--- _id: '6725' abstract: - lang: eng text: "A Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) provides a common framework that can express a wide range of discrete optimization problems. A VCSP instance is given by a finite set of variables, a finite domain of labels, and an objective function to be minimized. This function is represented as a sum of terms where each term depends on a subset of the variables. To obtain different classes of optimization problems, one can restrict all terms to come from a fixed set Γ of cost functions, called a language. \r\nRecent breakthrough results have established a complete complexity classification of such classes with respect to language Γ: if all cost functions in Γ satisfy a certain algebraic condition then all Γ-instances can be solved in polynomial time, otherwise the problem is NP-hard. Unfortunately, testing this condition for a given language Γ is known to be NP-hard. We thus study exponential algorithms for this meta-problem. We show that the tractability condition of a finite-valued language Γ can be tested in O(3‾√3|D|⋅poly(size(Γ))) time, where D is the domain of Γ and poly(⋅) is some fixed polynomial. We also obtain a matching lower bound under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH). More precisely, we prove that for any constant δ<1 there is no O(3‾√3δ|D|) algorithm, assuming that SETH holds." alternative_title: - LIPIcs author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Kolmogorov V. Testing the complexity of a valued CSP language. In: 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. Vol 132. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2019:77:1-77:12. doi:10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2019.77' apa: 'Kolmogorov, V. (2019). Testing the complexity of a valued CSP language. In 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (Vol. 132, p. 77:1-77:12). Patras, Greece: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2019.77' chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Testing the Complexity of a Valued CSP Language.” In 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, 132:77:1-77:12. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2019.77. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “Testing the complexity of a valued CSP language,” in 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Patras, Greece, 2019, vol. 132, p. 77:1-77:12. ista: 'Kolmogorov V. 2019. Testing the complexity of a valued CSP language. 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2019: International Colloquim on Automata, Languages and Programming, LIPIcs, vol. 132, 77:1-77:12.' mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Testing the Complexity of a Valued CSP Language.” 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, vol. 132, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019, p. 77:1-77:12, doi:10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2019.77. short: V. Kolmogorov, in:, 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019, p. 77:1-77:12. conference: end_date: 2019-07-12 location: Patras, Greece name: 'ICALP 2019: International Colloquim on Automata, Languages and Programming' start_date: 2019-07-08 date_created: 2019-07-29T12:23:29Z date_published: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:08:40Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2019.77 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1803.02289' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f5ebee8eec6ae09e30365578ee63a492 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-07-31T07:01:45Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:38Z file_id: '6738' file_name: 2019_LIPICS_Kolmogorov.pdf file_size: 575475 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:38Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 132' language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 77:1-77:12 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-95977-109-2 issn: - 1868-8969 publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Testing the complexity of a valued CSP language tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 132 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6596' abstract: - lang: eng text: It is well known that many problems in image recovery, signal processing, and machine learning can be modeled as finding zeros of the sum of maximal monotone and Lipschitz continuous monotone operators. Many papers have studied forward-backward splitting methods for finding zeros of the sum of two monotone operators in Hilbert spaces. Most of the proposed splitting methods in the literature have been proposed for the sum of maximal monotone and inverse-strongly monotone operators in Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we consider splitting methods for finding zeros of the sum of maximal monotone operators and Lipschitz continuous monotone operators in Banach spaces. We obtain weak and strong convergence results for the zeros of the sum of maximal monotone and Lipschitz continuous monotone operators in Banach spaces. Many already studied problems in the literature can be considered as special cases of this paper. article_number: '138' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Yekini full_name: Shehu, Yekini id: 3FC7CB58-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Shehu orcid: 0000-0001-9224-7139 citation: ama: Shehu Y. Convergence results of forward-backward algorithms for sum of monotone operators in Banach spaces. Results in Mathematics. 2019;74(4). doi:10.1007/s00025-019-1061-4 apa: Shehu, Y. (2019). Convergence results of forward-backward algorithms for sum of monotone operators in Banach spaces. Results in Mathematics. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-019-1061-4 chicago: Shehu, Yekini. “Convergence Results of Forward-Backward Algorithms for Sum of Monotone Operators in Banach Spaces.” Results in Mathematics. Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-019-1061-4. ieee: Y. Shehu, “Convergence results of forward-backward algorithms for sum of monotone operators in Banach spaces,” Results in Mathematics, vol. 74, no. 4. Springer, 2019. ista: Shehu Y. 2019. Convergence results of forward-backward algorithms for sum of monotone operators in Banach spaces. Results in Mathematics. 74(4), 138. mla: Shehu, Yekini. “Convergence Results of Forward-Backward Algorithms for Sum of Monotone Operators in Banach Spaces.” Results in Mathematics, vol. 74, no. 4, 138, Springer, 2019, doi:10.1007/s00025-019-1061-4. short: Y. Shehu, Results in Mathematics 74 (2019). date_created: 2019-06-29T10:11:30Z date_published: 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-28T12:26:22Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/s00025-019-1061-4 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2101.09068' isi: - '000473237500002' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c6d18cb1e16fc0c36a0e0f30b4ebbc2d content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-07-03T15:20:40Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:34Z file_id: '6605' file_name: Springer_2019_Shehu.pdf file_size: 466942 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:34Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 74' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' - _id: B67AFEDC-15C9-11EA-A837-991A96BB2854 name: IST Austria Open Access Fund publication: Results in Mathematics publication_identifier: eissn: - 1420-9012 issn: - 1422-6383 publication_status: published publisher: Springer quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Convergence results of forward-backward algorithms for sum of monotone operators in Banach spaces tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 74 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7000' abstract: - lang: eng text: The main contributions of this paper are the proposition and the convergence analysis of a class of inertial projection-type algorithm for solving variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces where the underline operator is monotone and uniformly continuous. We carry out a unified analysis of the proposed method under very mild assumptions. In particular, weak convergence of the generated sequence is established and nonasymptotic O(1 / n) rate of convergence is established, where n denotes the iteration counter. We also present some experimental results to illustrate the profits gained by introducing the inertial extrapolation steps. article_number: '161' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Yekini full_name: Shehu, Yekini id: 3FC7CB58-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Shehu orcid: 0000-0001-9224-7139 - first_name: Olaniyi S. full_name: Iyiola, Olaniyi S. last_name: Iyiola - first_name: Xiao-Huan full_name: Li, Xiao-Huan last_name: Li - first_name: Qiao-Li full_name: Dong, Qiao-Li last_name: Dong citation: ama: Shehu Y, Iyiola OS, Li X-H, Dong Q-L. Convergence analysis of projection method for variational inequalities. Computational and Applied Mathematics. 2019;38(4). doi:10.1007/s40314-019-0955-9 apa: Shehu, Y., Iyiola, O. S., Li, X.-H., & Dong, Q.-L. (2019). Convergence analysis of projection method for variational inequalities. Computational and Applied Mathematics. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-019-0955-9 chicago: Shehu, Yekini, Olaniyi S. Iyiola, Xiao-Huan Li, and Qiao-Li Dong. “Convergence Analysis of Projection Method for Variational Inequalities.” Computational and Applied Mathematics. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-019-0955-9. ieee: Y. Shehu, O. S. Iyiola, X.-H. Li, and Q.-L. Dong, “Convergence analysis of projection method for variational inequalities,” Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 38, no. 4. Springer Nature, 2019. ista: Shehu Y, Iyiola OS, Li X-H, Dong Q-L. 2019. Convergence analysis of projection method for variational inequalities. Computational and Applied Mathematics. 38(4), 161. mla: Shehu, Yekini, et al. “Convergence Analysis of Projection Method for Variational Inequalities.” Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 38, no. 4, 161, Springer Nature, 2019, doi:10.1007/s40314-019-0955-9. short: Y. Shehu, O.S. Iyiola, X.-H. Li, Q.-L. Dong, Computational and Applied Mathematics 38 (2019). date_created: 2019-11-12T12:41:44Z date_published: 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-30T07:20:32Z day: '01' ddc: - '510' - '515' - '518' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/s40314-019-0955-9 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2101.09081' isi: - '000488973100005' has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 38' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-019-0955-9 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: Computational and Applied Mathematics publication_identifier: eissn: - 1807-0302 issn: - 2238-3603 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Convergence analysis of projection method for variational inequalities type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 38 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7412' abstract: - lang: eng text: We develop a framework for the rigorous analysis of focused stochastic local search algorithms. These algorithms search a state space by repeatedly selecting some constraint that is violated in the current state and moving to a random nearby state that addresses the violation, while (we hope) not introducing many new violations. An important class of focused local search algorithms with provable performance guarantees has recently arisen from algorithmizations of the Lovász local lemma (LLL), a nonconstructive tool for proving the existence of satisfying states by introducing a background measure on the state space. While powerful, the state transitions of algorithms in this class must be, in a precise sense, perfectly compatible with the background measure. In many applications this is a very restrictive requirement, and one needs to step outside the class. Here we introduce the notion of measure distortion and develop a framework for analyzing arbitrary focused stochastic local search algorithms, recovering LLL algorithmizations as the special case of no distortion. Our framework takes as input an arbitrary algorithm of such type and an arbitrary probability measure and shows how to use the measure as a yardstick of algorithmic progress, even for algorithms designed independently of the measure. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Dimitris full_name: Achlioptas, Dimitris last_name: Achlioptas - first_name: Fotis full_name: Iliopoulos, Fotis last_name: Iliopoulos - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: Achlioptas D, Iliopoulos F, Kolmogorov V. A local lemma for focused stochastical algorithms. SIAM Journal on Computing. 2019;48(5):1583-1602. doi:10.1137/16m109332x apa: Achlioptas, D., Iliopoulos, F., & Kolmogorov, V. (2019). A local lemma for focused stochastical algorithms. SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/16m109332x chicago: Achlioptas, Dimitris, Fotis Iliopoulos, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “A Local Lemma for Focused Stochastical Algorithms.” SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1137/16m109332x. ieee: D. Achlioptas, F. Iliopoulos, and V. Kolmogorov, “A local lemma for focused stochastical algorithms,” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 48, no. 5. SIAM, pp. 1583–1602, 2019. ista: Achlioptas D, Iliopoulos F, Kolmogorov V. 2019. A local lemma for focused stochastical algorithms. SIAM Journal on Computing. 48(5), 1583–1602. mla: Achlioptas, Dimitris, et al. “A Local Lemma for Focused Stochastical Algorithms.” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 48, no. 5, SIAM, 2019, pp. 1583–602, doi:10.1137/16m109332x. short: D. Achlioptas, F. Iliopoulos, V. Kolmogorov, SIAM Journal on Computing 48 (2019) 1583–1602. date_created: 2020-01-30T09:27:32Z date_published: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-06T15:25:29Z day: '31' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1137/16m109332x ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1809.01537' isi: - '000493900200005' intvolume: ' 48' isi: 1 issue: '5' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01537 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1583-1602 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: SIAM Journal on Computing publication_identifier: eissn: - 1095-7111 issn: - 0097-5397 publication_status: published publisher: SIAM quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A local lemma for focused stochastical algorithms type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 48 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7468' abstract: - lang: eng text: We present a new proximal bundle method for Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) inference in structured energy minimization problems. The method optimizes a Lagrangean relaxation of the original energy minimization problem using a multi plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe method that takes advantage of the specific structure of the Lagrangean decomposition. We show empirically that our method outperforms state-of-the-art Lagrangean decomposition based algorithms on some challenging Markov Random Field, multi-label discrete tomography and graph matching problems. article_number: 11138-11147 article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Swoboda P, Kolmogorov V. Map inference via block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Vol 2019-June. IEEE; 2019. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2019.01140' apa: 'Swoboda, P., & Kolmogorov, V. (2019). Map inference via block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Vol. 2019–June). Long Beach, CA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2019.01140' chicago: Swoboda, Paul, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Map Inference via Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithm.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2019–June. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2019.01140. ieee: P. Swoboda and V. Kolmogorov, “Map inference via block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Long Beach, CA, United States, 2019, vol. 2019–June. ista: 'Swoboda P, Kolmogorov V. 2019. Map inference via block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition vol. 2019–June, 11138–11147.' mla: Swoboda, Paul, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Map Inference via Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithm.” Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2019–June, 11138–11147, IEEE, 2019, doi:10.1109/CVPR.2019.01140. short: P. Swoboda, V. Kolmogorov, in:, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-06-20 location: Long Beach, CA, United States name: 'CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition' start_date: 2019-06-15 date_created: 2020-02-09T23:00:52Z date_published: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T14:54:24Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.01140 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1806.05049' isi: - '000542649304076' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05049 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781728132938' issn: - '10636919' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Map inference via block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2019-June year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7639' abstract: - lang: eng text: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become increasingly important due to their excellent empirical performance on a wide range of problems. However, regularization is generally achieved by indirect means, largely due to the complex set of functions defined by a network and the difficulty in measuring function complexity. There exists no method in the literature for additive regularization based on a norm of the function, as is classically considered in statistical learning theory. In this work, we study the tractability of function norms for deep neural networks with ReLU activations. We provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first proof in the literature of the NP-hardness of computing function norms of DNNs of 3 or more layers. We also highlight a fundamental difference between shallow and deep networks. In the light on these results, we propose a new regularization strategy based on approximate function norms, and show its efficiency on a segmentation task with a DNN. article_number: 748-752 article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Amal full_name: Rannen-Triki, Amal last_name: Rannen-Triki - first_name: Maxim full_name: Berman, Maxim last_name: Berman - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Matthew B. full_name: Blaschko, Matthew B. last_name: Blaschko citation: ama: 'Rannen-Triki A, Berman M, Kolmogorov V, Blaschko MB. Function norms for neural networks. In: Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop. IEEE; 2019. doi:10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00097' apa: 'Rannen-Triki, A., Berman, M., Kolmogorov, V., & Blaschko, M. B. (2019). Function norms for neural networks. In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop. Seoul, South Korea: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00097' chicago: Rannen-Triki, Amal, Maxim Berman, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Matthew B. Blaschko. “Function Norms for Neural Networks.” In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00097. ieee: A. Rannen-Triki, M. Berman, V. Kolmogorov, and M. B. Blaschko, “Function norms for neural networks,” in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, Seoul, South Korea, 2019. ista: 'Rannen-Triki A, Berman M, Kolmogorov V, Blaschko MB. 2019. Function norms for neural networks. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop. ICCVW: International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, 748–752.' mla: Rannen-Triki, Amal, et al. “Function Norms for Neural Networks.” Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, 748–752, IEEE, 2019, doi:10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00097. short: A. Rannen-Triki, M. Berman, V. Kolmogorov, M.B. Blaschko, in:, Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, IEEE, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-10-28 location: Seoul, South Korea name: 'ICCVW: International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop' start_date: 2019-10-27 date_created: 2020-04-05T22:00:50Z date_published: 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-08T11:19:12Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00097 external_id: isi: - '000554591600090' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa_version: None publication: Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781728150239' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Function norms for neural networks type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '703' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the NP-hard problem of MAP-inference for undirected discrete graphical models. We propose a polynomial time and practically efficient algorithm for finding a part of its optimal solution. Specifically, our algorithm marks some labels of the considered graphical model either as (i) optimal, meaning that they belong to all optimal solutions of the inference problem; (ii) non-optimal if they provably do not belong to any solution. With access to an exact solver of a linear programming relaxation to the MAP-inference problem, our algorithm marks the maximal possible (in a specified sense) number of labels. We also present a version of the algorithm, which has access to a suboptimal dual solver only and still can ensure the (non-)optimality for the marked labels, although the overall number of the marked labels may decrease. We propose an efficient implementation, which runs in time comparable to a single run of a suboptimal dual solver. Our method is well-scalable and shows state-of-the-art results on computational benchmarks from machine learning and computer vision. author: - first_name: Alexander full_name: Shekhovtsov, Alexander last_name: Shekhovtsov - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Bogdan full_name: Savchynskyy, Bogdan last_name: Savchynskyy citation: ama: Shekhovtsov A, Swoboda P, Savchynskyy B. Maximum persistency via iterative relaxed inference with graphical models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 2018;40(7):1668-1682. