not by brute force. I ask this ...
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Why is Gaussian distribution always chosen for smoothed analysis?

I came across the algorithmic perfomance analysis model of smoothed analysis. In all references that I read a Gaussian distribution was used for perturbation (e.g. Spielman and Teng 2004 for the ...
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