{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/exact-counting-and-sampling-of-optima-for-the","title":"Exact Counting and Sampling of Optima for the Knapsack Problem","arxiv_id":"2106.07412","date":"2021-06-14","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jakob Bossek","Aneta Neumann","Frank Neumann"],"abstract":"Computing sets of high quality solutions has gained increasing interest in recent years. In this paper, we investigate how to obtain sets of optimal solutions for the classical knapsack problem. We present an algorithm to count exactly the number of optima to a zero-one knapsack problem instance. In addition, we show how to efficiently sample uniformly at random from the set of all global optima. In our experimental study, we investigate how the number of optima develops for classical random benchmark instances dependent on their generator parameters. We find that the number of global optima can increase exponentially for practically relevant classes of instances with correlated weights and profits which poses a justification for the considered exact counting problem.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07412v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.07412v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"exact-counting-and-sampling-of-optima-for-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/jakobbossek/LION2021-knapsack-exact-counting","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}