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2730884 apa: Shekhovtsov, A., Swoboda, P., & Savchynskyy, B. (2018). Maximum persistency via iterative relaxed inference with graphical models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2730884 chicago: Shekhovtsov, Alexander, Paul Swoboda, and Bogdan Savchynskyy. “Maximum Persistency via Iterative Relaxed Inference with Graphical Models.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2730884. ieee: A. Shekhovtsov, P. Swoboda, and B. Savchynskyy, “Maximum persistency via iterative relaxed inference with graphical models,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 40, no. 7. IEEE, pp. 1668–1682, 2018. ista: Shekhovtsov A, Swoboda P, Savchynskyy B. 2018. Maximum persistency via iterative relaxed inference with graphical models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 40(7), 1668–1682. mla: Shekhovtsov, Alexander, et al. “Maximum Persistency via Iterative Relaxed Inference with Graphical Models.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 40, no. 7, IEEE, 2018, pp. 1668–82, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2730884. short: A. Shekhovtsov, P. Swoboda, B. Savchynskyy, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 40 (2018) 1668–1682. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:48:01Z date_published: 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:11:32Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2730884 external_id: arxiv: - '1508.07902' intvolume: ' 40' issue: '7' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07902 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1668-1682 publication: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence publication_identifier: issn: - '01628828' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '6992' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Maximum persistency via iterative relaxed inference with graphical models type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 40 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '10864' abstract: - lang: eng text: We prove that every congruence distributive variety has directed Jónsson terms, and every congruence modular variety has directed Gumm terms. The directed terms we construct witness every case of absorption witnessed by the original Jónsson or Gumm terms. This result is equivalent to a pair of claims about absorption for admissible preorders in congruence distributive and congruence modular varieties, respectively. For finite algebras, these absorption theorems have already seen significant applications, but until now, it was not clear if the theorems hold for general algebras as well. Our method also yields a novel proof of a result by P. Lipparini about the existence of a chain of terms (which we call Pixley terms) in varieties that are at the same time congruence distributive and k-permutable for some k. acknowledgement: The second author was supported by National Science Center grant DEC-2011-/01/B/ST6/01006. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Alexandr full_name: Kazda, Alexandr id: 3B32BAA8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kazda - first_name: Marcin full_name: Kozik, Marcin last_name: Kozik - first_name: Ralph full_name: McKenzie, Ralph last_name: McKenzie - first_name: Matthew full_name: Moore, Matthew last_name: Moore citation: ama: 'Kazda A, Kozik M, McKenzie R, Moore M. Absorption and directed Jónsson terms. In: Czelakowski J, ed. Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science. Vol 16. OCTR. Cham: Springer Nature; 2018:203-220. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74772-9_7' apa: 'Kazda, A., Kozik, M., McKenzie, R., & Moore, M. (2018). Absorption and directed Jónsson terms. In J. Czelakowski (Ed.), Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science (Vol. 16, pp. 203–220). Cham: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74772-9_7' chicago: 'Kazda, Alexandr, Marcin Kozik, Ralph McKenzie, and Matthew Moore. “Absorption and Directed Jónsson Terms.” In Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science, edited by J Czelakowski, 16:203–20. OCTR. Cham: Springer Nature, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74772-9_7.' ieee: 'A. Kazda, M. Kozik, R. McKenzie, and M. Moore, “Absorption and directed Jónsson terms,” in Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science, vol. 16, J. Czelakowski, Ed. Cham: Springer Nature, 2018, pp. 203–220.' ista: 'Kazda A, Kozik M, McKenzie R, Moore M. 2018.Absorption and directed Jónsson terms. In: Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science. vol. 16, 203–220.' mla: Kazda, Alexandr, et al. “Absorption and Directed Jónsson Terms.” Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science, edited by J Czelakowski, vol. 16, Springer Nature, 2018, pp. 203–20, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74772-9_7. short: A. Kazda, M. Kozik, R. McKenzie, M. Moore, in:, J. Czelakowski (Ed.), Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science, Springer Nature, Cham, 2018, pp. 203–220. date_created: 2022-03-18T10:30:32Z date_published: 2018-03-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-05T15:37:18Z day: '21' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74772-9_7 editor: - first_name: J full_name: Czelakowski, J last_name: Czelakowski external_id: arxiv: - '1502.01072' intvolume: ' 16' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01072 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 203-220 place: Cham publication: Don Pigozzi on Abstract Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, and Computer Science publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783319747729' eissn: - 2211-2766 isbn: - '9783319747712' issn: - 2211-2758 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' series_title: OCTR status: public title: Absorption and directed Jónsson terms type: book_chapter user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 16 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '273' abstract: - lang: eng text: The accuracy of information retrieval systems is often measured using complex loss functions such as the average precision (AP) or the normalized discounted cumulative gain (NDCG). Given a set of positive and negative samples, the parameters of a retrieval system can be estimated by minimizing these loss functions. However, the non-differentiability and non-decomposability of these loss functions does not allow for simple gradient based optimization algorithms. This issue is generally circumvented by either optimizing a structured hinge-loss upper bound to the loss function or by using asymptotic methods like the direct-loss minimization framework. Yet, the high computational complexity of loss-augmented inference, which is necessary for both the frameworks, prohibits its use in large training data sets. To alleviate this deficiency, we present a novel quicksort flavored algorithm for a large class of non-decomposable loss functions. We provide a complete characterization of the loss functions that are amenable to our algorithm, and show that it includes both AP and NDCG based loss functions. Furthermore, we prove that no comparison based algorithm can improve upon the computational complexity of our approach asymptotically. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in the context of optimizing the structured hinge loss upper bound of AP and NDCG loss for learning models for a variety of vision tasks. We show that our approach provides significantly better results than simpler decomposable loss functions, while requiring a comparable training time. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pritish full_name: Mohapatra, Pritish last_name: Mohapatra - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek - first_name: C V full_name: Jawahar, C V last_name: Jawahar - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: M Pawan full_name: Kumar, M Pawan last_name: Kumar citation: ama: 'Mohapatra P, Rolinek M, Jawahar CV, Kolmogorov V, Kumar MP. Efficient optimization for rank-based loss functions. In: 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE; 2018:3693-3701. doi:10.1109/cvpr.2018.00389' apa: 'Mohapatra, P., Rolinek, M., Jawahar, C. V., Kolmogorov, V., & Kumar, M. P. (2018). Efficient optimization for rank-based loss functions. In 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 3693–3701). Salt Lake City, UT, USA: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2018.00389' chicago: Mohapatra, Pritish, Michal Rolinek, C V Jawahar, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and M Pawan Kumar. “Efficient Optimization for Rank-Based Loss Functions.” In 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 3693–3701. IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2018.00389. ieee: P. Mohapatra, M. Rolinek, C. V. Jawahar, V. Kolmogorov, and M. P. Kumar, “Efficient optimization for rank-based loss functions,” in 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2018, pp. 3693–3701. ista: 'Mohapatra P, Rolinek M, Jawahar CV, Kolmogorov V, Kumar MP. 2018. Efficient optimization for rank-based loss functions. 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 3693–3701.' mla: Mohapatra, Pritish, et al. “Efficient Optimization for Rank-Based Loss Functions.” 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, 2018, pp. 3693–701, doi:10.1109/cvpr.2018.00389. short: P. Mohapatra, M. Rolinek, C.V. Jawahar, V. Kolmogorov, M.P. Kumar, in:, 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, 2018, pp. 3693–3701. conference: end_date: 2018-06-22 location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA name: 'CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition' start_date: 2018-06-18 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:33Z date_published: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T13:24:43Z day: '28' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/cvpr.2018.00389 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1604.08269' isi: - '000457843603087' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08269 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 3693-3701 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781538664209' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Efficient optimization for rank-based loss functions type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '193' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We show attacks on five data-independent memory-hard functions (iMHF) that were submitted to the password hashing competition (PHC). Informally, an MHF is a function which cannot be evaluated on dedicated hardware, like ASICs, at significantly lower hardware and/or energy cost than evaluating a single instance on a standard single-core architecture. Data-independent means the memory access pattern of the function is independent of the input; this makes iMHFs harder to construct than data-dependent ones, but the latter can be attacked by various side-channel attacks. Following [Alwen-Blocki''16], we capture the evaluation of an iMHF as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The cumulative parallel pebbling complexity of this DAG is a measure for the hardware cost of evaluating the iMHF on an ASIC. Ideally, one would like the complexity of a DAG underlying an iMHF to be as close to quadratic in the number of nodes of the graph as possible. Instead, we show that (the DAGs underlying) the following iMHFs are far from this bound: Rig.v2, TwoCats and Gambit each having an exponent no more than 1.75. Moreover, we show that the complexity of the iMHF modes of the PHC finalists Pomelo and Lyra2 have exponents at most 1.83 and 1.67 respectively. To show this we investigate a combinatorial property of each underlying DAG (called its depth-robustness. By establishing upper bounds on this property we are then able to apply the general technique of [Alwen-Block''16] for analyzing the hardware costs of an iMHF.' acknowledgement: Leonid Reyzin was supported in part by IST Austria and by US NSF grants 1012910, 1012798, and 1422965; this research was performed while he was visiting IST Austria. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Joel F full_name: Alwen, Joel F id: 2A8DFA8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Alwen - first_name: Peter full_name: Gazi, Peter last_name: Gazi - first_name: Chethan full_name: Kamath Hosdurg, Chethan id: 4BD3F30E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kamath Hosdurg - first_name: Karen full_name: Klein, Karen id: 3E83A2F8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Klein - first_name: Georg F full_name: Osang, Georg F id: 464B40D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Osang orcid: 0000-0002-8882-5116 - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 - first_name: Lenoid full_name: Reyzin, Lenoid last_name: Reyzin - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek - first_name: Michal full_name: Rybar, Michal id: 2B3E3DE8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rybar citation: ama: 'Alwen JF, Gazi P, Kamath Hosdurg C, et al. On the memory hardness of data independent password hashing functions. In: Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security. ACM; 2018:51-65. doi:10.1145/3196494.3196534' apa: 'Alwen, J. F., Gazi, P., Kamath Hosdurg, C., Klein, K., Osang, G. F., Pietrzak, K. Z., … Rybar, M. (2018). On the memory hardness of data independent password hashing functions. In Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security (pp. 51–65). Incheon, Republic of Korea: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196494.3196534' chicago: Alwen, Joel F, Peter Gazi, Chethan Kamath Hosdurg, Karen Klein, Georg F Osang, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, Lenoid Reyzin, Michal Rolinek, and Michal Rybar. “On the Memory Hardness of Data Independent Password Hashing Functions.” In Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security, 51–65. ACM, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196494.3196534. ieee: J. F. Alwen et al., “On the memory hardness of data independent password hashing functions,” in Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 2018, pp. 51–65. ista: 'Alwen JF, Gazi P, Kamath Hosdurg C, Klein K, Osang GF, Pietrzak KZ, Reyzin L, Rolinek M, Rybar M. 2018. On the memory hardness of data independent password hashing functions. Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security. ASIACCS: Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , 51–65.' mla: Alwen, Joel F., et al. “On the Memory Hardness of Data Independent Password Hashing Functions.” Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security, ACM, 2018, pp. 51–65, doi:10.1145/3196494.3196534. short: J.F. Alwen, P. Gazi, C. Kamath Hosdurg, K. Klein, G.F. Osang, K.Z. Pietrzak, L. Reyzin, M. Rolinek, M. Rybar, in:, Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security, ACM, 2018, pp. 51–65. conference: end_date: 2018-06-08 location: Incheon, Republic of Korea name: 'ASIACCS: Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security ' start_date: 2018-06-04 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:07Z date_published: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:13:12Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrPi - _id: HeEd - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1145/3196494.3196534 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000516620100005' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/783 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 51 - 65 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' - _id: 258AA5B2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '682815' name: Teaching Old Crypto New Tricks publication: Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communication Security publication_status: published publisher: ACM publist_id: '7723' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On the memory hardness of data independent password hashing functions type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5975' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the recent formulation of the algorithmic Lov ́asz Local Lemma [N. Har-vey and J. Vondr ́ak, inProceedings of FOCS, 2015, pp. 1327–1345; D. Achlioptas and F. Iliopoulos,inProceedings of SODA, 2016, pp. 2024–2038; D. Achlioptas, F. Iliopoulos, and V. Kolmogorov,ALocal Lemma for Focused Stochastic Algorithms, arXiv preprint, 2018] for finding objects that avoid“bad features,” or “flaws.” It extends the Moser–Tardos resampling algorithm [R. A. Moser andG. Tardos,J. ACM, 57 (2010), 11] to more general discrete spaces. At each step the method picks aflaw present in the current state and goes to a new state according to some prespecified probabilitydistribution (which depends on the current state and the selected flaw). However, the recent formu-lation is less flexible than the Moser–Tardos method since it requires a specific flaw selection rule,whereas the algorithm of Moser and Tardos allows an arbitrary rule (and thus can potentially beimplemented more efficiently). We formulate a new “commutativity” condition and prove that it issufficient for an arbitrary rule to work. It also enables an efficient parallelization under an additionalassumption. We then show that existing resampling oracles for perfect matchings and permutationsdo satisfy this condition. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: Kolmogorov V. Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovász local lemma. SIAM Journal on Computing. 2018;47(6):2029-2056. doi:10.1137/16m1093306 apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2018). Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovász local lemma. SIAM Journal on Computing. Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM). https://doi.org/10.1137/16m1093306 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Commutativity in the Algorithmic Lovász Local Lemma.” SIAM Journal on Computing. Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2018. https://doi.org/10.1137/16m1093306. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovász local lemma,” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 47, no. 6. Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), pp. 2029–2056, 2018. ista: Kolmogorov V. 2018. Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovász local lemma. SIAM Journal on Computing. 47(6), 2029–2056. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Commutativity in the Algorithmic Lovász Local Lemma.” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 47, no. 6, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2018, pp. 2029–56, doi:10.1137/16m1093306. short: V. Kolmogorov, SIAM Journal on Computing 47 (2018) 2029–2056. date_created: 2019-02-13T12:59:33Z date_published: 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:24:58Z day: '08' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1137/16m1093306 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1506.08547' isi: - '000453785100001' intvolume: ' 47' isi: 1 issue: '6' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08547 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 2029-2056 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: SIAM Journal on Computing publication_identifier: eissn: - 1095-7111 issn: - 0097-5397 publication_status: published publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1193' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovász local lemma type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 47 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5978' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider the MAP-inference problem for graphical models,which is a valued constraint satisfaction problem defined onreal numbers with a natural summation operation. We proposea family of relaxations (different from the famous Sherali-Adams hierarchy), which naturally define lower bounds for itsoptimum. This family always contains a tight relaxation andwe give an algorithm able to find it and therefore, solve theinitial non-relaxed NP-hard problem.The relaxations we consider decompose the original probleminto two non-overlapping parts: an easy LP-tight part and adifficult one. For the latter part a combinatorial solver must beused. As we show in our experiments, in a number of applica-tions the second, difficult part constitutes only a small fractionof the whole problem. This property allows to significantlyreduce the computational time of the combinatorial solver andtherefore solve problems which were out of reach before.' