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We study Sparse Multiple Kernel Learning (SMKL), which is the problem of selecting a sparse convex combination of prespecified kernels for support vector binary classification. Unlike prevailing l1 regularized approaches that approximate a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Dimitris Bertsimas , Caio de Prospero Iglesias , Nicholas A. G. Johnson

We consider the parameterized verification problem for distributed algorithms where the goal is to develop techniques to prove the correctness of a given algorithm regardless of the number of participating processes. Motivated by an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nathalie Bertrand , Nicolas Markey , Ocan Sankur , Nicolas Waldburger

This paper introduces an approach for detecting differences in the first-order structures of spatial point patterns. The proposed approach leverages the kernel mean embedding in a novel way by introducing its approximate version tailored to…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-15 Raif M. Rustamov , James T. Klosowski

We give the proof of a tight lower bound on the probability that a binomial random variable exceeds its expected value. The inequality plays an important role in a variety of contexts, including the analysis of relative deviation bounds in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Spencer Greenberg , Mehryar Mohri

Structural graph parameters play an important role in parameterized complexity, including in kernelization. Notably, vertex cover, neighborhood diversity, twin-cover, and modular-width have been studied extensively in the last few years.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Manuel Lafond , Weidong Luo

Asking which sets are fixed-parameter tractable for a given parameterization constitutes much of the current research in parameterized complexity theory. This approach faces some of the core difficulties in complexity theory. By focussing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Jouke Witteveen , Leen Torenvliet

Kernel-based approach to operator approximation for partial differential equations has been shown to be unconditionally stable for linear PDEs and numerically exhibit unconditional stability for non-linear PDEs. These methods have the same…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Andrew Christlieb , Sining Gong , Hyoseon Yang

We show that Closest Substring, one of the most important problems in the field of biological sequence analysis, is W[1]-hard when parameterized by the number k of input strings (and remains so, even over a binary alphabet). This problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael R. Fellows , Jens Gramm , Rolf Niedermeier

Until recently, techniques for obtaining lower bounds for kernelization were one of the most sought after tools in the field of parameterized complexity. Now, after a strong influx of techniques, we are in the fortunate situation of having…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Stefan Kratsch

In this work, we initiate the complexity study of Biclique Contraction and Balanced Biclique Contraction. In these problems, given as input a graph G and an integer k, the objective is to determine whether one can contract at most k edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-15 R. Krithika , V. K. Kutty Malu , Roohani Sharma , Prafullkumar Tale

Set Disjointness on a Line is a variant of the Set Disjointness problem in a distributed computing scenario with $d+1$ processors arranged on a path of length $d$. It was introduced by Le Gall and Magniez (PODC 2018) for proving lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Frederic Magniez , Ashwin Nayak

In this work, we broadly connect kernel-based filtering (e.g. approaches such as the bilateral filters and nonlocal means, but also many more) with general variational formulations of Bayesian regularized least squares, and the related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Frank Ong , Peyman Milanfar , Pascal Getreuer

A fertile area of recent research has demonstrated concrete polynomial time lower bounds for solving natural hard problems on restricted computational models. Among these problems are Satisfiability, Vertex Cover, Hamilton Path, Mod6-SAT,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Ryan Williams

The variation of spectral subspaces for linear self-adjoint operators under an additive bounded off-diagonal perturbation is studied. To this end, the optimization approach for general perturbations in [J. Anal. Math., to appear;…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Albrecht Seelmann

Different techniques have been used to prove several transference theorems of the form "nontrivial algorithms for a circuit class C yield circuit lower bounds against C". In this survey we revisit many of these results. We discuss how…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Igor C. Oliveira

This paper studies randomized polynomial kernelization for the weighted $d$-matroid intersection problem. While the problem is known to have a kernel of size $O(d^{(k - 1)d})$ where $k$ is the solution size, the existence of a polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura , Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

Kernel matrices, as well as weighted graphs represented by them, are ubiquitous objects in machine learning, statistics and other related fields. The main drawback of using kernel methods (learning and inference using kernel matrices) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ainesh Bakshi , Piotr Indyk , Praneeth Kacham , Sandeep Silwal , Samson Zhou

In parameterized algorithmics, the process of kernelization is defined as a polynomial time algorithm that transforms the instance of a given problem to an equivalent instance of a size that is limited by a function of the parameter. As,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Jouke Witteveen , Ralph Bottesch , Leen Torenvliet

In this paper, we consider a variant of the classical algorithmic problem of checking whether a given word $v$ is a subsequence of another word $w$. More precisely, we consider the problem of deciding, given a number $p$ (defining a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Maria Kosche , Tore Koß , Florin Manea , Viktoriya Pak

Meta-kernelization theorems are general results that provide polynomial kernels for large classes of parameterized problems. The known meta-kernelization theorems, in particular the results of Bodlaender et al. (FOCS'09) and of Fomin et al.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Robert Ganian , Friedrich Slivovsky , Stefan Szeider