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NP-hardness of p-adic linear regression

Computational Complexity 2026-02-17 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

pp-adic linear regression is the problem of finding coefficients β\beta that minimise iyixiβp\sum_i |y_i - x_i^\top\beta|_p. 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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9 pages

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