Questions tagged [subset-sum]
Questions about the NP-complete problem Subset Sum.
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Minimum absolute value of subset sums of integer values
$f(x_1,...,x_m)=\min_{\emptyset\subset I\subseteq[m] }\left|\sum_{i\in I}x_i\right|, x_i\in \mathbb{Z}\setminus\{0\}$
How to prove $f\in \mathbf{POLY} \Leftrightarrow \mathbf{P}=\mathbf{NP}$?
When $\...
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Have I proven P equals NP if I find an amortized O(n) algorithm for Subset Sum
I have found an algorithm that runs quite fast on Subset Sum problem few years ago (sometime around 2016). It basically sorts the input set in descending order (instead of the regular ascending) and ...
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Given an abstract argumentation framework, is there a tool that can compute: conflict free, admissible and all extensions?
I am trying to find an online/offline tool that can compute the following:
Given an abstract argumentation framework <S, R>, where S = {a1, a2, a3, a4, a5} and the attack relation
R = {(a1, a2),(...
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How to prove that the subset sum problem is polynomially reducible to the knapsack problem
I want to prove that the subset sum problem is polynomially reducible to the Knapsack problem. Overall I want to show that Knapsack is NP-complete.
There are two parts to showing knapsack is NP-...
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Get $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ element of sorted subset sums
I have a sorted multiset (size < 100, real valued) and want to determine the $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ largest of all possible subset sums (including multiplicity in the sums).
Attempt at solving :
I have ...
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Subset selection with maximum sum and minimum variance?
So I am trying to tackle a combinatorial optimization problem and would like some insights on how to approach it. The problem statement is as follows: Consider a set of elements of size N, how do I ...
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Showing that Subset Sum Reduces to 3-Partition [duplicate]
Given a set of integers S (positive and negative, may contain duplicates) can S be divided into three disjoint subsets that all sum to the same value? Prove this problem is NP-complete.
This is a ...
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Reduce Subset-Sum to Sat
Is there a reduction from SUBSET-SUM to SAT?
Just general SAT, not 3-SAT.
Also the given multiset S only has positive integers.
SUBSET-SUM is defined as follows:
Input: a multiset S = { x1 , ... , xn }...
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Unconstrained subset sum vs constrained subset sum?
In class, we discussed two question types: constrained subset-sum and unconstrained subset-sum. Let me define the question specifically and then I will mention what I am confused by.
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Is is possible to create a SUBSET-SUM instance that each subset is “unique”?
Given a SUBSET-SUM instance $S$ with a weight $W$, is it possible to create, in polynomial time, a new non-empty instance $T$ (at most the same length as $S$) with weight $M$, that for each non-empty ...
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How can you modify a SUBSET-SUM instance so evaluating a set outputs either 0 or 1?
An SUBSET-SUM instance is a list of $n$ integers $\{ a_1, a_2,... a_n\}$. To evaluate a subset is to output the sum of a subset.
However, I want to know, is it possible to create a new instance $T$, ...
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Are inputs of NP problems too implicit?
I'm reading on wikipedia about P vs NP and I have a question.
Consider the zero sum problem: given a set of integer A, determine if there is a non empty subset such that the sum of all its elements is ...
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Multi-dimensional Knapsack with Minimum Value constraints for Dimensions
In MDK, we have a vector $W = \{W_1, W_2, ..., W_d\}$ where each element corresponds to the maximum weight for the respective dimension in the knapsack.
I want to add a conditional constraint: $V = {...
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Dataset of Hard Instances of SUBSET-SUM
I know for factoring we have the RSA Numbers, in which factoring one of them quickly (usually) indicates a breakthrough in the field. However, I want to know if there's something similar for SUBSET-...
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Converting a Mixed SUBSET-SUM Problem To All-Positive Case
Let's say we have a SUBSET-SUM problem with list {$x_1,x_2,x_3,...x_N$} and weight $W$, with some of $x_i<0$. Is there a known way, in polynomial time, to convert this problem into an equivalent ...
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Complexity of Subset Sum where the size of the subset is specified
I know it should be easy but I'm trying to determine the complexity of the following variant of Subset Sum.
Given a subset $S$ of positive integers and integers $k>0$ and $N>0$, is there a ...
