With the RAMpocalypse in full swing, a common sentiment on the GDC floor is that optimization has never been more important.

Through the looking glass: In a field increasingly defined by quantum experiments and exotic materials, a physics team at Queen's University in Canada has shown that innovation can also come from the ...

Abstract: This article studies the two-dimensional (2-D) rectangle packing area minimization problem (RPAMP), a key subproblem in floor planning for very large-scale integration (VLSI) chip design.

Optimization problems often involve situations in which the user's goal is to minimize and/or maximize not a single objective function, but several, usually conflicting, functions simultaneously. Such ...

Learn how to find the largest possible rectangle that can fit inside a 3-4-5 right triangle using clear geometric reasoning and simple math. This explanation walks through the setup, key constraints, ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

This is the official implementation of our ICLR 2025 paper "UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP". Fig 1. The 3-step workflow of the UniCO ...

Palo Alto, California-based D-Wave Quantum Inc. claims to be the first company that sells computers that leverage quantum effects in their operation. The company recently demonstrated how its quantum ...

ABSTRACT: State-of-the-art antenna design and optimization (D/O) is increasingly being done using Global Search and Optimization (GSO) algorithms such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm ...

Imagine a Congress where politicians of different ideologies work together to pass legislation reflecting what most Americans want. This isn’t hypothetical; it’s how Congress worked for much of the ...