The subset sum problem (SSP) is a decision problem in computer science. In its most general formulation, there is a multiset S {\displaystyle S} of integers...
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The partition problem is a special case of two related problems: In the subset sum problem, the goal is to find a subset of S whose sum is a certain target...
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knapsack problem is often used to refer specifically to the subset sum problem. The subset sum problem is one of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems. Knapsack...
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multiple subset sum problem is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a generalization of the subset sum problem. The...
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key for decryption. It is based on the subset sum problem (a special case of the knapsack problem). The problem is as follows: given a set of integers...
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NP-hardness (redirect from NP-Hard Problem)
polynomial-time algorithms for NP-hard problems exist. A simple example of an NP-hard problem is the subset sum problem. Informally, if H is NP-hard, then...
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maximum sum subarray problem, also known as the maximum segment sum problem, is the task of finding a contiguous subarray with the largest sum, within...
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by David J. Grynkiewicz in 2005). Barycentric-sum problem Davenport constant Subset sum problem Zero-sum Ramsey theory Erdős, Paul; Ginzburg, A.; Ziv,...
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spacePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Subset sum problem – Decision problem in computer science Subsumptive containment – System of...
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subset sum problem can be reduced to the problem of computing the required partition C1, C2, ..., Cn of columns: Given an input set S for the subset sum...
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NP (complexity) (redirect from NP-problem)
given subset has sum zero is a verifier. Clearly, summing the integers of a subset can be done in polynomial time, and the subset sum problem is therefore...
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theory, Waring's problem asks whether each natural number k has an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s natural...
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collection, referred to as S, of a given m subsets whose union equals the universe, the set cover problem is to identify a smallest sub-collection of...
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For example, an early suggestion was to use schemes based on the subset sum problem. This turned out rather quickly to be unsuitable. As of 2004[update]...
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Partition problem: SP12 Quadratic assignment problem: ND43 Quadratic programming (NP-hard in some cases, P if convex) Subset sum problem: SP13 Variations...
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no such subset). This optimization problem is similar to the decision problem SUBSET-SUM. Given a set of integers, SUBSET-SUM is the problem of finding...
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tours, each visiting only a subset of the vertices; arguably, it is this global requirement that makes TSP a hard problem. The MTZ and DFJ formulations...
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fibered sum in category theory QCD sum rules, in quantum field theory Riemann sum, in calculus Rule of sum, in combinatorics Subset sum problem, in cryptography...
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problem attacked in this way was the Hamiltonian path problem. The simplest one is the subset sum problem. An optical device solving an instance with four...
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known as the marriage problem, the sultan's dowry problem, the fussy suitor problem, the googol game, and the best choice problem. Its solution is also...
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on calculations involving the subset sum problem) to show that every integer greater than 96 may be represented as a sum of distinct super-prime numbers...
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partitioning is the problem of partitioning a multiset of numbers into a fixed number of subsets, such that the sums of the subsets are as similar as possible...
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Weak NP-completeness (category Weakly NP-complete problems)
weakly NP-complete problem is the subset sum problem. The related term strongly NP-complete (or unary NP-complete) refers to those problems that remain NP-complete...
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designed such that the problem of finding collisions should be reducible to a known and hard mathematical problem (the subset sum problem). It means that if...
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NP-completeness (redirect from NP-complete problem)
isomorphism problem Subset sum problem Clique problem Vertex cover problem Independent set problem Dominating set problem Graph coloring problem Sudoku To...
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Maximum cut (redirect from Max-cut problem)
Finding such a cut is known as the max-cut problem. The problem can be stated simply as follows. One wants a subset S of the vertex set such that the number...
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a_{n-1})\mid \sum _{i=0}^{n-1}a_{i}x^{i}\in I\right\}\subset \mathbb {Z} ^{n}.} Theorem: L ⊂ Z n {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}\subset \mathbb {Z} ^{n}}...
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Minimum spanning tree (redirect from Minimum spanning tree problem)
A minimum spanning tree (MST) or minimum weight spanning tree is a subset of the edges of a connected, edge-weighted undirected graph that connects all...
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solve SUBSET-SUM in polynomial time is b bits long, the above algorithm will try at least 2b − 1 other programs first. A decision problem is a problem that...
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knapsack problem: If for each item the profit and weight are equal, we get the subset sum problem (often the corresponding decision problem is given instead):...
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