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An influential result by Dor, Halperin, and Zwick (FOCS 1996, SICOMP 2000) implies an algorithm that can compute approximate shortest paths for all vertex pairs in $\tilde{O}(n^{2+O\left(\frac{1}{k}\right )})$ time, ensuring that the output…

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Graph-based nearest neighbor search methods have seen a surge of popularity in recent years, offering state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications. Central to these methods is the task of constructing a sparse…

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In this short paper, we present an improved algorithm for approximating the minimum cut on distributed (CONGEST) networks. Let $\lambda$ be the minimum cut. Our algorithm can compute $\lambda$ exactly in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Danupon Nanongkai

In this paper, we study the following problem of reconstructing a simple polygon: Given a cyclically ordered vertex sequence of an unknown simple polygon P of n vertices and, for each vertex v of P, the sequence of angles defined by all the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Danny Z. Chen , Haitao Wang

We propose a recursive lattice reduction framework for finding short non-zero vectors or dense sublattices of a lattice. The framework works by recursively searching for dense sublattices of dense sublattices (or their duals) with…

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A new, fast second-order method is proposed that achieves the optimal $\mathcal{O}\left(|\log(\epsilon)|\epsilon^{-3/2}\right)$ complexity to obtain first-order $\epsilon$-stationary points. Crucially, this is deduced without assuming the…

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A lattice is a set of all the integer linear combinations of certain linearly independent vectors. One of the most important concepts on lattice is the successive minima which is of vital importance from both theoretical and practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Jinming Wen

Let $S(A)$ denote the orbit of a complex or real matrix $A$ under a certain equivalence relation such as unitary similarity, unitary equivalence, unitary congruences etc. Efficient gradient-flow algorithms are constructed to determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-07 C. K. Li , Y. T. Poon , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen

One of the landmarks in approximation algorithms is the $O(\sqrt{\log n})$-approximation algorithm for the Uniform Sparsest Cut problem by Arora, Rao and Vazirani from 2004. The algorithm is based on a semidefinite program that finds an…

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Persistence diagrams are important tools in the field of topological data analysis that describe the presence and magnitude of features in a filtered topological space. However, current approaches for comparing a persistence diagram to a…

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We study a path-planning problem amid a set $\mathcal{O}$ of obstacles in $\mathbb{R}^2$, in which we wish to compute a short path between two points while also maintaining a high clearance from $\mathcal{O}$; the clearance of a point is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Kyle Fox , Oren Salzman

We consider the problem of revealing a small hidden lattice from the knowledge of a low-rank sublattice modulo a given sufficiently large integer -- the {\em Hidden Lattice Problem}. A central motivation of study for this problem is the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Luca Notarnicola , Gabor Wiese

In this article, we consider the problem of approximating a finite set of data (usually huge in applications) by invariant subspaces generated through a small set of smooth functions. The invariance is either by translations under a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Davide Barbieri , Eugenio Hernández , Carlos Cabrelli , Ursula Molter

We present a novel iterative algorithm for approximating the linear least squares solution with low complexity. After a motivation of the algorithm we discuss the algorithm's properties including its complexity, and we present theoretical…

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A procedure for the construction and the classification of multilattices in arbitrary dimension is proposed. The algorithm allows to determine explicitly the location of the points of a multilattice given its space group, and to determine…

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We describe algorithms which address two classical problems in lattice geometry: the lattice covering and the simultaneous lattice packing-covering problem. Theoretically our algorithms solve the two problems in any fixed dimension d in the…

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We present a deterministic O(n log log n) time algorithm for finding shortest cycles and minimum cuts in planar graphs. The algorithm improves the previously known fastest algorithm by Italiano et al. in STOC'11 by a factor of log n. This…

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This paper describes novel and fast, simple and robust algorithm with O(N) expected complexity which enables to decrease run-time needed to find an exact maximum distance of two points in E2. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Vaclav Skala

We present an algorithm that computes a shortest non-contractible and a shortest non-separating cycle on an orientable combinatorial surface of bounded genus in O(n \log n) time, where n denotes the complexity of the surface. This solves a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Kutz

An efficient algorithm is presented to simulate the O(N) loop model on the square lattice for arbitrary values of $N>0$. The scheme combines the worm algorithm with a new data structure to resolve both the problem of loop crossings and the…

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