Error mitigation techniques have become mandatory in aerospace applications to cope with soft errors. Approximate error mitigation techniques are an attractive solution to reduce the overheads caused by conventional a...
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Error mitigation techniques have become mandatory in aerospace applications to cope with soft errors. Approximate error mitigation techniques are an attractive solution to reduce the overheads caused by conventional approaches, such as triple modular redundancy. These techniques use approximate redundant copies of the target design, which can be implemented with less resources, at the expense of slightly reducing the precision of the result in case of error. In this work, we propose optimized redundancy for composite algorithms, a novel hardening technique for algorithms that may be decomposed into more simple parts. Instead of adding identical redundant modules, we use complementary modules that can be composed to implement the target design. These complementary modules can also be compared to detect errors. However, when they are correct, they produce an exact result instead of an approximate result. The experimental results show that this technique can reduce the overhead and provide a better tradeoff between overhead and precision than existing approximate techniques.
Satellite mission planning for Earth observation satellites is a combinatorial optimization problem that consists of selecting the optimal subset of imaging requests, subject to constraints, to be fulfilled during an ...
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Satellite mission planning for Earth observation satellites is a combinatorial optimization problem that consists of selecting the optimal subset of imaging requests, subject to constraints, to be fulfilled during an orbit pass of a satellite. The ever-growing amount of satellites in orbit underscores the need to operate them efficiently, which requires solving many instances of the problem in short periods of time. However, current classical algorithms often fail to find the global optimum or take too long to execute. Here, we approach the problem from a quantum computing point of view, which offers a promising alternative that could lead to significant improvements in solution quality or execution speed in the future. To this end, we study a planning problem with a variety of intricate constraints and discuss methods to encode them for quantum computers. Additionally, we experimentally assess the performance of quantum annealing and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm on a realistic and diverse dataset. Our results identify key aspects like graph connectivity and constraint structure that influence the performance of the methods. We explore the limits of today's quantum algorithms and hardware, providing bounds on the problems that can be currently solved successfully and showing how the solution degrades as the complexity grows. This work aims to serve as a baseline for further research in the field and establish realistic expectations on current quantum optimization capabilities.
Vertex Cover is a fundamental optimization problem, and is among Karp’s 21 NP-complete problems. The problem aims to compute, for a given graph G, a minimum-size set S of vertices of G such that G−S contains no edge....
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We consider the capacitated cycle covering problem: given an undirected, complete graph G with metric edge lengths and demands on the vertices, we want to cover the vertices with vertex-disjoint cycles, each serving a...
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We consider the capacitated cycle covering problem: given an undirected, complete graph G with metric edge lengths and demands on the vertices, we want to cover the vertices with vertex-disjoint cycles, each serving a demand of at most one. The objective is to minimize a linear combination of the total length and the number of cycles. This problem is closely related to the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) and other cycle cover problems such as min-max cycle cover and bounded cycle cover. We show that a greedy algorithm followed by a post-processing step yields a (2 + 2/7)-approximation for this problem by comparing the solution to a polymatroid relaxation. We also show that the analysis of our algorithm is tight and provide a 2+ epsilon lower bound for the relaxation.
Aiming at the problem of strong coupling and time-delay issues in the temperature-pressure control of supercritical CO2 extraction systems, an inverse decoupling fuzzy active disturbance rejection control method based...
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Aiming at the problem of strong coupling and time-delay issues in the temperature-pressure control of supercritical CO2 extraction systems, an inverse decoupling fuzzy active disturbance rejection control method based on pole approximation is proposed. Firstly, by approximating the time-delay link of the controlled subsystem using pole approximation, the matching degree of the two-input signals of the linear extended state observer (LESO) is improved. Secondly, an inverse decoupling time-synchronized active disturbance rejection control method is proposed to address the coupling link of temperature-pressure as well as the complex control environments and numerous disturbances. Furthermore, the controller parameters are tuned using bandwidth method and fuzzy control rules, and theoretical analysis of this method is conducted. In addition, comparative simulations are conducted to validate this method against other approaches. The results indicate that this method exhibits better tracking performance, disturbance rejection capability, and robustness in the temperature-pressure control of supercritical CO2 extraction systems. Finally, the feasibility of this method in reality was verified through experimental platforms.
This paper considers approximation algorithms for generalized k-median problems. This class of problems can be informally described as k-median with a constant number of extra constraints, and includes k-median with o...