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Stefan full_name: Haller, Stefan last_name: Haller - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Bogdan full_name: Savchynskyy, Bogdan last_name: Savchynskyy citation: ama: 'Haller S, Swoboda P, Savchynskyy B. Exact MAP-inference by confining combinatorial search with LP relaxation. In: Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press; 2018:6581-6588.' apa: 'Haller, S., Swoboda, P., & Savchynskyy, B. (2018). Exact MAP-inference by confining combinatorial search with LP relaxation. In Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 6581–6588). New Orleans, LU, United States: AAAI Press.' chicago: Haller, Stefan, Paul Swoboda, and Bogdan Savchynskyy. “Exact MAP-Inference by Confining Combinatorial Search with LP Relaxation.” In Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 6581–88. AAAI Press, 2018. ieee: S. Haller, P. Swoboda, and B. Savchynskyy, “Exact MAP-inference by confining combinatorial search with LP relaxation,” in Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, LU, United States, 2018, pp. 6581–6588. ista: 'Haller S, Swoboda P, Savchynskyy B. 2018. Exact MAP-inference by confining combinatorial search with LP relaxation. Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 6581–6588.' mla: Haller, Stefan, et al. “Exact MAP-Inference by Confining Combinatorial Search with LP Relaxation.” Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2018, pp. 6581–88. short: S. Haller, P. Swoboda, B. Savchynskyy, in:, Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2018, pp. 6581–6588. conference: end_date: 2018-02-07 location: New Orleans, LU, United States name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2018-02-02 date_created: 2019-02-13T13:32:48Z date_published: 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:26:52Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo external_id: arxiv: - '2004.06370' isi: - '000485488906082' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06370 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 6581-6588 publication: Proceedings of the 32st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_status: published publisher: AAAI Press quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Exact MAP-inference by confining combinatorial search with LP relaxation type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '18' abstract: - lang: eng text: An N-superconcentrator is a directed, acyclic graph with N input nodes and N output nodes such that every subset of the inputs and every subset of the outputs of same cardinality can be connected by node-disjoint paths. It is known that linear-size and bounded-degree superconcentrators exist. We prove the existence of such superconcentrators with asymptotic density 25.3 (where the density is the number of edges divided by N). The previously best known densities were 28 [12] and 27.4136 [17]. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M. Superconcentrators of density 25.3. Ars Combinatoria. 2018;141(10):269-304. apa: Kolmogorov, V., & Rolinek, M. (2018). Superconcentrators of density 25.3. Ars Combinatoria. Charles Babbage Research Centre. chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Michal Rolinek. “Superconcentrators of Density 25.3.” Ars Combinatoria. Charles Babbage Research Centre, 2018. ieee: V. Kolmogorov and M. Rolinek, “Superconcentrators of density 25.3,” Ars Combinatoria, vol. 141, no. 10. Charles Babbage Research Centre, pp. 269–304, 2018. ista: Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M. 2018. Superconcentrators of density 25.3. Ars Combinatoria. 141(10), 269–304. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Michal Rolinek. “Superconcentrators of Density 25.3.” Ars Combinatoria, vol. 141, no. 10, Charles Babbage Research Centre, 2018, pp. 269–304. short: V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, Ars Combinatoria 141 (2018) 269–304. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:11Z date_published: 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:46:18Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo external_id: arxiv: - '1405.7828' isi: - '000446809500022' intvolume: ' 141' isi: 1 issue: '10' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7828 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 269 - 304 publication: Ars Combinatoria publication_identifier: issn: - 0381-7032 publication_status: published publisher: Charles Babbage Research Centre publist_id: '8037' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Superconcentrators of density 25.3 type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 141 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '6032' abstract: - lang: eng text: The main result of this article is a generalization of the classical blossom algorithm for finding perfect matchings. Our algorithm can efficiently solve Boolean CSPs where each variable appears in exactly two constraints (we call it edge CSP) and all constraints are even Δ-matroid relations (represented by lists of tuples). As a consequence of this, we settle the complexity classification of planar Boolean CSPs started by Dvorak and Kupec. Using a reduction to even Δ-matroids, we then extend the tractability result to larger classes of Δ-matroids that we call efficiently coverable. It properly includes classes that were known to be tractable before, namely, co-independent, compact, local, linear, and binary, with the following caveat:We represent Δ-matroids by lists of tuples, while the last two use a representation by matrices. Since an n ×n matrix can represent exponentially many tuples, our tractability result is not strictly stronger than the known algorithm for linear and binary Δ-matroids. article_number: '22' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Alexandr full_name: Kazda, Alexandr id: 3B32BAA8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kazda - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: Kazda A, Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M. Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar boolean CSPs. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 2018;15(2). doi:10.1145/3230649 apa: Kazda, A., Kolmogorov, V., & Rolinek, M. (2018). Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar boolean CSPs. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3230649 chicago: Kazda, Alexandr, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Michal Rolinek. “Even Delta-Matroids and the Complexity of Planar Boolean CSPs.” ACM Transactions on Algorithms. ACM, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3230649. ieee: A. Kazda, V. Kolmogorov, and M. Rolinek, “Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar boolean CSPs,” ACM Transactions on Algorithms, vol. 15, no. 2. ACM, 2018. ista: Kazda A, Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M. 2018. Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar boolean CSPs. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 15(2), 22. mla: Kazda, Alexandr, et al. “Even Delta-Matroids and the Complexity of Planar Boolean CSPs.” ACM Transactions on Algorithms, vol. 15, no. 2, 22, ACM, 2018, doi:10.1145/3230649. short: A. Kazda, V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, ACM Transactions on Algorithms 15 (2018). date_created: 2019-02-17T22:59:25Z date_published: 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-20T11:20:26Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1145/3230649 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1602.03124' isi: - '000468036500007' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03124 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: ACM Transactions on Algorithms publication_status: published publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1192' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar boolean CSPs type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 15 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '641' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We introduce two novel methods for learning parameters of graphical models for image labelling. The following two tasks underline both methods: (i) perturb model parameters based on given features and ground truth labelings, so as to exactly reproduce these labelings as optima of the local polytope relaxation of the labelling problem; (ii) train a predictor for the perturbed model parameters so that improved model parameters can be applied to the labelling of novel data. Our first method implements task (i) by inverse linear programming and task (ii) using a regressor e.g. a Gaussian process. Our second approach simultaneously solves tasks (i) and (ii) in a joint manner, while being restricted to linearly parameterised predictors. Experiments demonstrate the merits of both approaches.' alternative_title: - LNCS author: - first_name: Vera full_name: Trajkovska, Vera last_name: Trajkovska - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Freddie full_name: Åström, Freddie last_name: Åström - first_name: Stefanie full_name: Petra, Stefanie last_name: Petra citation: ama: 'Trajkovska V, Swoboda P, Åström F, Petra S. Graphical model parameter learning by inverse linear programming. In: Lauze F, Dong Y, Bjorholm Dahl A, eds. Vol 10302. Springer; 2017:323-334. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_26' apa: 'Trajkovska, V., Swoboda, P., Åström, F., & Petra, S. (2017). Graphical model parameter learning by inverse linear programming. In F. Lauze, Y. Dong, & A. Bjorholm Dahl (Eds.) (Vol. 10302, pp. 323–334). Presented at the SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Kolding, Denmark: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_26' chicago: Trajkovska, Vera, Paul Swoboda, Freddie Åström, and Stefanie Petra. “Graphical Model Parameter Learning by Inverse Linear Programming.” edited by François Lauze, Yiqiu Dong, and Anders Bjorholm Dahl, 10302:323–34. Springer, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_26. ieee: 'V. Trajkovska, P. Swoboda, F. Åström, and S. Petra, “Graphical model parameter learning by inverse linear programming,” presented at the SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Kolding, Denmark, 2017, vol. 10302, pp. 323–334.' ista: 'Trajkovska V, Swoboda P, Åström F, Petra S. 2017. Graphical model parameter learning by inverse linear programming. SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, LNCS, vol. 10302, 323–334.' mla: Trajkovska, Vera, et al. Graphical Model Parameter Learning by Inverse Linear Programming. Edited by François Lauze et al., vol. 10302, Springer, 2017, pp. 323–34, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_26. short: V. Trajkovska, P. Swoboda, F. Åström, S. Petra, in:, F. Lauze, Y. Dong, A. Bjorholm Dahl (Eds.), Springer, 2017, pp. 323–334. conference: end_date: 2017-06-08 location: Kolding, Denmark name: 'SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision' start_date: 2017-06-04 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:39Z date_published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:07:23Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_26 editor: - first_name: François full_name: Lauze, François last_name: Lauze - first_name: Yiqiu full_name: Dong, Yiqiu last_name: Dong - first_name: Anders full_name: Bjorholm Dahl, Anders last_name: Bjorholm Dahl intvolume: ' 10302' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa_version: None page: 323 - 334 publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-331958770-7 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7147' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Graphical model parameter learning by inverse linear programming type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 10302 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '644' abstract: - lang: eng text: An instance of the valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP) is given by a finite set of variables, a finite domain of labels, and a sum of functions, each function depending on a subset of the variables. Each function can take finite values specifying costs of assignments of labels to its variables or the infinite value, which indicates an infeasible assignment. The goal is to find an assignment of labels to the variables that minimizes the sum. We study, assuming that P 6= NP, how the complexity of this very general problem depends on the set of functions allowed in the instances, the so-called constraint language. The case when all allowed functions take values in f0;1g corresponds to ordinary CSPs, where one deals only with the feasibility issue, and there is no optimization. This case is the subject of the algebraic CSP dichotomy conjecture predicting for which constraint languages CSPs are tractable (i.e., solvable in polynomial time) and for which they are NP-hard. The case when all allowed functions take only finite values corresponds to a finitevalued CSP, where the feasibility aspect is trivial and one deals only with the optimization issue. The complexity of finite-valued CSPs was fully classified by Thapper and Živný. An algebraic necessary condition for tractability of a general-valued CSP with a fixed constraint language was recently given by Kozik and Ochremiak. As our main result, we prove that if a constraint language satisfies this algebraic necessary condition, and the feasibility CSP (i.e., the problem of deciding whether a given instance has a feasible solution) corresponding to the VCSP with this language is tractable, then the VCSP is tractable. The algorithm is a simple combination of the assumed algorithm for the feasibility CSP and the standard LP relaxation. As a corollary, we obtain that a dichotomy for ordinary CSPs would imply a dichotomy for general-valued CSPs. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Andrei full_name: Krokhin, Andrei last_name: Krokhin - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Krokhin A, Rolinek M. The complexity of general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. 2017;46(3):1087-1110. doi:10.1137/16M1091836 apa: Kolmogorov, V., Krokhin, A., & Rolinek, M. (2017). The complexity of general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1091836 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Andrei Krokhin, and Michal Rolinek. “The Complexity of General-Valued CSPs.” SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1091836. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, A. Krokhin, and M. Rolinek, “The complexity of general-valued CSPs,” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 46, no. 3. SIAM, pp. 1087–1110, 2017. ista: Kolmogorov V, Krokhin A, Rolinek M. 2017. The complexity of general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. 46(3), 1087–1110. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “The Complexity of General-Valued CSPs.” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 46, no. 3, SIAM, 2017, pp. 1087–110, doi:10.1137/16M1091836. short: V. Kolmogorov, A. Krokhin, M. Rolinek, SIAM Journal on Computing 46 (2017) 1087–1110. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:40Z date_published: 2017-06-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:07:49Z day: '29' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1137/16M1091836 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 46' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07327 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1087 - 1110 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: SIAM Journal on Computing publication_status: published publisher: SIAM publist_id: '7138' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1637' relation: other status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: The complexity of general-valued CSPs type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 46 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '646' abstract: - lang: eng text: We present a novel convex relaxation and a corresponding inference algorithm for the non-binary discrete tomography problem, that is, reconstructing discrete-valued images from few linear measurements. In contrast to state of the art approaches that split the problem into a continuous reconstruction problem for the linear measurement constraints and a discrete labeling problem to enforce discrete-valued reconstructions, we propose a joint formulation that addresses both problems simultaneously, resulting in a tighter convex relaxation. For this purpose a constrained graphical model is set up and evaluated using a novel relaxation optimized by dual decomposition. We evaluate our approach experimentally and show superior solutions both mathematically (tighter relaxation) and experimentally in comparison to previously proposed relaxations. alternative_title: - LNCS author: - first_name: Jan full_name: Kuske, Jan last_name: Kuske - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Stefanie full_name: Petra, Stefanie last_name: Petra citation: ama: 'Kuske J, Swoboda P, Petra S. A novel convex relaxation for non binary discrete tomography. In: Lauze F, Dong Y, Bjorholm Dahl A, eds. Vol 10302. Springer; 2017:235-246. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_19' apa: 'Kuske, J., Swoboda, P., & Petra, S. (2017). A novel convex relaxation for non binary discrete tomography. In F. Lauze, Y. Dong, & A. Bjorholm Dahl (Eds.) (Vol. 10302, pp. 235–246). Presented at the SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Kolding, Denmark: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_19' chicago: Kuske, Jan, Paul Swoboda, and Stefanie Petra. “A Novel Convex Relaxation for Non Binary Discrete Tomography.” edited by François Lauze, Yiqiu Dong, and Anders Bjorholm Dahl, 10302:235–46. Springer, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_19. ieee: 'J. Kuske, P. Swoboda, and S. Petra, “A novel convex relaxation for non binary discrete tomography,” presented at the SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Kolding, Denmark, 2017, vol. 10302, pp. 235–246.' ista: 'Kuske J, Swoboda P, Petra S. 2017. A novel convex relaxation for non binary discrete tomography. SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, LNCS, vol. 10302, 235–246.' mla: Kuske, Jan, et al. A Novel Convex Relaxation for Non Binary Discrete Tomography. Edited by François Lauze et al., vol. 10302, Springer, 2017, pp. 235–46, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_19. short: J. Kuske, P. Swoboda, S. Petra, in:, F. Lauze, Y. Dong, A. Bjorholm Dahl (Eds.), Springer, 2017, pp. 235–246. conference: end_date: 2017-06-08 location: Kolding, Denmark name: 'SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision' start_date: 2017-06-04 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:41Z date_published: 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:07:34Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_19 ec_funded: 1 editor: - first_name: François full_name: Lauze, François last_name: Lauze - first_name: Yiqiu full_name: Dong, Yiqiu last_name: Dong - first_name: Anders full_name: Bjorholm Dahl, Anders last_name: Bjorholm Dahl intvolume: ' 10302' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03769 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 235 - 246 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-331958770-7 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7132' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: A novel convex relaxation for non binary discrete tomography type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 10302 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '992' abstract: - lang: eng text: "An instance of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is given by a finite set of\r\nvariables, a finite domain of labels, and a set of constraints, each constraint acting on\r\na subset of the variables. The goal is to find an assignment of labels to its variables\r\nthat satisfies all constraints (or decide whether one exists). If we allow more general\r\n“soft” constraints, which come with (possibly infinite) costs of particular assignments,\r\nwe obtain instances from a richer class called Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem\r\n(VCSP). There the goal is to find an assignment with minimum total cost.\r\nIn this thesis, we focus (assuming that P\r\n6\r\n=\r\nNP) on classifying computational com-\r\nplexity of CSPs and VCSPs under certain restricting conditions. Two results are the core\r\ncontent of the work. In one of them, we consider VCSPs parametrized by a constraint\r\nlanguage, that is the set of “soft” constraints allowed to form the instances, and finish\r\nthe complexity classification modulo (missing pieces of) complexity classification for\r\nanalogously parametrized CSP. The other result is a generalization of Edmonds’ perfect\r\nmatching algorithm. This generalization contributes to complexity classfications in two\r\nways. First, it gives a new (largest known) polynomial-time solvable class of Boolean\r\nCSPs in which every variable may appear in at most two constraints and second, it\r\nsettles full classification of Boolean CSPs with planar drawing (again parametrized by a\r\nconstraint language)." acknowledgement: FP7/2007-2013/ERC grant agreement no 616160 alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: Rolinek M. Complexity of constraint satisfaction. 