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We investigate the problem of determining a set S of k indistinguishable integers in the range [1,n]. The algorithm is allowed to query an integer $q\in [1,n]$, and receive a response comparing this integer to an integer randomly chosen…

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The $k$-means algorithm (Lloyd's algorithm) is a widely used method for clustering unlabeled data. A key bottleneck of the $k$-means algorithm is that each iteration requires time linear in the number of data points, which can be expensive…

This paper reformulates the problem of finding a longest common increasing subsequence of the two given input sequences in a very succinct way. An extremely simple linear space algorithm based on the new formula can find a longest common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Tinran Wang , Xiaodong Wang

In the Interval Completion problem we are given a graph G and an integer k, and the task is to turn G using at most k edge additions into an interval graph, i.e., a graph admitting an intersection model of intervals on a line. Motivated by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ivan Bliznets , Fedor V. Fomin , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangke Cheng , Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Hu Ding

We give a quantum approximation scheme (i.e., $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation for every $\varepsilon > 0$) for the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the QRAM model with a running time that has only polylogarithmic dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ragesh Jaiswal

We consider the \textsf{Unit Interval Selection} problem in the one-pass random order streaming model. Here, an algorithm is presented a sequence of $n$ unit-length intervals on the line that arrive in uniform random order, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Adithya Diddapur , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

In this work we present a new simple but efficient scheme - Subsquares approach - for development of algorithms for enclosing the solution set of overdetermined interval linear systems. We are going to show two algorithms based on this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Jaroslav Horáček , Milan Hladík

We study (Euclidean) $k$-median and $k$-means with constraints in the streaming model. There have been recent efforts to design unified algorithms to solve constrained $k$-means problems without using knowledge of the specific constraint at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

We present new data structures for approximately counting the number of points in orthogonal range. There is a deterministic linear space data structure that supports updates in O(1) time and approximates the number of elements in a 1-D…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Yakov Nekrich

We consider the classic Facility Location, $k$-Median, and $k$-Means problems in metric spaces of doubling dimension $d$. We give nearly linear-time approximation schemes for each problem. The complexity of our algorithms is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Andreas Emil Feldmann , David Saulpic

There is growing interest in improving our algorithmic understanding of fundamental statistical problems such as mean estimation, driven by the goal of understanding the limits of what we can extract from valuable data. The state of the art…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Trung Dang , Jasper C. H. Lee , Maoyuan Song , Paul Valiant

Karpinski and Nekrich (2008) introduced the problem of parameterized range majority, which asks to preprocess a string of length $n$ such that, given the endpoints of a range, one can quickly find all the distinct elements whose relative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Djamal Belazzougui , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro

We propose an exact polynomial algorithm for a resource allocation problem with convex costs and constraints on partial sums of resource consumptions, in the presence of either continuous or integer variables. No assumption of strict…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Thibaut Vidal , Patrick Jaillet , Nelson Maculan

In this paper, we present a new iterative rounding framework for many clustering problems. Using this, we obtain an $(\alpha_1 + \epsilon \leq 7.081 + \epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for $k$-median with outliers, greatly improving upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Shi Li , Sai Sandeep

We study the problem of finding monotone subsequences in an array from the viewpoint of sublinear algorithms. For fixed $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, we show that the non-adaptive query complexity of finding a length-$k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Clément L. Canonne , Shoham Letzter , Erik Waingarten

Allen's interval algebra is one of the most well-known calculi in qualitative temporal reasoning with numerous applications in artificial intelligence. Recently, there has been a surge of improvements in the fine-grained complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist

Matrix completion is the problem of recovering a low rank matrix by observing a small fraction of its entries. A series of recent works [KOM12,JNS13,HW14] have proposed fast non-convex optimization based iterative algorithms to solve this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli

The original description of the k-d tree recognized that rebalancing techniques, such as are used to build an AVL tree or a red-black tree, are not applicable to a k-d tree. Hence, in order to build a balanced k-d tree, it is necessary to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Russell A. Brown

We present a framework for computing with input data specified by intervals, representing uncertainty in the values of the input parameters. To compute a solution, the algorithm can query the input parameters that yield more refined…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Manoj Gupta , Yogish Sabharwal , Sandeep Sen