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This paper considers approximation algorithms for generalized k-median problems. This class of problems can be informally described as k-median with a constant number of extra constraints, and includes k-median with outliers, and knapsack median. Our first contribution is a pseudo-approximation algorithm for generalized k-median that outputs a 6.387-approximate solution, with a constant number of fractional variables. The algorithm builds on the iterative rounding framework introduced by Krishnaswamy, Li, and Sandeep for k-median with outliers. The main technical innovation is allowing richer constraint sets in the iterative rounding and taking advantage of the structure of the resulting extreme points. Using our pseudo-approximation algorithm, we give improved approximation algorithms for k-median with outliers and knapsack median. This involves combining our pseudo-approximation with pre- and post-processing steps to round a constant number of fractional variables at a small increase in cost. Our algorithms achieve approximation ratios 6.994+& varepsilon;and 6.387+& varepsilon;for k-median with outliers and knapsack median, respectively. These improve on the best-known approximation ratio 7.081+& varepsilon;for both problems as reported (Krishnaswamy et al. in: Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACMSIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2018).
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) enable the execution of deep learning-compatible tasks and approximation algorithms with low latency and low power consumption by operating on a neuromorphic system. Adopting analog in-m...
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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) enable the execution of deep learning-compatible tasks and approximation algorithms with low latency and low power consumption by operating on a neuromorphic system. Adopting analog in-memory computing (AiMC) in a neuromorphic system can build a system that has an advantage in memory density over a pure digital implementation. However, sensing the AiMC output with simple circuitry inevitably leads to unintended nonlinearities. In this study, we design a neuromorphic circuit using memcapacitive AiMC synapses with ultra-low power. We combine circuit nonlinearity-aware training (CNAT) with network compression techniques to prevent the SNN from losing accuracy caused by the neuron circuit's nonlinearity and the synapse's low resolution. The training runs on a machine learning framework and does not need to incorporate computationally intensive SPICE simulations. As simulated, our circuit performs MNIST classifications with almost no loss from ideal accuracy (97.64%) and consumes 15.7 nJ per inference.
Portfolio optimization is a primary component of the decision-making process in finance, aiming to tactfully allocate assets to achieve optimal returns while considering various constraints. Herein, we proposed a meth...
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Portfolio optimization is a primary component of the decision-making process in finance, aiming to tactfully allocate assets to achieve optimal returns while considering various constraints. Herein, we proposed a method that uses the knapsack-based portfolio optimization problem and incorporates the quantum computing capabilities of the quantum walk mixer with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) to address the challenges presented by the NP-hard problem. Additionally, we present the sequential procedure of our suggested approach and demonstrate empirical proof to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in finding the optimal asset allocations across various constraints and asset choices. Moreover, we discuss the effectiveness of the QAOA components in relation to our proposed method. Consequently, our study successfully achieves the approximate ratio of the portfolio optimization technique using a circuit layer of $p\geqslant 3$ , compared to the classical best-known solution of the knapsack problem. Our proposed methods potentially contribute to the growing field of quantum finance by offering insights into the potential benefits of employing quantum algorithms for complex optimization tasks in financial portfolio management.
We consider the problem of stragglers in distributed computing systems. Stragglers, which are compute nodes that unpredictably slow down, often increase the completion times of tasks. One common approach to mitigating...
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We consider the problem of stragglers in distributed computing systems. Stragglers, which are compute nodes that unpredictably slow down, often increase the completion times of tasks. One common approach to mitigating stragglers is work replication, where only the first completion among replicated tasks is accepted, discarding the others. However, discarding work leads to resource wastage. In this article, we propose a method for exploiting the work completed by stragglers rather than discarding it. The idea is to increase the granularity of the assigned work, and to increase the frequency of worker updates. We show that the proposed method reduces the completion time of tasks via experiments performed on a simulated cluster as well as on Amazon EC2 with Apache Hadoop.
User-centric networking is expected to be a promising technology to implement ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). However, the densely deployed access points (APs) in a user-centric network (UCN) wil...
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User-centric networking is expected to be a promising technology to implement ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). However, the densely deployed access points (APs) in a user-centric network (UCN) will involve significant hardware costs and energy consumption. To address this issue, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided UCN for URLLC. Then, a joint optimization problem with consideration of active beamforming at APs and passive beamforming at RISs is formulated to achieve optimal energy efficiency (EE). Since the problem is intractable and non-convex, we develop an alternating optimization algorithm based on the inner approximation framework to solve it efficiently. Numerical results verify that the proposed algorithm outperforms baseline algorithms regarding EE. Particularly, with the proposed algorithm, our RIS-aided UCN achieves up to 147% performance gains in terms of EE compared to traditional UCN.
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