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Main Authors: Elder, C. S., Marçais, Guillaume, Kingsford, Carl
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18283
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author Elder, C. S.
Marçais, Guillaume
Kingsford, Carl
author_facet Elder, C. S.
Marçais, Guillaume
Kingsford, Carl
contents We study Turnpike with uncertain measurements: reconstructing a one-dimensional point set from an unlabeled multiset of pairwise distances under bounded noise and rounding. We give a combinatorial characterization of realizability via a multi-matching that labels interval indices by distinct distance values while satisfying all triangle equalities. This yields an ILP based on the triangle equality whose constraint structure depends only on the two-partition set $\mathcal{P}_y=\{(r,s,t): y_r+y_s=y_t\}$ and a natural LP relaxation with $\{0,1\}$-coefficient constraints. Integral solutions certify realizability and output an explicit assignment matrix, enabling an assignment-first, regression-second pipeline for downstream coordinate estimation. Under bounded noise followed by rounding, we prove a deterministic separation condition under which $\mathcal{P}_y$ is recovered exactly, so the ILP/LP receives the same combinatorial input as in the noiseless case. Experiments illustrate integrality behavior and degradation outside the provable regime.
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spellingShingle Turnpike with Uncertain Measurements: Triangle-Equality ILP with a Deterministic Recovery Guarantee
Elder, C. S.
Marçais, Guillaume
Kingsford, Carl
Computational Geometry
Data Structures and Algorithms
Optimization and Control
90C10, 90C05, 05B35, 68R10
G.1.6; F.2.2; I.3.5
We study Turnpike with uncertain measurements: reconstructing a one-dimensional point set from an unlabeled multiset of pairwise distances under bounded noise and rounding. We give a combinatorial characterization of realizability via a multi-matching that labels interval indices by distinct distance values while satisfying all triangle equalities. This yields an ILP based on the triangle equality whose constraint structure depends only on the two-partition set $\mathcal{P}_y=\{(r,s,t): y_r+y_s=y_t\}$ and a natural LP relaxation with $\{0,1\}$-coefficient constraints. Integral solutions certify realizability and output an explicit assignment matrix, enabling an assignment-first, regression-second pipeline for downstream coordinate estimation. Under bounded noise followed by rounding, we prove a deterministic separation condition under which $\mathcal{P}_y$ is recovered exactly, so the ILP/LP receives the same combinatorial input as in the noiseless case. Experiments illustrate integrality behavior and degradation outside the provable regime.
title Turnpike with Uncertain Measurements: Triangle-Equality ILP with a Deterministic Recovery Guarantee
topic Computational Geometry
Data Structures and Algorithms
Optimization and Control
90C10, 90C05, 05B35, 68R10
G.1.6; F.2.2; I.3.5
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18283