2017. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_815 apa: Rolinek, M. (2017). Complexity of constraint satisfaction. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_815 chicago: Rolinek, Michal. “Complexity of Constraint Satisfaction.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_815. ieee: M. Rolinek, “Complexity of constraint satisfaction,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. ista: Rolinek M. 2017. Complexity of constraint satisfaction. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Rolinek, Michal. Complexity of Constraint Satisfaction. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_815. short: M. Rolinek, Complexity of Constraint Satisfaction, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:35Z date_published: 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T12:05:41Z day: '01' ddc: - '004' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_815 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 81761fb939acb7585c36629f765b4373 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:07:55Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:18Z file_id: '4654' file_name: IST-2017-815-v1+3_final_blank_signature_maybe_pdfa.pdf file_size: 786145 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 2b2d7e1d6c1c79a9795a7aa0f860baf3 content_type: application/zip creator: dernst date_created: 2019-04-05T08:43:24Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:18Z file_id: '6208' file_name: 2017_Thesis_Rolinek_source.zip file_size: 5936337 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:18Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '97' project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria publist_id: '6407' pubrep_id: '815' status: public supervisor: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov title: Complexity of constraint satisfaction type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '1192' abstract: - lang: eng text: The main result of this paper is a generalization of the classical blossom algorithm for finding perfect matchings. Our algorithm can efficiently solve Boolean CSPs where each variable appears in exactly two constraints (we call it edge CSP) and all constraints are even Δ-matroid relations (represented by lists of tuples). As a consequence of this, we settle the complexity classification of planar Boolean CSPs started by Dvorak and Kupec. Knowing that edge CSP is tractable for even Δ-matroid constraints allows us to extend the tractability result to a larger class of Δ-matroids that includes many classes that were known to be tractable before, namely co-independent, compact, local and binary. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Alexandr full_name: Kazda, Alexandr id: 3B32BAA8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kazda - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: 'Kazda A, Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M. Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar Boolean CSPs. In: SIAM; 2017:307-326. doi:10.1137/1.9781611974782.20' apa: 'Kazda, A., Kolmogorov, V., & Rolinek, M. (2017). Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar Boolean CSPs (pp. 307–326). Presented at the SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Barcelona, Spain: SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974782.20' chicago: Kazda, Alexandr, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Michal Rolinek. “Even Delta-Matroids and the Complexity of Planar Boolean CSPs,” 307–26. SIAM, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974782.20. ieee: 'A. Kazda, V. Kolmogorov, and M. Rolinek, “Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar Boolean CSPs,” presented at the SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Barcelona, Spain, 2017, pp. 307–326.' ista: 'Kazda A, Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M. 2017. Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar Boolean CSPs. SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 307–326.' mla: Kazda, Alexandr, et al. Even Delta-Matroids and the Complexity of Planar Boolean CSPs. SIAM, 2017, pp. 307–26, doi:10.1137/1.9781611974782.20. short: A. Kazda, V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, in:, SIAM, 2017, pp. 307–326. conference: end_date: 2017-01019 location: Barcelona, Spain name: 'SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms' start_date: 2017-01-16 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:38Z date_published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-20T11:20:26Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1137/1.9781611974782.20 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000426965800020' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03124 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 307 - 326 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-161197478-2 publication_status: published publisher: SIAM publist_id: '6159' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '6032' relation: later_version status: public status: public title: Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar Boolean CSPs type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '916' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study the quadratic assignment problem, in computer vision also known as graph matching. Two leading solvers for this problem optimize the Lagrange decomposition duals with sub-gradient and dual ascent (also known as message passing) updates. We explore this direction further and propose several additional Lagrangean relaxations of the graph matching problem along with corresponding algorithms, which are all based on a common dual ascent framework. Our extensive empirical evaluation gives several theoretical insights and suggests a new state-of-the-art anytime solver for the considered problem. Our improvement over state-of-the-art is particularly visible on a new dataset with large-scale sparse problem instances containing more than 500 graph nodes each. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Carsten full_name: Rother, Carsten last_name: Rother - first_name: Carsten full_name: Abu Alhaija, Carsten last_name: Abu Alhaija - first_name: Dagmar full_name: Kainmueller, Dagmar last_name: Kainmueller - first_name: Bogdan full_name: Savchynskyy, Bogdan last_name: Savchynskyy citation: ama: 'Swoboda P, Rother C, Abu Alhaija C, Kainmueller D, Savchynskyy B. A study of lagrangean decompositions and dual ascent solvers for graph matching. In: Vol 2017. IEEE; 2017:7062-7071. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2017.747' apa: 'Swoboda, P., Rother, C., Abu Alhaija, C., Kainmueller, D., & Savchynskyy, B. (2017). A study of lagrangean decompositions and dual ascent solvers for graph matching (Vol. 2017, pp. 7062–7071). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.747' chicago: Swoboda, Paul, Carsten Rother, Carsten Abu Alhaija, Dagmar Kainmueller, and Bogdan Savchynskyy. “A Study of Lagrangean Decompositions and Dual Ascent Solvers for Graph Matching,” 2017:7062–71. IEEE, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.747. ieee: 'P. Swoboda, C. Rother, C. Abu Alhaija, D. Kainmueller, and B. Savchynskyy, “A study of lagrangean decompositions and dual ascent solvers for graph matching,” presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States, 2017, vol. 2017, pp. 7062–7071.' ista: 'Swoboda P, Rother C, Abu Alhaija C, Kainmueller D, Savchynskyy B. 2017. A study of lagrangean decompositions and dual ascent solvers for graph matching. CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition vol. 2017, 7062–7071.' mla: Swoboda, Paul, et al. A Study of Lagrangean Decompositions and Dual Ascent Solvers for Graph Matching. Vol. 2017, IEEE, 2017, pp. 7062–71, doi:10.1109/CVPR.2017.747. short: P. Swoboda, C. Rother, C. Abu Alhaija, D. Kainmueller, B. Savchynskyy, in:, IEEE, 2017, pp. 7062–7071. conference: end_date: 2017-07-26 location: Honolulu, HA, United States name: 'CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition' start_date: 2017-07-21 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:11Z date_published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-26T15:41:40Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2017.747 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000418371407018' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: e38a2740daad1ea178465843b5072906 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-01-18T12:49:38Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:15Z file_id: '5848' file_name: 2017_CVPR_Swoboda2.pdf file_size: 944332 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:15Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2017' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 7062-7071 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-153860457-1 publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '6525' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A study of lagrangean decompositions and dual ascent solvers for graph matching type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2017 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '915' abstract: - lang: eng text: We propose a dual decomposition and linear program relaxation of the NP-hard minimum cost multicut problem. Unlike other polyhedral relaxations of the multicut polytope, it is amenable to efficient optimization by message passing. Like other polyhedral relaxations, it can be tightened efficiently by cutting planes. We define an algorithm that alternates between message passing and efficient separation of cycle- and odd-wheel inequalities. This algorithm is more efficient than state-of-the-art algorithms based on linear programming, including algorithms written in the framework of leading commercial software, as we show in experiments with large instances of the problem from applications in computer vision, biomedical image analysis and data mining. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Bjoern full_name: Andres, Bjoern last_name: Andres citation: ama: 'Swoboda P, Andres B. A message passing algorithm for the minimum cost multicut problem. In: Vol 2017. IEEE; 2017:4990-4999. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2017.530' apa: 'Swoboda, P., & Andres, B. (2017). A message passing algorithm for the minimum cost multicut problem (Vol. 2017, pp. 4990–4999). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.530' chicago: Swoboda, Paul, and Bjoern Andres. “A Message Passing Algorithm for the Minimum Cost Multicut Problem,” 2017:4990–99. IEEE, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.530. ieee: 'P. Swoboda and B. Andres, “A message passing algorithm for the minimum cost multicut problem,” presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States, 2017, vol. 2017, pp. 4990–4999.' ista: 'Swoboda P, Andres B. 2017. A message passing algorithm for the minimum cost multicut problem. CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition vol. 2017, 4990–4999.' mla: Swoboda, Paul, and Bjoern Andres. A Message Passing Algorithm for the Minimum Cost Multicut Problem. Vol. 2017, IEEE, 2017, pp. 4990–99, doi:10.1109/CVPR.2017.530. short: P. Swoboda, B. Andres, in:, IEEE, 2017, pp. 4990–4999. conference: end_date: 2017-07-26 location: Honolulu, HA, United States name: 'CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition' start_date: 2017-07-21 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:11Z date_published: 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-26T15:43:27Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2017.530 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000418371405009' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 7e51dacefa693574581a32da3eff63dc content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-01-18T12:52:46Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:15Z file_id: '5849' file_name: Swoboda_A_Message_Passing_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf file_size: 883264 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:15Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2017' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 4990-4999 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-153860457-1 publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '6526' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A message passing algorithm for the minimum cost multicut problem type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2017 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '917' abstract: - lang: eng text: We propose a general dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems. Although methods of this type have shown their efficiency for a number of problems, so far there was no general algorithm applicable to multiple problem types. In this work, we propose such a general algorithm. It depends on several parameters, which can be used to optimize its performance in each particular setting. We demonstrate efficacy of our method on graph matching and multicut problems, where it outperforms state-of-the-art solvers including those based on subgradient optimization and off-the-shelf linear programming solvers. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Paul full_name: Swoboda, Paul id: 446560C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Swoboda - first_name: Jan full_name: Kuske, Jan last_name: Kuske - first_name: Bogdan full_name: Savchynskyy, Bogdan last_name: Savchynskyy citation: ama: 'Swoboda P, Kuske J, Savchynskyy B. A dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems. In: Vol 2017. IEEE; 2017:4950-4960. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2017.526' apa: 'Swoboda, P., Kuske, J., & Savchynskyy, B. (2017). A dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems (Vol. 2017, pp. 4950–4960). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.526' chicago: Swoboda, Paul, Jan Kuske, and Bogdan Savchynskyy. “A Dual Ascent Framework for Lagrangean Decomposition of Combinatorial Problems,” 2017:4950–60. IEEE, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.526. ieee: 'P. Swoboda, J. Kuske, and B. Savchynskyy, “A dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems,” presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States, 2017, vol. 2017, pp. 4950–4960.' ista: 'Swoboda P, Kuske J, Savchynskyy B. 2017. A dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems. CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition vol. 2017, 4950–4960.' mla: Swoboda, Paul, et al. A Dual Ascent Framework for Lagrangean Decomposition of Combinatorial Problems. Vol. 2017, IEEE, 2017, pp. 4950–60, doi:10.1109/CVPR.2017.526. short: P. Swoboda, J. Kuske, B. Savchynskyy, in:, IEEE, 2017, pp. 4950–4960. conference: end_date: 2017-07-26 location: Honolulu, HA, United States name: 'CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition' start_date: 2017-07-21 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:11Z date_published: 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-26T15:41:11Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2017.526 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000418371405005' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 72fd291046bd8e5717961bd68f6b6f03 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-01-18T12:45:55Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:15Z file_id: '5847' file_name: 2017_CVPR_Swoboda.pdf file_size: 898652 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:15Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2017' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 4950-4960 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-153860457-1 publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '6524' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2017 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '274' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the problem of estimating the partition function Z(β)=∑xexp(−β(H(x)) of a Gibbs distribution with a Hamilton H(⋅), or more precisely the logarithm of the ratio q=lnZ(0)/Z(β). It has been recently shown how to approximate q with high probability assuming the existence of an oracle that produces samples from the Gibbs distribution for a given parameter value in [0,β]. The current best known approach due to Huber [9] uses O(qlnn⋅[lnq+lnlnn+ε−2]) oracle calls on average where ε is the desired accuracy of approximation and H(⋅) is assumed to lie in {0}∪[1,n]. We improve the complexity to O(qlnn⋅ε−2) oracle calls. We also show that the same complexity can be achieved if exact oracles are replaced with approximate sampling oracles that are within O(ε2qlnn) variation distance from exact oracles. Finally, we prove a lower bound of Ω(q⋅ε−2) oracle calls under a natural model of computation. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Kolmogorov V. A faster approximation algorithm for the Gibbs partition function. In: Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory. Vol 75. ML Research Press; 2017:228-249.' apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2017). A faster approximation algorithm for the Gibbs partition function. In Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory (Vol. 75, pp. 228–249). ML Research Press. chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “A Faster Approximation Algorithm for the Gibbs Partition Function.” In Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory, 75:228–49. ML Research Press, 2017. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “A faster approximation algorithm for the Gibbs partition function,” in Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory, 2017, vol. 75, pp. 228–249. ista: 'Kolmogorov V. 2017. A faster approximation algorithm for the Gibbs partition function. Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory. COLT: Annual Conference on Learning Theory vol. 75, 228–249.' mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “A Faster Approximation Algorithm for the Gibbs Partition Function.” Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory, vol. 75, ML Research Press, 2017, pp. 228–49. short: V. Kolmogorov, in:, Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory, ML Research Press, 2017, pp. 228–249. conference: end_date: 2018-07-09 name: 'COLT: Annual Conference on Learning Theory ' start_date: 2018-07-06 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:33Z date_published: 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-17T12:32:13Z day: '27' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: VlKo ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1608.04223' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 89db06a0e8083524449cb59b56bf4e5b content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-12T09:23:27Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:45Z file_id: '7820' file_name: 2018_PMLR_Kolmogorov.pdf file_size: 408974 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:45Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 75' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 228-249 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory publication_status: published publisher: ML Research Press publist_id: '7628' quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: A faster approximation algorithm for the Gibbs partition function tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 75 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '1231' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We study the time-and memory-complexities of the problem of computing labels of (multiple) randomly selected challenge-nodes in a directed acyclic graph. The w-bit label of a node is the hash of the labels of its parents, and the hash function is modeled as a random oracle. Specific instances of this problem underlie both proofs of space [Dziembowski et al. CRYPTO’15] as well as popular memory-hard functions like scrypt. As our main tool, we introduce the new notion of a probabilistic parallel entangled pebbling game, a new type of combinatorial pebbling game on a graph, which is closely related to the labeling game on the same graph. As a first application of our framework, we prove that for scrypt, when the underlying hash function is invoked n times, the cumulative memory complexity (CMC) (a notion recently introduced by Alwen and Serbinenko (STOC’15) to capture amortized memory-hardness for parallel adversaries) is at least Ω(w · (n/ log(n))2). This bound holds for adversaries that can store many natural functions of the labels (e.g., linear combinations), but still not arbitrary functions thereof. We then introduce and study a combinatorial quantity, and show how a sufficiently small upper bound on it (which we conjecture) extends our CMC bound for scrypt to hold against arbitrary adversaries. We also show that such an upper bound solves the main open problem for proofs-of-space protocols: namely, establishing that the time complexity of computing the label of a random node in a graph on n nodes (given an initial kw-bit state) reduces tightly to the time complexity for black pebbling on the same graph (given an initial k-node pebbling).' acknowledgement: "Joël Alwen, Chethan Kamath, and Krzysztof Pietrzak’s research is partially supported by an ERC starting grant (259668-PSPC). Vladimir Kolmogorov is partially supported by an ERC consolidator grant (616160-DOICV). Binyi Chen was partially supported by NSF grants CNS-1423566 and CNS-1514526, and a gift from the Gareatis Foundation. Stefano Tessaro was partially supported by NSF grants CNS-1423566, CNS-1528178, a Hellman Fellowship, and the Glen and Susanne Culler Chair.