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We show that computing even very coarse approximations of critical points is intractable for simple classes of nonconvex functions. More concretely, we prove that if there exists a polynomial-time algorithm that takes as input a polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

Uniform sampling and approximate counting are fundamental primitives for modern database applications, ranging from query optimization to approximate query processing. While recent breakthroughs have established optimal sampling and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xiao Hu , Jinchao Huang

This application for learning APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM has been designed in Java which will make user comfortable in learning the very complex subject "NP-Completeness" and the solution to NP-Complete problem using approximation algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Chiranjeev Kumar

#SMT, or model counting for logical theories, is a well-known hard problem that generalizes such tasks as counting the number of satisfying assignments to a Boolean formula and computing the volume of a polytope. In the realm of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Dmitry Chistikov , Rayna Dimitrova , Rupak Majumdar

Matrices with low numerical rank are omnipresent in many signal processing and data analysis applications. The pivoted QLP (p-QLP) algorithm constructs a highly accurate approximation to an input low-rank matrix. However, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Maboud F. Kaloorazi , Jie Chen

Many quantum algorithms for ground-state preparation and energy estimation require the implementation of high-degree polynomials of a Hamiltonian to achieve better convergence rates. Their circuit implementation typically relies on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Youngjun Park , Minhyeok Kang , Chae-Yeun Park , Joonsuk Huh

We present a swift walk-through of our recent work that uses machine learning to fit interatomic potentials based on quantum mechanical data. We describe our Gaussian Approximation Potentials (GAP) framework, discussing a variety of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-06 Albert P. Bartók , Gábor Csányi

Quantum machine learning (QML), as an interdisciplinary field bridging quantum computing and machine learning, has garnered significant attention in recent years. Currently, the field as a whole faces challenges due to incomplete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Jialiang Tang , Jialin Zhang , Xiaoming Sun

Asymptotic approximations of Jacobi polynomials are given in terms of elementary functions for large degree $n$ and parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$. From these new results, asymptotic expansions of the zeros are derived and methods are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Amparo Gil , Javier Segura , Nico M. Temme

Quantum neural networks (QNN) have been proposed as a promising architecture for quantum machine learning. There exist a number of different quantum circuit designs being branded as QNNs, however no clear candidate has presented itself as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Samuel A Wilkinson , Michael J Hartmann

We provide evidence that it is computationally difficult to approximate the partition function of the ferromagnetic q-state Potts model when q>2. Specifically we show that the partition function is hard for the complexity class #RHPi_1…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

In the first 36 pages of this paper, we provide polynomial quantum algorithms for additive approximations of the Tutte polynomial, at any point in the Tutte plane, for any planar graph. This includes as special cases the AJL algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Elad Eban , Zeph Landau

The complexity of quantum computation remains poorly understood. While physicists attempt to find ways to create quantum computers, we still do not have much evidence one way or the other as to how useful these machines will be. The tools…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lance Fortnow

Function approximation is a generic process in a variety of computational problems, from data interpolation to the solution of differential equations and inverse problems. In this work, a unified approach for such techniques is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Nikolaos P. Bakas

A deep approximation is an approximating function defined by composing more than one layer of simple functions. We study deep approximations of functions of one variable using layers consisting of low-degree polynomials or simple conformal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Kingsley Yeon

We study the problem of approximating the Ising model partition function with complex parameters on bounded degree graphs. We establish a deterministic polynomial-time approximation scheme for the partition function when the interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Ryan L. Mann , Michael J. Bremner

Given an integral domain $A$, a monic polynomial $P$ of degree $n$ with coefficients in $A$ and a divisor $p$ of $n$, invertible in $A$, there is a unique monic polynomial $Q$ such that the degree of $P-Q^{p}$ is minimal for varying $Q$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Patrick Popescu-Pampu

We explore an algorithm for approximating roots of integers, discuss its motivation and derivation, and analyze its convergence rates with varying parameters and inputs. We also perform comparisons with established methods for approximating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-11 William Gerst

We study the query complexity of computing a function f:{0,1}^n-->R_+ in expectation. This requires the algorithm on input x to output a nonnegative random variable whose expectation equals f(x), using as few queries to the input x as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Jedrzej Kaniewski , Troy Lee , Ronald de Wolf

Let $A$ be an $s$-sparse Hermitian matrix, $f(x)$ be a univariate function, and $i, j$ be two indices. In this work, we investigate the query complexity of approximating $\bra{i} f(A) \ket{j}$. We show that for any continuous function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao