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The best polynomial approximation and Chebyshev approximation are both important in numerical analysis. In tradition, the best approximation is regarded as more better than the Chebyshev approximation, because it is usually considered in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Xiaolong Zhang

Polynomial solving algorithms are essential to applied mathematics and the sciences. As such, reduction of their complexity has become an incredibly important field of topological research. We present a topological approach to constructing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Parth Sarin

This paper concerns algorithms that give correct answers with (asymptotic) density $1$. A dense description of a function $g : \omega \to \omega$ is a partial function $f$ on $\omega$ such that $\left\{n : f(n) = g(n)\right\}$ has density…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Eric P. Astor , Denis R. Hirschfeldt , Carl G. Jockusch

Polynomial threshold gates are basic processing units of an artificial neural network. When the input vectors are binary vectors, these gates correspond to Boolean functions and can be analyzed via their polynomial representations. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Yi Ming Zou

We study the close connection between rational functions that approximate a given Boolean function, and quantum algorithms that compute the same function using postselection. We show that the minimal degree of the former equals (up to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Urmila Mahadev , Ronald de Wolf

In this paper we study the separation between two complexity measures: the degree of a Boolean function as a polynomial over the reals and its block sensitivity. We show that separation between these two measures can be improved from $…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nikolay V. Proskurin

We introduce a subexponential algorithm for geometric solving of multivariate polynomial equation systems whose bit complexity depends mainly on intrinsic geometric invariants of the solution set. From this algorithm, we derive a new…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 M. Giusti , J. Heintz , K. Hägele , J. E. Morais , L. M. Pardo , J. L. Montaña

We present a quantum algorithm for approximating the linear structures of a Boolean function $f$. Different from previous algorithms (such as Simon's and Shor's algorithms) which rely on restrictions on the Boolean function, our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Hong-Wei Li , Li Yang

The noise sensitivity of a Boolean function $f: \{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ is one of its fundamental properties. A function of a positive noise parameter $\delta$, it is denoted as $NS_{\delta}[f]$. Here we study the algorithmic problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

For a function $f$ that is piecewise analytic on a quasi-smooth arc $\mathcal{L}$ and any $0<\sigma<1$ we construct a sequence of "near-best" polynomials that converge at a rate $e^{-n^{\sigma}}$ at each point of analyticity of $f$ and are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Liudmyla Kryvonos

Trigonometric polynomials are widely used for the approximation of a smooth function $f$ from a set of nonuniformly spaced samples $\{f(x_j)\}_{j=0}^{N-1}$. If the samples are perturbed by noise, controlling the smoothness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Thomas Strohmer

The algebraic degree is an important parameter of Boolean functions used in cryptography. When a function in a large number of variables is not given explicitly in algebraic normal form, it might not be feasible to compute its degree.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ana Salagean , Percy Reyes-Paredes

We consider an algorithm to approximate complex-valued periodic functions $f(e^{i\theta})$ as a matrix element of a product of $SU(2)$-valued functions, which underlies so-called quantum signal processing. We prove that the algorithm runs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Jeongwan Haah

Determining the optimal fidelity for the transmission of quantum information over noisy quantum channels is one of the central problems in quantum information theory. Recently, [Berta-Borderi-Fawzi-Scholz, Mathematical Programming, 2021]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yeow Meng Chee , Hoang Ta , Van Khu Vu

In this paper we present several heuristic algorithms, including a Genetic Algorithm (GA), for obtaining polynomial threshold function (PTF) representations of Boolean functions (BFs) with small number of monomials. We compare these among…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Can Eren Sezener , Erhan Oztop

We prove lower bounds on complexity measures, such as the approximate degree of a Boolean function and the approximate rank of a Boolean matrix, using quantum arguments. We prove these lower bounds using a quantum query algorithm for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Shalev Ben-David , Adam Bouland , Ankit Garg , Robin Kothari

We consider the following basic problem: given an $n$-variate degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomial $f$ with real coefficients, compute a unit vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ that maximizes $|f(x)|$. Besides its fundamental nature, this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Mrinalkanti Ghosh , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Madhur Tulsiani

We present new algorithms for estimating and testing \emph{collision probability}, a fundamental measure of the spread of a discrete distribution that is widely used in many scientific fields. We describe an algorithm that satisfies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-21 Robert Busa-Fekete , Umar Syed

We study the polynomial approximation of symmetric multivariate functions and of multi-set functions. Specifically, we consider $f(x_1, \dots, x_N)$, where $x_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$, and $f$ is invariant under permutations of its $N$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Markus Bachmayr , Geneviève Dusson , Christoph Ortner , Jack Thomas

Approximating a univariate function on the interval $[-1,1]$ with a polynomial is among the most classical problems in numerical analysis. When the function evaluations come with noise, a least-squares fit is known to reduce the effect of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Takeru Matsuda , Yuji Nakatsukasa