Real-world optimization problems often require an external “modeling engine” that computes fitnesses or data that are then input to an objective function. These programs often have much longer ...

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1 Minutia.AI Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore 2 Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy A representation of the cause-effect mechanism is ...

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Abstract: The max-min fairness (MMF) problem in rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is known to be challenging due to its non-convex and non-smooth nature, as well as the coupled beamforming and ...

Submodular maximization is a significant area of interest in combinatorial optimization, with numerous real-world applications. A research team led by Xiaoming SUN from the State Key Lab of Processors ...

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