NP-hardness of p-adic linear regression
Computational Complexity
2026-02-17 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
-adic linear regression is the problem of finding coefficients that minimise . We prove that computing an optimal solution is NP-hard via a polynomial-time reduction from Max Cut using a regularisation gadget.
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@article{arxiv.2602.13278,
title = {NP-hardness of p-adic linear regression},
author = {Gregory D. Baker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13278},
year = {2026}
}
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