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How to solve a optimal matching problem where the "quality" of matching is only determined once all nodes are matched
Note: I'm not a mathematician; I'm just a biologist with basic math background trying to solve a scientific problem, so please excuse my ignorance.
The gist of the problem is as follows:
I have two ...
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Maximum determinant of binary matrices with special properties
Let $A$ be an $n$-by-$n$ binary matrix (all elements are in $\{0,1\}$). It is known that the determinant of $A$ is bounded by $O(n^{n/2} / 2^n)$. I am looking for tighter upper bounds for matrices ...
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Is matrix B obtained from matrix A?
Assuming a matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{4096 \times 4096}$ sampled from a standard normal distribution $N(0, 1)$, and another matrix $\mathbf{B} \in \mathbb{R}^{4096 \times 4096}$ either sampled ...
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Compute 01-vectors in the orbit of a given vector wrt a finitely-generated abelian subgroup of SL(n,ℤ)
Given a vector $v\in\mathbb Z^n$ and pairwise commutative matrices $M_1,\dotsc,M_k\in \operatorname{SL}(n,\mathbb Z)$, how to compute all 01-vectors in the orbit of $v$ with respect to multiplication ...
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Algorithm to minimize $\operatorname{tr}(PAP^TB)$?
Let say I have two $n$ x $n$ matrices $A$ and $B$ where all elements are real positive values. I want to find some $n$ x $n$ permutation matrix $P$ such that $\operatorname{tr}(P A P ^T B)$ is ...
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Combinatorial graph optimization problem on integer adjacency matrices
We are given a $n\times n$ symmetric matrix $M$ whose entries are positive integers.
Let $z_{i,j}:=\frac{M_{i,j}}{M_{i,j}+\sum_{k\neq i,j}\min(M_{i,k},M_{k,j})}$ for all $1\le i<j \le n$, and
$z:=\...
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Finding the minimum sum of a subset of entries of a given matrix with combinatorial constraints
Given a matrix $M\in\mathbb{N}^{n\times n}$, let $Z$ be the set of all the $M$'s entry subsets $S$ such that (i) no two entries of $S$ are on the same row or column of $M$ and (ii) $|S|=n$. Clearly we ...
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Making binary matrix positive semidefinite by switching signs
Let $A \in \{\pm 1\}^{n \times n}$ be a symmetric matrix whose diagonal entries are $+1$. Let $f(A)$ be the smallest number of signs we need to change in $A$ so that it becomes positive semidefinite (...
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another extremal property of regular polygons
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In 1984 S.D.Berman, a Soviet mathematician, ...
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The minimum rank of a matrix over GF(2) when part of non-zero off-diagonal elements are set to be zero
Given an $n\times n$ matrix $A$, whose elements are over $GF\left(2\right)$ and all diagonal elements are $1$. There are $m\ (m\leq n^2-n)$ non-zero off-diagonal elements in $A$. If we are allowed to ...
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Factoring a positive semidefinite matrix into binary matrices
This question is motivated by a research problem I recently encountered. Consider two sets of random variables $\mathbf{X}$ and $\mathbf{Y}$, where $\mathbf{Y}$ can be expressed as a linear ...
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Maximum rank in a class of $0\,$-$1$ partitioned matrices satisfying combinatorial constraints
We are given a matrix $M \in \{0,1\}^{n\times n}$ satisfying the following property.
The rows and columns of $M$ can be partitioned into $k$ rowgroups and $k$ colgroups respectively, such that in ...
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Sparse matrix approximation using only a few dense columns (or rows)
Given a dense matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times m}$, with $n < m$, I am interested in finding a good approximation by choosing $s$ rows and zeroing the rest. This leads me to the following ...
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How to solve this matrix optimization problem? [closed]
$$\min_{X,P} \| X D + (P X P') \, D_0 \|_{\text{F}}$$
where $X$ is a symmetric matrix and $P$ is a permutation matrix. $D$ and $D_0$ are given symmetric matrices. Is there some way to solve this ...
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Submatrix with small sum of elements
Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix, for which I know the size of the sum of all its entries. Now I want to select an $m \times m$-submatrix, whose sum of entries is as small as possible. Is there any ...
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Lower bound on the value $\textbf{1}^Tx$ such as $Ax\geq b$
The problem may be formulated as follows:
We are given a set of $m$ positive numbers $\{b_1,...,b_m\}$ and a set of $n$ positive numbers $\{v_1,...,v_n\}$. We have $v_j\leq K$, $j=1,...,n$, for a ...
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Complexity of reordering a matrix which consists independent sub matrices
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Given a matrix A of a $k$ regular graph G. The matrix A can be divided into 4 sub matrices based on adjacency of vertex $x \in G$.
$A_x$ is the symmetric matrix of the graph $(G-x)$, ...
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Given $M$, minimize $|Mx|_0$
Given a matrix $M \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times m}$, I would like to find
$\min_{x \in \mathbb{R}^m} \|Mx\|_0$ such that $x \neq 0^m$,
where the $\ell_0$ "norm" is measured by simply counting the number ...
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Maximizing a certain concave function over a non-convex set
I have been working on a problem which involves maximizing a concave function over a non convex constraint set. The problem is the following $$max. \frac{1}{2}x^TBx\\ s.t.\ x_i(1-x_i)=0,\ \ i=1,\cdots,...