\r\n\r\nThis work was done in part while the authors were visiting the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, supported by the Simons Foundation and by the DIMACS/Simons Collaboration in Cryptography through NSF grant CNS-1523467." alternative_title: - LNCS author: - first_name: Joel F full_name: Alwen, Joel F id: 2A8DFA8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Alwen - first_name: Binyi full_name: Chen, Binyi last_name: Chen - first_name: Chethan full_name: Kamath Hosdurg, Chethan id: 4BD3F30E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kamath Hosdurg - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 - first_name: Stefano full_name: Tessaro, Stefano last_name: Tessaro citation: ama: 'Alwen JF, Chen B, Kamath Hosdurg C, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ, Tessaro S. On the complexity of scrypt and proofs of space in the parallel random oracle model. In: Vol 9666. Springer; 2016:358-387. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_13' apa: 'Alwen, J. F., Chen, B., Kamath Hosdurg, C., Kolmogorov, V., Pietrzak, K. Z., & Tessaro, S. (2016). On the complexity of scrypt and proofs of space in the parallel random oracle model (Vol. 9666, pp. 358–387). Presented at the EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Vienna, Austria: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_13' chicago: Alwen, Joel F, Binyi Chen, Chethan Kamath Hosdurg, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, and Stefano Tessaro. “On the Complexity of Scrypt and Proofs of Space in the Parallel Random Oracle Model,” 9666:358–87. Springer, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_13. ieee: 'J. F. Alwen, B. Chen, C. Kamath Hosdurg, V. Kolmogorov, K. Z. Pietrzak, and S. Tessaro, “On the complexity of scrypt and proofs of space in the parallel random oracle model,” presented at the EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Vienna, Austria, 2016, vol. 9666, pp. 358–387.' ista: 'Alwen JF, Chen B, Kamath Hosdurg C, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ, Tessaro S. 2016. On the complexity of scrypt and proofs of space in the parallel random oracle model. EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, LNCS, vol. 9666, 358–387.' mla: Alwen, Joel F., et al. On the Complexity of Scrypt and Proofs of Space in the Parallel Random Oracle Model. Vol. 9666, Springer, 2016, pp. 358–87, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_13. short: J.F. Alwen, B. Chen, C. Kamath Hosdurg, V. Kolmogorov, K.Z. Pietrzak, S. Tessaro, in:, Springer, 2016, pp. 358–387. conference: end_date: 2016-05-12 location: Vienna, Austria name: 'EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques' start_date: 2016-05-08 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:51Z date_published: 2016-04-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:49:15Z day: '28' department: - _id: KrPi - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_13 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 9666' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/100 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 358 - 387 project: - _id: 258C570E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '259668' name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '6103' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: On the complexity of scrypt and proofs of space in the parallel random oracle model type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 9666 year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1353' abstract: - lang: eng text: We characterize absorption in finite idempotent algebras by means of Jónsson absorption and cube term blockers. As an application we show that it is decidable whether a given subset is an absorbing subuniverse of an algebra given by the tables of its basic operations. acknowledgement: 'Libor Barto and Alexandr Kazda were supported by the the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant GACR 13-01832S. ' author: - first_name: Libor full_name: Barto, Libor last_name: Barto - first_name: Alexandr full_name: Kazda, Alexandr id: 3B32BAA8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kazda citation: ama: Barto L, Kazda A. Deciding absorption. International Journal of Algebra and Computation. 2016;26(5):1033-1060. doi:10.1142/S0218196716500430 apa: Barto, L., & Kazda, A. (2016). Deciding absorption. International Journal of Algebra and Computation. World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430 chicago: Barto, Libor, and Alexandr Kazda. “Deciding Absorption.” International Journal of Algebra and Computation. World Scientific Publishing, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430. ieee: L. Barto and A. Kazda, “Deciding absorption,” International Journal of Algebra and Computation, vol. 26, no. 5. World Scientific Publishing, pp. 1033–1060, 2016. ista: Barto L, Kazda A. 2016. Deciding absorption. International Journal of Algebra and Computation. 26(5), 1033–1060. mla: Barto, Libor, and Alexandr Kazda. “Deciding Absorption.” International Journal of Algebra and Computation, vol. 26, no. 5, World Scientific Publishing, 2016, pp. 1033–60, doi:10.1142/S0218196716500430. short: L. Barto, A. Kazda, International Journal of Algebra and Computation 26 (2016) 1033–1060. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:32Z date_published: 2016-07-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:50:06Z day: '20' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1142/S0218196716500430 intvolume: ' 26' issue: '5' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07009 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1033 - 1060 publication: International Journal of Algebra and Computation publication_status: published publisher: World Scientific Publishing publist_id: '5893' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Deciding absorption type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 26 year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1377' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the problem of minimizing the continuous valued total variation subject to different unary terms on trees and propose fast direct algorithms based on dynamic programming to solve these problems. We treat both the convex and the nonconvex case and derive worst-case complexities that are equal to or better than existing methods. We show applications to total variation based two dimensional image processing and computer vision problems based on a Lagrangian decomposition approach. The resulting algorithms are very effcient, offer a high degree of parallelism, and come along with memory requirements which are only in the order of the number of image pixels. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Thomas full_name: Pock, Thomas last_name: Pock - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Pock T, Rolinek M. Total variation on a tree. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 2016;9(2):605-636. doi:10.1137/15M1010257 apa: Kolmogorov, V., Pock, T., & Rolinek, M. (2016). Total variation on a tree. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Thomas Pock, and Michal Rolinek. “Total Variation on a Tree.” SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2016. https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, T. Pock, and M. Rolinek, “Total variation on a tree,” SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 9, no. 2. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , pp. 605–636, 2016. ista: Kolmogorov V, Pock T, Rolinek M. 2016. Total variation on a tree. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 9(2), 605–636. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “Total Variation on a Tree.” SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 9, no. 2, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2016, pp. 605–36, doi:10.1137/15M1010257. short: V. Kolmogorov, T. Pock, M. Rolinek, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences 9 (2016) 605–636. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:40Z date_published: 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:50:15Z day: '03' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1137/15M1010257 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 9' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07770 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 605 - 636 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences publication_status: published publisher: 'Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ' publist_id: '5834' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Total variation on a tree type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 9 year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1612' abstract: - lang: eng text: We prove that whenever A is a 3-conservative relational structure with only binary and unary relations,then the algebra of polymorphisms of A either has no Taylor operation (i.e.,CSP(A)is NP-complete),or it generates an SD(∧) variety (i.e.,CSP(A)has bounded width). author: - first_name: Alexandr full_name: Kazda, Alexandr id: 3B32BAA8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kazda citation: ama: Kazda A. CSP for binary conservative relational structures. Algebra Universalis. 2016;75(1):75-84. doi:10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8 apa: Kazda, A. (2016). CSP for binary conservative relational structures. Algebra Universalis. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8 chicago: Kazda, Alexandr. “CSP for Binary Conservative Relational Structures.” Algebra Universalis. Springer, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8. ieee: A. Kazda, “CSP for binary conservative relational structures,” Algebra Universalis, vol. 75, no. 1. Springer, pp. 75–84, 2016. ista: Kazda A. 2016. CSP for binary conservative relational structures. Algebra Universalis. 75(1), 75–84. mla: Kazda, Alexandr. “CSP for Binary Conservative Relational Structures.” Algebra Universalis, vol. 75, no. 1, Springer, 2016, pp. 75–84, doi:10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8. short: A. Kazda, Algebra Universalis 75 (2016) 75–84. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:01Z date_published: 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:52:00Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8 intvolume: ' 75' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1099 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 75 - 84 publication: Algebra Universalis publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '5554' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: CSP for binary conservative relational structures type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 75 year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1193' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the recent formulation of the Algorithmic Lovász Local Lemma [1], [2] for finding objects that avoid "bad features", or "flaws". It extends the Moser-Tardos resampling algorithm [3] to more general discrete spaces. At each step the method picks a flaw present in the current state and "resamples" it using a "resampling oracle" provided by the user. However, it is less flexible than the Moser-Tardos method since [1], [2] require a specific flaw selection rule, whereas [3] allows an arbitrary rule (and thus can potentially be implemented more efficiently). We formulate a new "commutativity" condition, and prove that it is sufficient for an arbitrary rule to work. It also enables an efficient parallelization under an additional assumption. We then show that existing resampling oracles for perfect matchings and permutations do satisfy this condition. Finally, we generalize the precondition in [2] (in the case of symmetric potential causality graphs). This unifies special cases that previously were treated separately. acknowledgement: European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 616160 article_number: '7782993' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Kolmogorov V. Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovasz local lemma. In: Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. Vol 2016-December. IEEE; 2016. doi:10.1109/FOCS.2016.88' apa: 'Kolmogorov, V. (2016). Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovasz local lemma. In Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Vol. 2016–December). New Brunswick, NJ, USA : IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2016.88' chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Commutativity in the Algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma.” In Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 2016–December. IEEE, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2016.88. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovasz local lemma,” in Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, New Brunswick, NJ, USA , 2016, vol. 2016–December. ista: 'Kolmogorov V. 2016. Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovasz local lemma. Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science vol. 2016–December, 7782993.' mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Commutativity in the Algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma.” Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 2016–December, 7782993, IEEE, 2016, doi:10.1109/FOCS.2016.88. short: V. Kolmogorov, in:, Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, IEEE, 2016. conference: end_date: 2016-09-11 location: 'New Brunswick, NJ, USA ' name: 'FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science' start_date: 2016-09-09 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:38Z date_published: 2016-12-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:24:57Z day: '15' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/FOCS.2016.88 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1506.08547' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08547v7 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '6158' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '5975' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovasz local lemma type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 2016-December year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1794' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider Conditional random fields (CRFs) with pattern-based potentials defined on a chain. In this model the energy of a string (labeling) (Formula presented.) is the sum of terms over intervals [i, j] where each term is non-zero only if the substring (Formula presented.) equals a prespecified pattern w. Such CRFs can be naturally applied to many sequence tagging problems. We present efficient algorithms for the three standard inference tasks in a CRF, namely computing (i) the partition function, (ii) marginals, and (iii) computing the MAP. Their complexities are respectively (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.) where L is the combined length of input patterns, (Formula presented.) is the maximum length of a pattern, and D is the input alphabet. This improves on the previous algorithms of Ye et al. (NIPS, 2009) whose complexities are respectively (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.), where (Formula presented.) is the number of input patterns. In addition, we give an efficient algorithm for sampling, and revisit the case of MAP with non-positive weights. acknowledgement: This work has been partially supported by the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 616160. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Rustem full_name: Takhanov, Rustem id: 2CCAC26C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Takhanov citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Takhanov R. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. Algorithmica. 2016;76(1):17-46. doi:10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7 apa: Kolmogorov, V., & Takhanov, R. (2016). Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. Algorithmica. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Rustem Takhanov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based CRFs on Sequence Data.” Algorithmica. Springer, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7. ieee: V. Kolmogorov and R. Takhanov, “Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data,” Algorithmica, vol. 76, no. 1. Springer, pp. 17–46, 2016. ista: Kolmogorov V, Takhanov R. 2016. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. Algorithmica. 76(1), 17–46. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Rustem Takhanov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based CRFs on Sequence Data.” Algorithmica, vol. 76, no. 1, Springer, 2016, pp. 17–46, doi:10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7. short: V. Kolmogorov, R. Takhanov, Algorithmica 76 (2016) 17–46. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:02Z date_published: 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-17T09:51:31Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1210.0508' intvolume: ' 76' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0508 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 17 - 46 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: Algorithmica publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '5316' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2272' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 76 year: '2016' ... --- _id: '1636' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a fundamental algorithmic problem that appears in many areas of Computer Science. It can be equivalently stated as computing a homomorphism R→ΓΓ between two relational structures, e.g. between two directed graphs. Analyzing its complexity has been a prominent research direction, especially for the fixed template CSPs where the right side ΓΓ is fixed and the left side R is unconstrained.\r\n\r\nFar fewer results are known for the hybrid setting that restricts both sides simultaneously. It assumes that R belongs to a certain class of relational structures (called a structural restriction in this paper). We study which structural restrictions are effective, i.e. there exists a fixed template ΓΓ (from a certain class of languages) for which the problem is tractable when R is restricted, and NP-hard otherwise. We provide a characterization for structural restrictions that are closed under inverse homomorphisms. The criterion is based on the chromatic number of a relational structure defined in this paper; it generalizes the standard chromatic number of a graph.\r\n\r\nAs our main tool, we use the algebraic machinery developed for fixed template CSPs. To apply it to our case, we introduce a new construction called a “lifted language”. We also give a characterization for structural restrictions corresponding to minor-closed families of graphs, extend results to certain Valued CSPs (namely conservative valued languages), and state implications for (valued) CSPs with ordered variables and for the maximum weight independent set problem on some restricted families of graphs." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek - first_name: Rustem full_name: Takhanov, Rustem last_name: Takhanov citation: ama: 'Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M, Takhanov R. Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs. In: 26th International Symposium. Vol 9472. Springer Nature; 2015:566-577. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48' apa: 'Kolmogorov, V., Rolinek, M., & Takhanov, R. (2015). Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs. In 26th International Symposium (Vol. 9472, pp. 566–577). Nagoya, Japan: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48' chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Michal Rolinek, and Rustem Takhanov. “Effectiveness of Structural Restrictions for Hybrid CSPs.” In 26th International Symposium, 9472:566–77. Springer Nature, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, and R. Takhanov, “Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs,” in 26th International Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 2015, vol. 9472, pp. 566–577. ista: 'Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M, Takhanov R. 2015. Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs. 26th International Symposium. ISAAC: International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, LNCS, vol. 9472, 566–577.' mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “Effectiveness of Structural Restrictions for Hybrid CSPs.” 26th International Symposium, vol. 9472, Springer Nature, 2015, pp. 566–77, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48. short: V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, R. Takhanov, in:, 26th International Symposium, Springer Nature, 2015, pp. 566–577. conference: end_date: 2015-12-11 location: Nagoya, Japan name: 'ISAAC: International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation' start_date: 2015-12-09 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:10Z date_published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2022-02-01T15:12:35Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1504.07067' intvolume: ' 9472' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07067 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 566 - 577 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: 26th International Symposium publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-662-48970-3 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature publist_id: '5519' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs type: conference user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 volume: 9472 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '1841' abstract: - lang: eng text: We propose a new family of message passing techniques for MAP estimation in graphical models which we call Sequential Reweighted Message Passing (SRMP). Special cases include well-known techniques such as Min-Sum Diffusion (MSD) and a faster Sequential Tree-Reweighted Message Passing (TRW-S). Importantly, our derivation is simpler than the original derivation of TRW-S, and does not involve a decomposition into trees. This allows easy generalizations. The new family of algorithms can be viewed as a generalization of TRW-S from pairwise to higher-order graphical models. We test SRMP on several real-world problems with promising results. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: Kolmogorov V. A new look at reweighted message passing. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 2015;37(5):919-930. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465 apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2015). A new look at reweighted message passing. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “A New Look at Reweighted Message Passing.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “A new look at reweighted message passing,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 5. IEEE, pp. 919–930, 2015. ista: Kolmogorov V. 2015. A new look at reweighted message passing. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 37(5), 919–930. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “A New Look at Reweighted Message Passing.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 5, IEEE, 2015, pp. 919–30, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465. short: V. Kolmogorov, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 37 (2015) 919–930. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:18Z date_published: 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:33Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 37' issue: '5' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5655 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 919 - 930 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '5261' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: A new look at reweighted message passing type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 37 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '1859' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Structural support vector machines (SSVMs) are amongst the best performing models for structured computer vision tasks, such as semantic image segmentation or human pose estimation. Training SSVMs, however, is computationally costly, because it requires repeated calls to a structured prediction subroutine (called \\emph{max-oracle}), which has to solve an optimization problem itself, e.g. a graph cut.\r\nIn this work, we introduce a new algorithm for SSVM training that is more efficient than earlier techniques when the max-oracle is computationally expensive, as it is frequently the case in computer vision tasks. The main idea is to (i) combine the recent stochastic Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm with efficient hyperplane caching, and (ii) use an automatic selection rule for deciding whether to call the exact max-oracle or to rely on an approximate one based on the cached hyperplanes.\r\nWe show experimentally that this strategy leads to faster convergence to the optimum with respect to the number of requires oracle calls, and that this translates into faster convergence with respect to the total runtime when the max-oracle is slow compared to the other steps of the algorithm. " author: - first_name: Neel full_name: Shah, Neel id: 31ABAF80-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Shah - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Christoph full_name: Lampert, Christoph id: 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lampert orcid: 0000-0001-8622-7887 citation: ama: 'Shah N, Kolmogorov V, Lampert C. A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle. In: IEEE; 2015:2737-2745. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890' apa: 'Shah, N., Kolmogorov, V., & Lampert, C. (2015). A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle (pp. 2737–2745). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Boston, MA, USA: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890' chicago: Shah, Neel, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Christoph Lampert. “A Multi-Plane Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Training Structural SVMs with a Costly Max-Oracle,” 2737–45. IEEE, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890. ieee: 'N. Shah, V. Kolmogorov, and C. Lampert, “A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle,” presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Boston, MA, USA, 2015, pp. 2737–2745.' ista: 'Shah N, Kolmogorov V, Lampert C. 2015. A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle. CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2737–2745.' mla: Shah, Neel, et al. A Multi-Plane Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Training Structural SVMs with a Costly Max-Oracle. IEEE, 2015, pp. 2737–45, doi:10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890. short: N. Shah, V. Kolmogorov, C. Lampert, in:, IEEE, 2015, pp. 2737–2745. conference: end_date: 2015-06-12 location: Boston, MA, USA name: 'CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition' start_date: 2015-06-07 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:24Z date_published: 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:40Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo - _id: ChLa doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890 ec_funded: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6804 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 2737 - 2745 project: - _id: 2532554C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '308036' name: Lifelong Learning of Visual Scene Understanding - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '5240' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '2271' abstract: - lang: eng text: "A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain. Finite-valued constraint languages contain functions that take on rational costs and general-valued constraint languages contain functions that take on rational or infinite costs. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of functions from the language with the goal to minimise the sum. This framework includes and generalises well-studied constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and maximum constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSPs).\r\nOur main result is a precise algebraic characterisation of valued constraint languages whose instances can be solved exactly by the basic linear programming relaxation (BLP). For a general-valued constraint language Γ, BLP is a decision procedure for Γ if and only if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism of every arity. For a finite-valued constraint language Γ, BLP is a decision procedure if and only if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism of some arity, or equivalently, if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism of arity 2.\r\nUsing these results, we obtain tractability of several novel and previously widely-open classes of VCSPs, including problems over valued constraint languages that are: (1) submodular on arbitrary lattices; (2) bisubmodular (also known as k-submodular) on arbitrary finite domains; (3) weakly (and hence strongly) tree-submodular on arbitrary trees. " author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Johan full_name: Thapper, Johan last_name: Thapper - first_name: Stanislav full_name: Živný, Stanislav last_name: Živný citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Thapper J, Živný S. The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. 2015;44(1):1-36. doi:10.1137/130945648 apa: Kolmogorov, V., Thapper, J., & Živný, S. (2015). The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Johan Thapper, and Stanislav Živný. “The Power of Linear Programming for General-Valued CSPs.” SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, J. Thapper, and S. Živný, “The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs,” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 44, no. 1. SIAM, pp. 1–36, 2015. ista: Kolmogorov V, Thapper J, Živný S. 2015. The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. 44(1), 1–36. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “The Power of Linear Programming for General-Valued CSPs.” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 44, no. 1, SIAM, 2015, pp. 1–36, doi:10.1137/130945648. short: V. Kolmogorov, J. Thapper, S. Živný, SIAM Journal on Computing 44 (2015) 1–36. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:41Z date_published: 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:46:30Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1137/130945648 external_id: arxiv: - '1311.4219' intvolume: ' 44' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4219 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1 - 36 publication: SIAM Journal on Computing publication_status: published publisher: SIAM publist_id: '4673' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2518' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 44 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '1637' abstract: - lang: eng text: An instance of the Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is given by a finite set of variables, a finite domain of labels, and a sum of functions, each function depending on a subset of the variables. Each function can take finite values specifying costs of assignments of labels to its variables or the infinite value, which indicates an infeasible assignment. The goal is to find an assignment of labels to the variables that minimizes the sum. We study, assuming that P ≠ NP, how the complexity of this very general problem depends on the set of functions allowed in the instances, the so-called constraint language. The case when all allowed functions take values in {0, ∞} corresponds to ordinary CSPs, where one deals only with the feasibility issue and there is no optimization. This case is the subject of the Algebraic CSP Dichotomy Conjecture predicting for which constraint languages CSPs are tractable (i.e. solvable in polynomial time) and for which NP-hard. The case when all allowed functions take only finite values corresponds to finite-valued CSP, where the feasibility aspect is trivial and one deals only with the optimization issue. The complexity of finite-valued CSPs was fully classified by Thapper and Zivny. An algebraic necessary condition for tractability of a general-valued CSP with a fixed constraint language was recently given by Kozik and Ochremiak. As our main result, we prove that if a constraint language satisfies this algebraic necessary condition, and the feasibility CSP (i.e. the problem of deciding whether a given instance has a feasible solution) corresponding to the VCSP with this language is tractable, then the VCSP is tractable. The algorithm is a simple combination of the assumed algorithm for the feasibility CSP and the standard LP relaxation. As a corollary, we obtain that a dichotomy for ordinary CSPs would imply a dichotomy for general-valued CSPs. alternative_title: - 56th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Andrei full_name: Krokhin, Andrei last_name: Krokhin - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: 'Kolmogorov V, Krokhin A, Rolinek M. The complexity of general-valued CSPs. In: IEEE; 2015:1246-1258. doi:10.1109/FOCS.2015.80' apa: 'Kolmogorov, V., Krokhin, A., & Rolinek, M. (2015). The complexity of general-valued CSPs (pp. 1246–1258). Presented at the FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science, Berkeley, CA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80' chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Andrei Krokhin, and Michal Rolinek. “The Complexity of General-Valued CSPs,” 1246–58. IEEE, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80. ieee: 'V. Kolmogorov, A. Krokhin, and M. Rolinek, “The complexity of general-valued CSPs,” presented at the FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, 2015, pp. 1246–1258.' ista: 'Kolmogorov V, Krokhin A, Rolinek M. 2015. The complexity of general-valued CSPs. FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science, 56th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, , 1246–1258.' mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. The Complexity of General-Valued CSPs. IEEE, 2015, pp. 1246–58, doi:10.1109/FOCS.2015.80. short: V. Kolmogorov, A. Krokhin, M. Rolinek, in:, IEEE, 2015, pp. 1246–1258. conference: end_date: 2015-10-20 location: Berkeley, CA, United States name: 'FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science' start_date: 2015-10-18 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:10Z date_published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:44:26Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/FOCS.2015.80 ec_funded: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07327 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1246 - 1258 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '5518' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '644' relation: other status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: The complexity of general-valued CSPs type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '1675' abstract: - lang: eng text: Proofs of work (PoW) have been suggested by Dwork and Naor (Crypto’92) as protection to a shared resource. The basic idea is to ask the service requestor to dedicate some non-trivial amount of computational work to every request. The original applications included prevention of spam and protection against denial of service attacks. More recently, PoWs have been used to prevent double spending in the Bitcoin digital currency system. In this work, we put forward an alternative concept for PoWs - so-called proofs of space (PoS), where a service requestor must dedicate a significant amount of disk space as opposed to computation. We construct secure PoS schemes in the random oracle model (with one additional mild assumption required for the proof to go through), using graphs with high “pebbling complexity” and Merkle hash-trees. We discuss some applications, including follow-up work where a decentralized digital currency scheme called Spacecoin is constructed that uses PoS (instead of wasteful PoW like in Bitcoin) to prevent double spending. The main technical contribution of this work is the construction of (directed, loop-free) graphs on N vertices with in-degree O(log logN) such that even if one places Θ(N) pebbles on the nodes of the graph, there’s a constant fraction of nodes that needs Θ(N) steps to be pebbled (where in every step one can put a pebble on a node if all its parents have a pebble). alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Stefan full_name: Dziembowski, Stefan last_name: Dziembowski - first_name: Sebastian full_name: Faust, Sebastian last_name: Faust - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 citation: ama: 'Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. Proofs of space. In: 35th Annual Cryptology Conference. Vol 9216. Springer; 2015:585-605. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29' apa: 'Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015). Proofs of space. In 35th Annual Cryptology Conference (Vol. 9216, pp. 585–605). Santa Barbara, CA, United States: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29' chicago: Dziembowski, Stefan, Sebastian Faust, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “Proofs of Space.” In 35th Annual Cryptology Conference, 9216:585–605. Springer, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29. ieee: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Proofs of space,” in 35th Annual Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 2015, vol. 9216, pp. 585–605. ista: 'Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. 2015. Proofs of space. 35th Annual Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, LNCS, vol. 9216, 585–605.' mla: Dziembowski, Stefan, et al. “Proofs of Space.” 35th Annual Cryptology Conference, vol. 9216, Springer, 2015, pp. 585–605, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29. short: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, 35th Annual Cryptology Conference, Springer, 2015, pp. 585–605. conference: end_date: 2015-08-20 location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference' start_date: 2015-08-16 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:24Z date_published: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-20T08:31:49Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 9216' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/796.pdf month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 585 - 605 project: - _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '616160' name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice' - _id: 258C570E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '259668' name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography publication: 35th Annual Cryptology Conference publication_identifier: isbn: - '9783662479995' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '5474' pubrep_id: '671' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2274' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Proofs of space type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 9216 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '2275' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Energies with high-order non-submodular interactions have been shown to be very useful in vision due to their high modeling power. Optimization of such energies, however, is generally NP-hard. A naive approach that works for small problem instances is exhaustive search, that is, enumeration of all possible labelings of the underlying graph. We propose a general minimization approach for large graphs based on enumeration of labelings of certain small patches. \r\nThis partial enumeration technique reduces complex high-order energy formulations to pairwise Constraint Satisfaction Problems with unary costs (uCSP), which can be efficiently solved using standard methods like TRW-S. Our approach outperforms a number of existing state-of-the-art algorithms on well known difficult problems (e.g. curvature regularization, stereo, deconvolution); it gives near global minimum and better speed. \r\nOur main application of interest is curvature regularization. In the context of segmentation, our partial enumeration technique allows to evaluate curvature directly on small patches using a novel integral geometry approach.\r\n" author: - first_name: Carl full_name: Olsson, Carl last_name: Olsson - first_name: Johannes full_name: Ulen, Johannes last_name: Ulen - first_name: Yuri full_name: Boykov, Yuri last_name: Boykov - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Olsson C, Ulen J, Boykov Y, Kolmogorov V. Partial enumeration and curvature regularization. In: IEEE; 2014:2936-2943. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2013.365' apa: 'Olsson, C., Ulen, J., Boykov, Y., & Kolmogorov, V. (2014). Partial enumeration and curvature regularization (pp. 2936–2943). Presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365' chicago: Olsson, Carl, Johannes Ulen, Yuri Boykov, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Partial Enumeration and Curvature Regularization,” 2936–43. IEEE, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365. ieee: 'C. Olsson, J. Ulen, Y. Boykov, and V. Kolmogorov, “Partial enumeration and curvature regularization,” presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia, 2014, pp. 2936–2943.' ista: 'Olsson C, Ulen J, Boykov Y, Kolmogorov V. 2014. Partial enumeration and curvature regularization. ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, 2936–2943.' mla: Olsson, Carl, et al. Partial Enumeration and Curvature Regularization. IEEE, 2014, pp. 2936–43, doi:10.1109/ICCV.2013.365. short: C. Olsson, J. Ulen, Y. Boykov, V. Kolmogorov, in:, IEEE, 2014, pp. 2936–2943. conference: end_date: 2013-12-08 location: Sydney, Australia name: 'ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision' start_date: 2013-12-01 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:42Z date_published: 2014-03-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:56:28Z day: '03' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.365 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4a74b5c92d6dcd2348c2c10ec8dd18bf content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:09:30Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:36Z file_id: '4754' file_name: IST-2016-566-v1+1_iccv13_part_enumeration.pdf file_size: 378601 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:36Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 2936 - 2943 publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '4669' pubrep_id: '566' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Partial enumeration and curvature regularization type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2014' ... --- _id: '7038' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Kristóf full_name: Huszár, Kristóf id: 33C26278-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Huszár orcid: 0000-0002-5445-5057 - first_name: Michal full_name: Rolinek, Michal id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rolinek citation: ama: Huszár K, Rolinek M. Playful Math - An Introduction to Mathematical Games. IST Austria apa: Huszár, K., & Rolinek, M. (n.d.). Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical games. IST Austria. chicago: Huszár, Kristóf, and Michal Rolinek. Playful Math - An Introduction to Mathematical Games. IST Austria, n.d. ieee: K. Huszár and M. Rolinek, Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical games. IST Austria. ista: Huszár K, Rolinek M. Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical games, IST Austria, 5p. mla: Huszár, Kristóf, and Michal Rolinek. Playful Math - An Introduction to Mathematical Games. IST Austria. short: K. Huszár, M. Rolinek, Playful Math - An Introduction to Mathematical Games, IST Austria, n.d. date_created: 2019-11-18T15:57:05Z date_published: 2014-06-30T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T23:11:45Z day: '30' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: VlKo - _id: UlWa file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2b94e5e1f4c3fe8ab89b12806276fb09 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-11-18T15:57:51Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:48Z file_id: '7039' file_name: 2014_Playful_Math_Huszar.pdf file_size: 511233 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:48Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '5' publication_status: draft publisher: IST Austria status: public title: Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical games type: working_paper user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2014' ... --- _id: '2270' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Representation languages for coalitional games are a key research area in algorithmic game theory. There is an inher-\r\nent tradeoff between how general a language is, allowing it to capture more elaborate games, and how hard \ it is computationally to optimize and solve such games. One prominent such \ language is the simple yet expressive\r\nWeighted Graph Games (WGGs) representation (Deng and Papadimitriou 1994), which maintains knowledge about synergies between agents in the form of an edge weighted graph. We consider the problem of finding \ the optimal coalition structure in WGGs. The agents in such games are vertices in a graph, and the value of a coalition is the sum of the weights of the edges present between coalition members. The optimal coalition structure is a partition of the agents to coalitions, that maximizes the sum of utilities obtained by the coalitions. We show that finding the optimal coalition structure is not only hard for general graphs, but is also intractable for restricted families such as planar graphs which are amenable for many other combinatorial problems. \ We then provide algorithms with constant factor approximations for planar, minorfree and bounded degree graphs." author: - first_name: Yoram full_name: Bachrach, Yoram last_name: Bachrach - first_name: Pushmeet full_name: Kohli, Pushmeet last_name: Kohli - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Morteza full_name: Zadimoghaddam, Morteza last_name: Zadimoghaddam citation: ama: 'Bachrach Y, Kohli P, Kolmogorov V, Zadimoghaddam M. Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games. In: AAAI Press; 2013:81-87.' apa: 'Bachrach, Y., Kohli, P., Kolmogorov, V., & Zadimoghaddam, M. (2013). Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games (pp. 81–87). Presented at the AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bellevue, WA, United States: AAAI Press.' chicago: Bachrach, Yoram, Pushmeet Kohli, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Morteza Zadimoghaddam. “Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games,” 81–87. AAAI Press, 2013. ieee: 'Y. Bachrach, P. Kohli, V. Kolmogorov, and M. Zadimoghaddam, “Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games,” presented at the AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bellevue, WA, United States, 2013, pp. 81–87.' ista: 'Bachrach Y, Kohli P, Kolmogorov V, Zadimoghaddam M. 2013. Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games. AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 81–87.' mla: Bachrach, Yoram, et al. Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games. AAAI Press, 2013, pp. 81–87. short: Y. Bachrach, P. Kohli, V. Kolmogorov, M. Zadimoghaddam, in:, AAAI Press, 2013, pp. 81–87. conference: end_date: 2013-07-18 location: Bellevue, WA, United States name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2013-07-14 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:41Z date_published: 2013-12-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:56:25Z day: '31' department: - _id: VlKo external_id: arxiv: - '1108.5248' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5248 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: None page: 81-87 publication_status: published publisher: AAAI Press publist_id: '4674' quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2273' abstract: - lang: eng text: We propose a new family of message passing techniques for MAP estimation in graphical models which we call Sequential Reweighted Message Passing (SRMP). Special cases include well-known techniques such as Min-Sum Diusion (MSD) and a faster Sequential Tree-Reweighted Message Passing (TRW-S). Importantly, our derivation is simpler than the original derivation of TRW-S, and does not involve a decomposition into trees. This allows easy generalizations. We present such a generalization for the case of higher-order graphical models, and test it on several real-world problems with promising results. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Vladimir Kolmogorov id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: Kolmogorov V. Reweighted Message Passing Revisited. IST Austria; 2013. apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Reweighted message passing revisited. IST Austria. chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. Reweighted Message Passing Revisited. IST Austria, 2013. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, Reweighted message passing revisited. IST Austria, 2013. ista: Kolmogorov V. 2013. Reweighted message passing revisited, IST Austria,p. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. Reweighted Message Passing Revisited. IST Austria, 2013. short: V. Kolmogorov, Reweighted Message Passing Revisited, IST Austria, 2013. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:42Z date_published: 2013-09-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2019-01-24T13:07:32Z day: '22' department: - _id: VlKo extern: 0 main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5655 month: '09' oa: 1 publication_status: published publisher: IST Austria publist_id: '4671' quality_controlled: 0 status: public title: Reweighted message passing revisited type: report year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2276' abstract: - lang: eng text: The problem of minimizing the Potts energy function frequently occurs in computer vision applications. One way to tackle this NP-hard problem was proposed by Kovtun [19, 20]. It identifies a part of an optimal solution by running k maxflow computations, where k is the number of labels. The number of “labeled” pixels can be significant in some applications, e.g. 50-93% in our tests for stereo. We show how to reduce the runtime to O (log k) maxflow computations (or one parametric maxflow computation). Furthermore, the output of our algorithm allows to speed-up the subsequent alpha expansion for the unlabeled part, or can be used as it is for time-critical applications. To derive our technique, we generalize the algorithm of Felzenszwalb et al. [7] for Tree Metrics . We also show a connection to k-submodular functions from combinatorial optimization, and discuss k-submodular relaxations for general energy functions. author: - first_name: Igor full_name: Gridchyn, Igor id: 4B60654C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Gridchyn - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Gridchyn I, Kolmogorov V. Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions. In: IEEE; 2013:2320-2327. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2013.288' apa: 'Gridchyn, I., & Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions (pp. 2320–2327). Presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288' chicago: Gridchyn, Igor, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Potts Model, Parametric Maxflow and k-Submodular Functions,” 2320–27. IEEE, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288. ieee: 'I. Gridchyn and V. Kolmogorov, “Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions,” presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia, 2013, pp. 2320–2327.' ista: 'Gridchyn I, Kolmogorov V. 2013. Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions. ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, 2320–2327.' mla: Gridchyn, Igor, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. Potts Model, Parametric Maxflow and k-Submodular Functions. IEEE, 2013, pp. 2320–27, doi:10.1109/ICCV.2013.288. short: I. Gridchyn, V. Kolmogorov, in:, IEEE, 2013, pp. 2320–2327. conference: end_date: 2013-12-08 location: Sydney, Australia name: 'ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision' start_date: 2013-12-01 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:43Z date_published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:56:28Z day: '01' department: - _id: JoCs - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.288 external_id: arxiv: - '1310.1771' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1771 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 2320 - 2327 publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '4668' quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2518' abstract: - lang: eng text: A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the language with the goal to minimise the sum. We study which classes of finite-valued languages can be solved exactly by the basic linear programming relaxation (BLP). Thapper and Živný showed [20] that if BLP solves the language then the language admits a binary commutative fractional polymorphism. We prove that the converse is also true. This leads to a necessary and a sufficient condition which can be checked in polynomial time for a given language. In contrast, the previous necessary and sufficient condition due to [20] involved infinitely many inequalities. More recently, Thapper and Živný [21] showed (using, in particular, a technique introduced in this paper) that core languages that do not satisfy our condition are NP-hard. Taken together, these results imply that a finite-valued language can either be solved using Linear Programming or is NP-hard. alternative_title: - LNCS author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Kolmogorov V. The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive characterization. In: Vol 7965. Springer; 2013:625-636. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53' apa: 'Kolmogorov, V. (2013). The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive characterization (Vol. 7965, pp. 625–636). Presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, Riga, Latvia: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53' chicago: 'Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “The Power of Linear Programming for Finite-Valued CSPs: A Constructive Characterization,” 7965:625–36. Springer, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53.' ieee: 'V. Kolmogorov, “The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive characterization,” presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, Riga, Latvia, 2013, vol. 7965, no. 1, pp. 625–636.' ista: 'Kolmogorov V. 2013. The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive characterization. ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, LNCS, vol. 7965, 625–636.' mla: 'Kolmogorov, Vladimir. The Power of Linear Programming for Finite-Valued CSPs: A Constructive Characterization. Vol. 7965, no. 1, Springer, 2013, pp. 625–36, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53.' short: V. Kolmogorov, in:, Springer, 2013, pp. 625–636. conference: end_date: 2013-07-12 location: Riga, Latvia name: 'ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming' start_date: 2013-07-08 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:58:08Z date_published: 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:35:42Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53 external_id: arxiv: - '1207.7213' intvolume: ' 7965' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7213 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 625 - 636 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '4383' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2271' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: 'The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive characterization' type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 7965 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2828' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We study the complexity of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) parametrized by a constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions over a finite domain. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the language and the goal is to minimize the sum. Under the unique games conjecture, the approximability of finite-valued VCSPs is well understood, see Raghavendra [2008]. However, there is no characterization of finite-valued VCSPs, let alone general-valued VCSPs, that can be solved exactly in polynomial time, thus giving insights from a combinatorial optimization perspective. We consider the case of languages containing all possible unary cost functions. In the case of languages consisting of only {0, ∞}-valued cost functions (i.e., relations), such languages have been called conservative and studied by Bulatov [2003, 2011] and recently by Barto [2011]. Since we study valued languages, we call a language conservative if it contains all finite-valued unary cost functions. The computational complexity of conservative valued languages has been studied by Cohen et al. [2006] for languages over Boolean domains, by Deineko et al. [2008] for {0, 1}-valued languages (a.k.a Max-CSP), and by Takhanov [2010a] for {0, ∞}-valued languages containing all finite-valued unary cost functions (a.k.a. Min-Cost-Hom). We prove a Schaefer-like dichotomy theorem for conservative valued languages: if all cost functions in the language satisfy a certain condition (specified by a complementary combination of STP and MJN multimor-phisms), then any instance can be solved in polynomial time (via a new algorithm developed in this article), otherwise the language is NP-hard. This is the first complete complexity classification of general-valued constraint languages over non-Boolean domains. It is a common phenomenon that complexity classifications of problems over non-Boolean domains are significantly harder than the Boolean cases. The polynomial-time algorithm we present for the tractable cases is a generalization of the submodular minimization problem and a result of Cohen et al. [2008]. Our results generalize previous results by Takhanov [2010a] and (a subset of results) by Cohen et al. [2006] and Deineko et al. [2008]. Moreover, our results do not rely on any computer-assisted search as in Deineko et al. [2008], and provide a powerful tool for proving hardness of finite-valued and general-valued languages.' article_number: '10' author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Stanislav full_name: Živný, Stanislav last_name: Živný citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Živný S. The complexity of conservative valued CSPs. Journal of the ACM. 2013;60(2). doi:10.1145/2450142.2450146 apa: Kolmogorov, V., & Živný, S. (2013). The complexity of conservative valued CSPs. Journal of the ACM. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Stanislav Živný. “The Complexity of Conservative Valued CSPs.” Journal of the ACM. ACM, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146. ieee: V. Kolmogorov and S. Živný, “The complexity of conservative valued CSPs,” Journal of the ACM, vol. 60, no. 2. ACM, 2013. ista: Kolmogorov V, Živný S. 2013. The complexity of conservative valued CSPs. Journal of the ACM. 60(2), 10. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Stanislav Živný. “The Complexity of Conservative Valued CSPs.” Journal of the ACM, vol. 60, no. 2, 10, ACM, 2013, doi:10.1145/2450142.2450146. short: V. Kolmogorov, S. Živný, Journal of the ACM 60 (2013). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:59:48Z date_published: 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:00:00Z day: '02' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1145/2450142.2450146 external_id: arxiv: - '1110.2809' intvolume: ' 60' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2809 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: Journal of the ACM publication_status: published publisher: ACM publist_id: '3971' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: The complexity of conservative valued CSPs type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 60 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2901' abstract: - lang: eng text: ' We introduce the M-modes problem for graphical models: predicting the M label configurations of highest probability that are at the same time local maxima of the probability landscape. M-modes have multiple possible applications: because they are intrinsically diverse, they provide a principled alternative to non-maximum suppression techniques for structured prediction, they can act as codebook vectors for quantizing the configuration space, or they can form component centers for mixture model approximation. We present two algorithms for solving the M-modes problem. The first algorithm solves the problem in polynomial time when the underlying graphical model is a simple chain. The second algorithm solves the problem for junction chains. In synthetic and real dataset, we demonstrate how M-modes can improve the performance of prediction. We also use the generated modes as a tool to understand the topography of the probability distribution of configurations, for example with relation to the training set size and amount of noise in the data. ' alternative_title: - ' JMLR: W&CP' author: - first_name: Chao full_name: Chen, Chao id: 3E92416E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chen - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Zhu full_name: Yan, Zhu last_name: Yan - first_name: Dimitris full_name: Metaxas, Dimitris last_name: Metaxas - first_name: Christoph full_name: Lampert, Christoph id: 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lampert orcid: 0000-0001-8622-7887 citation: ama: 'Chen C, Kolmogorov V, Yan Z, Metaxas D, Lampert C. Computing the M most probable modes of a graphical model. In: Vol 31. JMLR; 2013:161-169.' apa: 'Chen, C., Kolmogorov, V., Yan, Z., Metaxas, D., & Lampert, C. (2013). Computing the M most probable modes of a graphical model (Vol. 31, pp. 161–169). Presented at the AISTATS: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Scottsdale, AZ, United States: JMLR.' chicago: Chen, Chao, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Zhu Yan, Dimitris Metaxas, and Christoph Lampert. “Computing the M Most Probable Modes of a Graphical Model,” 31:161–69. JMLR, 2013. ieee: 'C. Chen, V. Kolmogorov, Z. Yan, D. Metaxas, and C. Lampert, “Computing the M most probable modes of a graphical model,” presented at the AISTATS: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Scottsdale, AZ, United States, 2013, vol. 31, pp. 161–169.' ista: 'Chen C, Kolmogorov V, Yan Z, Metaxas D, Lampert C. 2013. Computing the M most probable modes of a graphical model. AISTATS: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, JMLR: W&CP, vol. 31, 161–169.' mla: Chen, Chao, et al. Computing the M Most Probable Modes of a Graphical Model. Vol. 31, JMLR, 2013, pp. 161–69. short: C. Chen, V. Kolmogorov, Z. Yan, D. Metaxas, C. Lampert, in:, JMLR, 2013, pp. 161–169. conference: end_date: 2013-05-01 location: Scottsdale, AZ, United States name: ' AISTATS: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2013-04-29 date_created: 2018-12-11T12:00:14Z date_published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:00:35Z day: '01' department: - _id: HeEd - _id: VlKo - _id: ChLa intvolume: ' 31' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v31/chen13a.html month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: None page: 161 - 169 publication_status: published publisher: JMLR publist_id: '3846' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Computing the M most probable modes of a graphical model type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 31 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2272' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) with pattern-based potentials defined on a chain. In this model the energy of a string (labeling) x1...xn is the sum of terms over intervals [i,j] where each term is non-zero only if the substring xi...xj equals a prespecified pattern α. Such CRFs can be naturally applied to many sequence tagging problems.