In the discrete bamboo garden trimming problem we are given n bamboo that grow at rates v1, . . ., vn per day. Each day a robotic gardener cuts down one bamboo to height 0. The goal is to find a schedule that minimize...
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We present and analyze a stochastic distributed method (S-NEAR-DGD) that can tolerate inexact computation and inaccurate information exchange to alleviate the problems of costly gradient evaluations and bandwidth-limi...
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We present and analyze a stochastic distributed method (S-NEAR-DGD) that can tolerate inexact computation and inaccurate information exchange to alleviate the problems of costly gradient evaluations and bandwidth-limited communication in large-scale systems. Our method is based on a class of flexible, distributed first-order algorithms that allow for the tradeoff of computation and communication to best accommodate the application setting. We assume that the information exchanged between nodes is subject to random distortion and that only stochastic approximations of the true gradients are available. Our theoretical results prove that the proposed algorithm converges linearly in expectation to a neighborhood of the optimal solution for strongly convex objective functions with Lipschitz gradients. We characterize the dependence of this neighborhood on algorithm and network parameters, the quality of the communication channel and the precision of the stochastic gradient approximations used. Finally, we provide numerical results to evaluate the empirical performance of our method.
Since the inception in 1995, Differential Evolution (DE) has gained significant attention from researchers worldwide, and many DE variants proposed in the last decades obtained excellent performance in many scientific...
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Since the inception in 1995, Differential Evolution (DE) has gained significant attention from researchers worldwide, and many DE variants proposed in the last decades obtained excellent performance in many scientific and engineering applications. However, the vast majority of these well-performed DE variants employ binomial crossover rather than exponential crossover in generating trial vector candidates though both of the two schemes were proposed simultaneously. That may be also the reason why there still doesn't exist such a thorough analysis of DE with exponential crossover. Different from the majority of DE researchers believing that DE variants with binomial crossover usually exhibit superior performance than the ones employing exponential crossover and DE variants with exponential crossover are good at tackling optimization problems with linkages among neighboring variables, we found that DE variants with exponential crossover can achieve competitive performance with the ones employing binomial crossover regardless of whether there are linkages among the variables or not after discovering the proper crossover rate $CR$ and its corresponding parameter control. In order to enrich research of DE on exponential crossover, this paper presents an thorough experimental analysis of DE algorithm with exponential crossover in numerical optimization, presenting the basic concepts of exponential crossover, giving the mathematical analysis why they can actually achieve similar optimization between exponential crossover and binomial crossover, experimental validation under the 100 benchmark functions from CEC2013, CEC2014, CEC2017, CEC2022 test suites as well as the tension/compression spring design problem, and summarizing and classifying various engineering applications that exponential crossover DEs are used to solve. Furthermore, we also look into the future challenges and potential directions for further development of DE with exponential crossover.
Approximate computing is an evolving paradigm that aims to improve the power, speed, and area in neural network applications that can tolerate errors up to a specific limit. This letter proposes a new multiplier archi...
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Approximate computing is an evolving paradigm that aims to improve the power, speed, and area in neural network applications that can tolerate errors up to a specific limit. This letter proposes a new multiplier architecture based on the algorithm that adapts the approximate compressor from the existing and proposed compressors' set to reduce error in the respective partial product columns. Further, the error due to the approximation in the proposed multiplier is corrected using a simple error-correcting module. Results prove that the power and power-delay product (PDP) of an 8-bit multiplier is improved by up to 39.9% and 43.6% compared with the exact multiplier and 27.5% and 23.9% compared to similar previous designs. The proposed multiplier is validated using image processing and neural network applications to prove its efficacy.
Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) has found successful applications in interferometric inverse synthetic aperture radar (InISAR) imaging, especially in the presence of limited number of pulses or when using sparse apertu...
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Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) has found successful applications in interferometric inverse synthetic aperture radar (InISAR) imaging, especially in the presence of limited number of pulses or when using sparse apertures. SBL-based InISAR algorithms have been proven to be significantly superior to Fourier transform-based ones. However, the existing SBL-based algorithms are slow due to their high computational complexity. Moreover, there is also much room to improve in terms of imaging performance. In this article, leveraging the approximate message passing with unitary transformation (UAMP), we propose an InISAR imaging algorithm named UAMP joint sparse recovery (JSR), which is much faster and delivers notably higher imaging accuracy than the existing SBL-based algorithms. Specifically, we develop a type-2 joint sparse model for InISAR imaging and formulate it as a two-layer multiple measurement vectors joint sparse problem. Based on a factor graph representation, the message passing techniques are used to efficiently solve this problem, which leads to the UAMP-JSR algorithm. Results based on extensive simulations and experiments based on the real data collected by the Pisa Radar demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm compared to existing algorithms.
Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation constitutes a promising technology for high-mobility scenarios. However, the detection of OTFS systems imposes substantial complexity. Hence, we propose a novel orthog...
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Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation constitutes a promising technology for high-mobility scenarios. However, the detection of OTFS systems imposes substantial complexity. Hence, we propose a novel orthogonal block (OB) based detection scheme for significantly reducing the OTFS detection complexity without any performance loss with integer Doppler shifts. This is achieved by recognizing that the received signal can be partitioned into multiple parallel orthogonal blocks. Therefore, the detection of data symbols within an orthogonal block only depends on the signals received within this orthogonal block with reduced dimension. Explicitly, we propose a graph theory based orthogonal block identification algorithm, which models the relationship between the received signal and the original information symbols as a bipartite graph, where a depth first search (DFS) algorithm is invoked for partitioning the received signals into orthogonal blocks. For each orthogonal block, the existing detection algorithms can be used. Since the size of orthogonal blocks may be much lower than that of the original received signals, the detection complexity can be significantly reduced. For example, the complexity of the OB based MMSE detector is approximately a factor 4096 lower than that of the traditional MMSE detector for a channel having two paths.
The quantiles are very important as a statistic that gives an overview of big data. In this paper, we study the GK algorithm for finding ϵ-approximate quantiles and point out its redundancy hidden the quantile summary...
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The existing sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) and pattern coupled sparse Bayesian learning (PCSBL) multiuser detection (MUD) algorithms for grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) have high computational com...
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The existing sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) and pattern coupled sparse Bayesian learning (PCSBL) multiuser detection (MUD) algorithms for grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) have high computational complexity, i.e. O(NK2), considering mainly the calculation of posterior distribution of the transmitted signals. In this paper, we embed generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) to SBL and PCSBL, and develop two efficient Bayesian learning algorithms for GF-NOMA systems, that is, generalized approximate message passing sparse Bayesian learning (GAMP-SBL) and generalized approximate message passing pattern coupled sparse Bayesian learning (GAMP-PCSBL). It is shown that the Bayesian algorithms can significantly reduce the computational complexity fromO(NK2) toO(NK). Simulation results show that these two low complexity detectors still have superior recovery performance than the conventional MUD methods, and nearly have the same performance compared with SBL and PCSBL.
We show that the Unconstrained Traveling Tournament Problem (UTTP) is APX-complete by giving an L-reduction from the following version of (1,2)-TSP: Given a complete graph on m nodes with edge costs of one or two, fin...
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We show that the Unconstrained Traveling Tournament Problem (UTTP) is APX-complete by giving an L-reduction from the following version of (1,2)-TSP: Given a complete graph on m nodes with edge costs of one or two, find a Hamiltonian cycle C that minimizes the objective m(m + 1) & sigma;{cost(ij) : ij & ISIN;C}. Our analysis gives an inapproximability threshold of 1 + ((& alpha;- 1)/200) for UTTP, where & alpha;denotes the inapproximability threshold for (1,2)-TSP.& COPY;2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The problem of charge scheduling of Electric Vehicles (EVs) at charging stations remains one of the significant challenges due to high charging time and insufficient charging infrastructure leading to unfulfilled dema...
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The problem of charge scheduling of Electric Vehicles (EVs) at charging stations remains one of the significant challenges due to high charging time and insufficient charging infrastructure leading to unfulfilled demands. Moreover, most public charging stations (CSs) are equipped with charging ports that serve only a fixed charging rate. The installation of adaptable ports, that can vary their rate of charging with time, has been observed to alleviate these challenges. Hence, we propose an efficient EV charge scheduling plan, for a CS equipped with adaptable charging ports, to improve its performance. The CS aims at maximizing not only its profit but also its total customer satisfaction. Also, it is assumed that, upon being unable to fulfill their total energy demands, the CS pays an incentive to the EV owners. Such incentives reduce the profit margins of the CSs. Hence, we formulate a bi-objective optimization EV scheduling model that drives the CSs toward maximizing their profit and customer satisfaction. Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) solver and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) evolutionary algorithm are used to obtain the optimal and approximate Pareto fronts respectively. We further propose a charging action replacement-based heuristic approach to speed up the process of obtaining an approximate set of non-dominated solutions. We run several simulations and observe that the proposed algorithm results in a near-optimal set of solutions compared to the actual Pareto front with a much less computation time.
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