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Find the smallest group of numbers with sum bigger then $X$
Given a list of numbers $S$ where $0 < s_i < 100$, find the minimum sum group of numbers with a sum bigger than $X$.
Each number can be used multiple times.
Ex: for $S = [3,4.1], X = 10$ the ...
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How to realize applicable meet-in-the-middle algorithm for 0-1 Knapsack?
I am now studying Knapsack Problem (KP), and find the Meet-in-the-middle algorithm described in Wikipedia a little unclear that, how to realize it in the theoretical time complexity of $O^*(2^{n/2})$? ...
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How to trace Subset from Boolean DP table in the Subset Sum Problem
I have seen that the Subset Sum Problem can be solved using Dynamic programming and we should look up the Last row's last column to return the result.
My questions are.
How did someone conclude that ...
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How to prove the NP-completeness of MOD-PARTITION
MOD-PARTITION: Given a set of integers $A={a_1,...,a_n}$, their weights $w = \{w_1, w_2, \dots, w_n\}$ and the number $k$, does there exist a subset $X$ of $A$ such that: $(\sum_{x \in X} w(x) * x) \...
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Enumerate all valid orders of subset sums
Given an positive integer $n$, we define an order of subset sums (or simply, an order, when there is no ambiguity) to be a sequence of all subsets of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$. For example, when $n=2$, the ...
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Two versions of Subset Sum Problem
I keep seeing two versions of the Subset Sum Problem. The first and seemingly least common is:
Given an integer bound $W$ and a collection of $n$ items, each with a positive integer weight $w_i$, ...
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Subset sum problem for permutations
Given permutations $g_1,\,\ldots, g_m \in S_n$ of size $n$ and target permutation $g \in S_n$, decide if there exists a subset of $\{g_1,\, \ldots, g_m\}$, which composition in some order (or, ...
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Finding a non negative combination of integers that adds up to a certain number [duplicate]
I have a set of positive numbers: ${n_1,n_2,...n_k}$ s.t. $n_1>n_2>\dots >n_k$.
I want to find an array of non-negative integers $c_1,c_2,\dots,c_k$ such that
$$n_1c_1 + n_2c_2 + \dots + ...
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Solve SUBSET SUM for Reciprocals of Primes
Let $p_1, ..., p_n$ distinct prime numbers with $P = \prod_{i=1}^{n}{p_i}$ and $A=(a_1, ..., a_n)$ with $a_i = P/p_i$.
Problem
Show the SUBSET SUM problem $(A, \alpha)$ can be solved in polynomial (...
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Return the subset with smallest cardinality of an array whose elements sum to at least a given value
Suppose we are given an array $A[1\ldots n]$ and a value $C$.
Is there an algorithm with linear expected runtime that can produce an array that is the subset with smallest cardinality of $A[1\ldots ...
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complexity of a variant of the subset sum problem
We have a set of positive integers $N=\{a_1,...,a_n\}$, we want to select a subset $N'$ of $N$ with maximum total sum of integers such that this sum should not exceed a given integer $B$.
What is the ...
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find maximum sum of xors
we are given an Array
Array size <= 10^4 .
0 <= A[i] <= 15
We need to partition the array into 4 subsets (each subset can have zero or more elements ). Take xor of each subset and sum ...
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Minimizing the iterative sum of pairs of numbers in a list
Given the tuple (list, value):
$$\left(\left[x_1, x_2, \cdots x_n\right], y\right)$$
You may choose two adjacent values in the list to modify the tuple as:
$$\left(\left[x_1, x_2, \cdots x_{i-1}, (...
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Divide a number in k powers of 2
Example
N = 9 and K=3
4 + 4 + 1 = 9 .
What I have tried.
We can not go on dividing with 2.
We can use unbounded knapsack with array elements from 2^0 to 2^32.
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multiset variant of subset sum problem known algorithms
I have been working in the time analysis for an exact solver I designed for the subset sum problem accepting multisets as input instances, and determined its time complexity to be dependent on the ...
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Find N best subset of quotations
I am faced with the following problem;
We are provided cost quotations for shipping cost per packet by various shipping companies, let's call these quotations $Q_1 ... Q_k$.
Each Quotation is a $M \...