\r\nWe present efficient algorithms for the three standard inference tasks in a CRF, namely computing (i) the partition function, (ii) marginals, and (iii) computing the MAP. Their complexities are respectively O(nL), O(nLℓmax) and O(nLmin{|D|,log(ℓmax+1)}) where L is the combined length of input patterns, ℓmax is the maximum length of a pattern, and D is the input alphabet. This improves on the previous algorithms of (Ye et al., 2009) whose complexities are respectively O(nL|D|), O(n|Γ|L2ℓ2max) and O(nL|D|), where |Γ| is the number of input patterns.\r\nIn addition, we give an efficient algorithm for sampling. Finally, we consider the case of non-positive weights. (Komodakis & Paragios, 2009) gave an O(nL) algorithm for computing the MAP. We present a modification that has the same worst-case complexity but can beat it in the best case. " alternative_title: - JMLR article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Rustem full_name: Takhanov, Rustem id: 2CCAC26C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Takhanov - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Takhanov R, Kolmogorov V. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. In: ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International. Vol 28. ML Research Press; 2013:145-153.' apa: 'Takhanov, R., & Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. In ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International (Vol. 28, pp. 145–153). Atlanta, GA, USA: ML Research Press.' chicago: Takhanov, Rustem, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based CRFs on Sequence Data.” In ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International, 28:145–53. ML Research Press, 2013. ieee: R. Takhanov and V. Kolmogorov, “Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data,” in ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2013, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 145–153. ista: 'Takhanov R, Kolmogorov V. 2013. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International. ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning, JMLR, vol. 28, 145–153.' mla: Takhanov, Rustem, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based CRFs on Sequence Data.” ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International, vol. 28, no. 3, ML Research Press, 2013, pp. 145–53. short: R. Takhanov, V. Kolmogorov, in:, ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International, ML Research Press, 2013, pp. 145–153. conference: end_date: 2013-06-21 location: Atlanta, GA, USA name: 'ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning' start_date: 2013-06-16 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:41Z date_published: 2013-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-17T09:51:32Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo intvolume: ' 28' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v28/takhanov13.pdf?CFID=105472548&CFTOKEN=5c5859b5d97b4439-27B4AC58-BA92-A964-B598CAACEE6CC515 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 145 - 153 publication: ICML'13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International publication_status: published publisher: ML Research Press publist_id: '4672' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1794' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 28 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2274' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Proofs of work (PoW) have been suggested by Dwork and Naor (Crypto'92) as protection to a shared resource. The basic idea is to ask the service requestor to dedicate some non-trivial amount of computational work to every request. The original applications included prevention of spam and protection against denial of service attacks. More recently, PoWs have been used to prevent double spending in the Bitcoin digital currency system.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we put forward an alternative concept for PoWs -- so-called proofs of space (PoS), where a service requestor must dedicate a significant amount of disk space as opposed to computation. We construct secure PoS schemes in the random oracle model, using graphs with high "pebbling complexity" and Merkle hash-trees. " author: - first_name: Stefan full_name: Dziembowski, Stefan last_name: Dziembowski - first_name: Sebastian full_name: Faust, Sebastian last_name: Faust - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 citation: ama: Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. Proofs of Space. IST Austria; 2013. apa: Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2013). Proofs of Space. IST Austria. chicago: Dziembowski, Stefan, Sebastian Faust, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. Proofs of Space. IST Austria, 2013. ieee: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, and K. Z. Pietrzak, Proofs of Space. IST Austria, 2013. ista: Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. 2013. Proofs of Space, IST Austria,p. mla: Dziembowski, Stefan, et al. Proofs of Space. IST Austria, 2013. short: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, K.Z. Pietrzak, Proofs of Space, IST Austria, 2013. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:42Z date_published: 2013-11-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-20T08:31:49Z day: '28' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: VlKo - _id: KrPi file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 37b61637b62fc079d9141c59d9f1a94f content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:16:11Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:36Z file_id: '5197' file_name: IST-2016-671-v1+1_796.pdf file_size: 405870 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:36Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication_status: published publisher: IST Austria publist_id: '4670' pubrep_id: '671' related_material: record: - id: '1675' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Proofs of Space type: report user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2013' ... --- _id: '2930' abstract: - lang: eng text: "In this paper we investigate k-submodular functions. This natural family of discrete functions includes submodular and bisubmodular functions as the special cases k = 1 and k = 2 respectively.\r\n\r\nIn particular we generalize the known Min-Max-Theorem for submodular and bisubmodular functions. This theorem asserts that the minimum of the (bi)submodular function can be found by solving a maximization problem over a (bi)submodular polyhedron. We define a k-submodular polyhedron, prove a Min-Max-Theorem for k-submodular functions, and give a greedy algorithm to construct the vertices of the polyhedron.\r\n" acknowledgement: "We would like to thank Andrei Krokhin for encourag- ing our cooperation, for helpful discussions, and for his critical reading of the manuscript.\r\n" alternative_title: - LNCS author: - first_name: Anna full_name: Huber, Anna last_name: Huber - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: 'Huber A, Kolmogorov V. Towards minimizing k-submodular functions. In: Vol 7422. Springer; 2012:451-462. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_40' apa: 'Huber, A., & Kolmogorov, V. (2012). Towards minimizing k-submodular functions (Vol. 7422, pp. 451–462). Presented at the ISCO: International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, Athens, Greece: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_40' chicago: Huber, Anna, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Towards Minimizing K-Submodular Functions,” 7422:451–62. Springer, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_40. ieee: 'A. Huber and V. Kolmogorov, “Towards minimizing k-submodular functions,” presented at the ISCO: International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, Athens, Greece, 2012, vol. 7422, pp. 451–462.' ista: 'Huber A, Kolmogorov V. 2012. Towards minimizing k-submodular functions. ISCO: International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, LNCS, vol. 7422, 451–462.' mla: Huber, Anna, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. Towards Minimizing K-Submodular Functions. Vol. 7422, Springer, 2012, pp. 451–62, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_40. short: A. Huber, V. Kolmogorov, in:, Springer, 2012, pp. 451–462. conference: end_date: 2012-04-21 location: Athens, Greece name: 'ISCO: International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization' start_date: 2012-04-19 date_created: 2018-12-11T12:00:24Z date_published: 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:00:46Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_40 intvolume: ' 7422' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5469 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 451 - 462 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '3806' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Towards minimizing k-submodular functions type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 7422 year: '2012' ... --- _id: '2928' abstract: - lang: eng text: ' This paper addresses the problem of approximate MAP-MRF inference in general graphical models. Following [36], we consider a family of linear programming relaxations of the problem where each relaxation is specified by a set of nested pairs of factors for which the marginalization constraint needs to be enforced. We develop a generalization of the TRW-S algorithm [9] for this problem, where we use a decomposition into junction chains, monotonic w.r.t. some ordering on the nodes. This generalizes the monotonic chains in [9] in a natural way. We also show how to deal with nested factors in an efficient way. Experiments show an improvement over min-sum diffusion, MPLP and subgradient ascent algorithms on a number of computer vision and natural language processing problems. ' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Thomas full_name: Schoenemann, Thomas last_name: Schoenemann citation: ama: Kolmogorov V, Schoenemann T. Generalized sequential tree-reweighted message passing. arXiv. 2012. apa: Kolmogorov, V., & Schoenemann, T. (2012). Generalized sequential tree-reweighted message passing. arXiv. ArXiv. chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Thomas Schoenemann. “Generalized Sequential Tree-Reweighted Message Passing.” ArXiv. ArXiv, 2012. ieee: V. Kolmogorov and T. Schoenemann, “Generalized sequential tree-reweighted message passing,” arXiv. ArXiv, 2012. ista: Kolmogorov V, Schoenemann T. 2012. Generalized sequential tree-reweighted message passing. arXiv, . mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Thomas Schoenemann. “Generalized Sequential Tree-Reweighted Message Passing.” ArXiv, ArXiv, 2012. short: V. Kolmogorov, T. Schoenemann, ArXiv (2012). date_created: 2018-12-11T12:00:23Z date_published: 2012-05-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:00:45Z day: '29' department: - _id: VlKo external_id: arxiv: - '1205.6352' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6352 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: '16' publication: arXiv publication_status: published publisher: ArXiv publist_id: '3809' status: public title: Generalized sequential tree-reweighted message passing type: preprint user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2012' ... --- _id: '2931' abstract: - lang: eng text: "In this paper, we present a new approach for establishing correspondences between sparse image features related by an unknown nonrigid mapping and corrupted by clutter and occlusion, such as points extracted from images of different instances of the same object category. We formulate this matching task as an energy minimization problem by defining an elaborate objective function of the appearance and the spatial arrangement of the features. Optimization of this energy is an instance of graph matching, which is in general an NP-hard problem. We describe a novel graph matching optimization technique, which we refer to as dual decomposition (DD), and demonstrate on a variety of examples that this method outperforms existing graph matching algorithms. In the majority of our examples, DD is able to find the global minimum within a minute. The ability to globally optimize the objective allows us to accurately learn the parameters of our matching model from training examples. We show on several matching tasks that our learned model yields results superior to those of state-of-the-art methods.\r\n" acknowledgement: This research was funded in part by Microsoft Research. author: - first_name: Lorenzo full_name: Torresani, Lorenzo last_name: Torresani - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov - first_name: Carsten full_name: Rother, Carsten last_name: Rother citation: ama: Torresani L, Kolmogorov V, Rother C. A dual decomposition approach to feature correspondence. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 2012;35(2):259-271. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2012.105 apa: Torresani, L., Kolmogorov, V., & Rother, C. (2012). A dual decomposition approach to feature correspondence. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2012.105 chicago: Torresani, Lorenzo, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Carsten Rother. “A Dual Decomposition Approach to Feature Correspondence.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2012.105. ieee: L. Torresani, V. Kolmogorov, and C. Rother, “A dual decomposition approach to feature correspondence,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 35, no. 2. IEEE, pp. 259–271, 2012. ista: Torresani L, Kolmogorov V, Rother C. 2012. A dual decomposition approach to feature correspondence. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 35(2), 259–271. mla: Torresani, Lorenzo, et al. “A Dual Decomposition Approach to Feature Correspondence.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 35, no. 2, IEEE, 2012, pp. 259–71, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2012.105. short: L. Torresani, V. Kolmogorov, C. Rother, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 35 (2012) 259–271. date_created: 2018-12-11T12:00:24Z date_published: 2012-05-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:00:46Z day: '08' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2012.105 intvolume: ' 35' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa_version: None page: 259 - 271 project: - _id: 2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship publication: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '3805' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: A dual decomposition approach to feature correspondence type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 35 year: '2012' ... --- _id: '3117' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the problem of minimizing a function represented as a sum of submodular terms. We assume each term allows an efficient computation of exchange capacities. This holds, for example, for terms depending on a small number of variables, or for certain cardinality-dependent terms. A naive application of submodular minimization algorithms would not exploit the existence of specialized exchange capacity subroutines for individual terms. To overcome this, we cast the problem as a submodular flow (SF) problem in an auxiliary graph in such a way that applying most existing SF algorithms would rely only on these subroutines. We then explore in more detail Iwata's capacity scaling approach for submodular flows (Iwata 1997 [19]). In particular, we show how to improve its complexity in the case when the function contains cardinality-dependent terms. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: Kolmogorov V. Minimizing a sum of submodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 2012;160(15):2246-2258. doi:10.1016/j.dam.2012.05.025 apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2012). Minimizing a sum of submodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2012.05.025 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Minimizing a Sum of Submodular Functions.” Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2012.05.025. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “Minimizing a sum of submodular functions,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 160, no. 15. Elsevier, pp. 2246–2258, 2012. ista: Kolmogorov V. 2012. Minimizing a sum of submodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 160(15), 2246–2258. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Minimizing a Sum of Submodular Functions.” Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 160, no. 15, Elsevier, 2012, pp. 2246–58, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2012.05.025. short: V. Kolmogorov, Discrete Applied Mathematics 160 (2012) 2246–2258. date_created: 2018-12-11T12:01:29Z date_published: 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:41:11Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1016/j.dam.2012.05.025 intvolume: ' 160' issue: '15' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1990 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 2246 - 2258 publication: Discrete Applied Mathematics publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier publist_id: '3582' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Minimizing a sum of submodular functions type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 160 year: '2012' ... --- _id: '3257' abstract: - lang: eng text: Consider a convex relaxation f̂ of a pseudo-Boolean function f. We say that the relaxation is totally half-integral if f̂(x) is a polyhedral function with half-integral extreme points x, and this property is preserved after adding an arbitrary combination of constraints of the form x i=x j, x i=1-x j, and x i=γ where γ∈{0,1,1/2} is a constant. A well-known example is the roof duality relaxation for quadratic pseudo-Boolean functions f. We argue that total half-integrality is a natural requirement for generalizations of roof duality to arbitrary pseudo-Boolean functions. Our contributions are as follows. First, we provide a complete characterization of totally half-integral relaxations f̂ by establishing a one-to-one correspondence with bisubmodular functions. Second, we give a new characterization of bisubmodular functions. Finally, we show some relationships between general totally half-integral relaxations and relaxations based on the roof duality. On the conceptual level, our results show that bisubmodular functions provide a natural generalization of the roof duality approach to higher-order terms. This can be viewed as a non-submodular analogue of the fact that submodular functions generalize the s-t minimum cut problem with non-negative weights to higher-order terms. author: - first_name: Vladimir full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kolmogorov citation: ama: Kolmogorov V. Generalized roof duality and bisubmodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 2012;160(4-5):416-426. doi:10.1016/j.dam.2011.10.026 apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2012). Generalized roof duality and bisubmodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2011.10.026 chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Generalized Roof Duality and Bisubmodular Functions.” Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2011.10.026. ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “Generalized roof duality and bisubmodular functions,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 160, no. 4–5. Elsevier, pp. 416–426, 2012. ista: Kolmogorov V. 2012. Generalized roof duality and bisubmodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 160(4–5), 416–426. mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “Generalized Roof Duality and Bisubmodular Functions.” Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 160, no. 4–5, Elsevier, 2012, pp. 416–26, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2011.10.026. short: V. Kolmogorov, Discrete Applied Mathematics 160 (2012) 416–426. date_created: 2018-12-11T12:02:18Z date_published: 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T11:04:49Z day: '01' department: - _id: VlKo doi: 10.1016/j.dam.2011.10.026 external_id: arxiv: - '1005.2305' intvolume: ' 160' issue: 4-5 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2305 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 416 - 426 publication: Discrete Applied Mathematics publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier publist_id: '3397' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2934' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Generalized roof duality and bisubmodular functions type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 160 year: '2012' ...