Toshiba Corporation has realized a major breakthrough in combinatorial optimization—the selection of the best solutions from among an enormous number of combinatorial patterns—with the development of ...

A new adaptive Lévy flight–based wolf pack algorithm significantly outperforms ten competing metaheuristics on 300 multi-UAV ...

The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin ...

Conventional quantum algorithms are not feasible for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) with constraints in the operation time of quantum computers. To address this issue, researchers ...

Combinatorial optimization and integer programming form the backbone of decision-making models in which discrete choices must be made under constraints. At its core, integer programming specialises in ...

Solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems, such as Max-Cut, is crucial for a variety of applications such as network analysis and finance. Ising machines are emerging as unconventional ...

A framework based on advanced AI techniques can solve complex, computationally intensive problems faster and in a more more scalable way than state-of-the-art methods, according to a new study. A ...

In this graduate-level course, we will be covering advanced topics in combinatorial optimization. We will start with matchings and cover many results, extending the fundamental results of matchings, ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper ...

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) ...