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Generate all combinations of values that are less than array's elements and have a sum = target
I want to find a way to generate sets that contain elements that sum to a certain target. Initially, I have an array that contains elements representing the maximum value that can be stored in that ...
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Recover boolean vector from dot products
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I want to determine a boolean vector $b \in \{0,1\}^n$ consisting of zeros and ones, but cannot access it directly. I can only call a black-box computer code which will take the dot product ...
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Finding fixed size submatrix with highest sum
I have a matrix, which has N rows and M columns. I need to find n rows and m columns, which has the highest sum. Matrix consists of positive numbers. Not optimal solutions are ok. For example N=M=4; n=...
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Prove Subset-Sum is NP-complete - Alternative reduction?
It is well known the Subset-Sum problem is NP-complete. This can be shown using a reduction from the 3SAT problem. I am wondering: is there any other NP-Complete problem that could be reduced to the ...
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Time complexity of subset sum problem with reals instead?
It is well known that the conventional subset sum problem with integers is NP-complete. What if the array elements can be any real numbers and also target sum can be any real number? Is it NP-complete ...
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Find all subsets with a given sum
How to choose from a set of positive numbers all the subsets that sum to some number x?
For example if the set $S=[1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]$ and I'm searching for all the subsets that sum to $7$ I would have $...
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Finding the Range of Solutions for KSum Variation
Preface
I asked a question before where I was looking to understand the complexity class of the following problem:
Given a range of integers $\{a,a+1,...,b-1,b\}$, find a subset of size $k$ such ...
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Counting the number of subsets with positive sum
I have some constant vector $\mathbf{s}$ on $n$ dimensions, where every element of $\mathbf{s}$ is a real number, and I would like to multiply it by every possible $n$-dimensional binary vector $\...
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Job scheduling approximation
In the course notes for Stanford MS&E-319: https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande319/lec1.pdf
Lemma 5 is given as:
The approximation factor of the modified greedy [scheduling] algorithm is 4/3....
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Partition array into k subsets
We are given an array and a number K. Partition array into K subsets such that
let MaxSum be the maximum sum of among subsets.
We have to minimize summation =$$\sum_{i=1}^{k}MaxSum-sum(i) $$
Is ...
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invariant of bin packing
We are given an array of integers and a number K. We need to pack these integers into bins. The condition is that we have to use exactly K number of bins and each bin should have equal capacity. We ...
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Given a subset of numbers $1, \dots, n$, find the minimal subset of numbers $1, \dots, n$ sums of every subset of which cover all sums of first subset
Given a subset $A = \{a_1, a_2, \dots, a_k\}$ of numbers $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$, find another subset $B = \{b_1, b_2, \dots, b_t\}$ of numbers $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ of minimal size (that is, minimise $t$)...
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Does a polynomial solution to weakly-NP Complete problem mean P = NP?
Suppose someone finds a polynomial solution to weakly-NP Complete problem does that mean P = NP.
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Subset Sum Search Problem for Input with At Most One Solution [closed]
Edit: This question has been reasked on TCS.
We first consider the search version of the subset sum problem: Given a set $S$ of $n$ naturals, find a subset of $S$ that sums to exactly $W$. My ...
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Check if K-Sum Variation is NP-Complete
Problem
Given a range of integers $\{a,a+1,...,b-1,b\}$, find a subset of size $k$ such that the sum is equal to $s$.
Question
This problem came from evaluating some scheduling algorithms that I am ...
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Intuitively, my problem is a mix of perfect hashing, tree spanning, combinatorial stuff - Ordered Decision Tree?
The problem I'm trying to solve is difficult to to give a single name, but I'll call it the ordered decision tree problem.
Imagine a row of commands:
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N subsets with a given sum?
How to efficiently Ā¹ā¾ choose from a set of numbers $S$, a given number $n$ of disjoint subsets, each with a given sum $K$ of chosen elements?
Ā¹ā¾ Not as in $P$, I just want something smarter than $O(n^...
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Find a partition of multiset of binomial coefficients with constriants
Given the multiset $S$ where the elements are defined by the binomial coefficient ${n \choose k}$ where $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and $
0\leq k \leq n$ find the partition $P$ of $S$ such that the sum of ...
