One of the most successful films from the 1990s was the Usual Suspects, a crime thriller that introduced the world to Keyser Söze, one of cinema’s most iconic characters. Both crime lord Söze and the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In a standard paper assignment setting, a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $n^{(p)}$ papers needs to be assigned to a set $\mathcal{R}$ of $n^{(r)}$ reviewers. To ensure each ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Power distribution systems are often conceptualized as optimization models. While optimizing agents to perform tasks works well for systems with limited checkpoints, things begin to go out of hand ...

Abstract: The problem of determining the location of the hospital's department to minimize the total distance traveled by patients can be formulated as a Quadratic assignment problem (QAP), one of the ...

Quantum Computing Live 'quantum network' being tested in New York — overcoming key hurdles could bring us closer to an 'unhackable' internet Exoplanets Scientists identify 10,000 'impossible' ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper we compare track data association purity, accuracy, and timing on a simple, idealized model tracking problem for two data association methods: Global Nearest Neighbor (GNN) and ...

This is the readme file for the Paper "Accelerating the Hungarian Algorithm: Computing Linear Assignments on CPUs, GPUs, and IPUs". IPU: We run our algorithm on the 1.325GHz Mk2 GC200 IPU. GPU: All ...