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We study the parameterized complexity of the following fundamental geometric problems with respect to the dimension $d$: i) Given $n$ points in $\Rd$, compute their minimum enclosing cylinder. ii) Given two $n$-point sets in $\Rd$, decide…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Panos Giannopoulos , Christian Knauer , Gunter Rote , Daniel Werner

Given a set S of n \geq d points in general position in R^d, a random hyperplane split is obtained by sampling d points uniformly at random without replacement from S and splitting based on their affine hull. A random hyperplane search tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Luc Devroye , James King

We establish new exponential in dimension lower bounds for the Maximum Halfspace Discrepancy problem, which models linear classification. Both are fundamental problems in computational geometry and machine learning in their exact and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Alexander Munteanu , Simon Omlor , Jeff M. Phillips

We explain how to use Kolmogorov Superposition Theorem (KST) to break the curse of dimensionality when approximating a dense class of multivariate continuous functions. We first show that there is a class of functions called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Ming-Jun Lai , Zhaiming Shen

High-dimensional dense embeddings have become central to modern Information Retrieval, but many dimensions are noisy or redundant. Recently proposed DIME (Dimension IMportance Estimation), provides query-dependent scores to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Giulio D'Erasmo , Cesare Campagnano , Antonio Mallia , Pierpaolo Brutti , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

High-dimensional data and high-dimensional representations of reality are inherent features of modern Artificial Intelligence systems and applications of machine learning. The well-known phenomenon of the "curse of dimensionality" states:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Alexander N. Gorban , Valery A. Makarov , Ivan Y. Tyukin

Randomized dimensionality reduction is a widely-used algorithmic technique for speeding up large-scale Euclidean optimization problems. In this paper, we study dimension reduction for a variety of maximization problems, including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jie Gao , Rajesh Jayaram , Benedikt Kolbe , Shay Sapir , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Sandeep Silwal , Erik Waingarten

Particle filters are a popular and flexible class of numerical algorithms to solve a large class of nonlinear filtering problems. However, standard particle filters with importance weights have been shown to require a sample size that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Simone Carlo Surace , Anna Kutschireiter , Jean-Pascal Pfister

We consider an \eps-approximation by n-term partial sums of the Karhunen-Lo\`eve expansion to d-parametric random fields of tensor product-type in the average case setting. We investigate the behavior, as d tends to infinity, of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-15 N. Serdyukova

Why does the low dimensionality of representations, typically $d\approx 1000$, not prevent modern embedding-based retrieval models from scaling to billions, or even trillions, of data points? To answer this question, we study maximal-margin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kiril Bangachev , Guy Bresler , Jonathan Kogan , Yury Polyanskiy

Curse of Dimensionality is an unavoidable challenge in statistical probability models, yet diffusion models seem to overcome this limitation, achieving impressive results in high-dimensional data generation. Diffusion models assume that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Zhenxin Zheng , Zhenjie Zheng

Difficulties in replication and reproducibility of empirical evidences in machine learning research have become a prominent topic in recent years. Ensuring that machine learning research results are sound and reliable requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Tobias Hille , Maximilian Stubbemann , Tom Hanika

Contextual bandits are a central framework for sequential decision-making, with applications ranging from recommendation systems to clinical trials. While nonparametric methods can flexibly model complex reward structures, they suffer from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Wanteng Ma , T. Tony Cai

In modern science the efficient numerical treatment of high-dimensional problems becomes more and more important. A fundamental insight of the theory of information-based complexity (IBC for short) is that the computational hardness of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Markus Weimar

MR fingerprinting (MRF) is a rapid growing approach for fast quantitave MRI. A typical drawback of dictionary-based MRF is its explosion in size as a function of the number of reconstructed parameters, according to the curse of…

In this paper we consider PIDEs with gradient-independent Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities and prove that deep neural networks with ReLU activation function can approximate solutions of such semilinear PIDEs without curse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Ariel Neufeld , Tuan Anh Nguyen , Sizhou Wu

We study the complexity of geometric problems on spaces of low fractal dimension. It was recently shown by [Sidiropoulos & Sridhar, SoCG 2017] that several problems admit improved solutions when the input is a pointset in Euclidean space…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Kritika Singhal , Vijay Sridhar

A decision tree recursively splits a feature space $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ and then assigns class labels based on the resulting partition. Decision trees have been part of the basic machine-learning toolkit for decades. A large body of work treats…

Packing is a classical problem where one is given a set of subsets of Euclidean space called objects, and the goal is to find a maximum size subset of objects that are pairwise non-intersecting. The problem is also known as the Independent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Dániel Marx , Tom C. van der Zanden

We study the asymptotic behavior of least-squares cross-validation bandwidth selection in kernel density estimation on the $d$-dimensional hypersphere, $d\geq 1$. We show that the exact rate of convergence with respect to the optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-29 José E. Chacón , Eduardo García-Portugués , Andrea Meilán-Vila