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We show that certain ways of solving some combinatorial optimization problems can be understood as using query planes to divide the space of problem instances into polyhedra that could fit into those that characterize the problem's various…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Jian Yang

Consensus problems for strings and sequences appear in numerous application contexts, ranging from bioinformatics over data mining to machine learning. Closing some gaps in the literature, we show that several fundamental problems in this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Laurent Bulteau , Vincent Froese , Rolf Niedermeier

The problem of tensor completion has applications in healthcare, computer vision, and other domains. However, past approaches to tensor completion have faced a tension in that they either have polynomial-time computation but require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Wenhao Pan , Anil Aswani , Chen Chen

The contraction cost of a tensor network depends on the contraction order. However, the optimal contraction ordering problem is known to be NP-hard. We show that the linear contraction ordering problem for tree tensor networks admits a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Mihail Stoian , Richard Milbradt , Christian B. Mendl

We prove the \textbf{NP}-hardness, using Karp reductions, of some problems related to the correlation polytope and its corresponding cone, spanned by all of the $n\times n$ rank-one matrices over $\{0,1\}$. The problems are: membership,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Alberto Caprara , Fabio Furini , Claudio Gentile , Leo Liberti , Andrea Lodi

We study tridimensional tensors on the complex field from the point of view of hypermatrices, taking into consideration the problem of determining whether they are degenerate or not, concise or not, what is their essential format if they…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alessandro Gimigliano , Monica Idà

Due to the explosive growth of large-scale data sets, tensors have been a vital tool to analyze and process high-dimensional data. Different from the matrix case, tensor decomposition has been defined in various formats, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Rachel Grotheer , Shuang Li , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Jing Qin

For a $3$-tensor of dimensions $I_1\times I_2\times I_3$, we show that the nuclear norm of its every matrix flattening is a lower bound of the tensor nuclear norm, and which in turn is upper bounded by $\sqrt{\min\{I_i : i\neq j\}}$ times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Shenglong Hu

Dimensionality reduction is an effective method for learning high-dimensional data, which can provide better understanding of decision boundaries in human-readable low-dimensional subspace. Linear methods, such as principal component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Koji Maruhashi , Heewon Park , Rui Yamaguchi , Satoru Miyano

While Spectral Methods have long been used for Principal Component Analysis, this survey focusses on work over the last 15 years with three salient features: (i) Spectral methods are useful not only for numerical problems, but also discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Ravindran Kannan

By a tensor we mean an element of a tensor product of vector spaces over a field. Up to a choice of bases in factors of tensor products, every tensor may be coordinatized, that is, represented as an array consisting of numbers. This note is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-11 R. N. Gumerov , A. S. Sharafutdinov

The concepts of P- and P$_0$-matrices are generalized to P- and P$_0$-tensors of even and odd orders via homogeneous formulae. Analog to the matrix case, our P-tensor definition encompasses many important classes of tensors such as the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Weiyang Ding , Ziyan Luo , Liqun Qi

This paper presents a method to analyze the powers of a given trilinear form (a special kind of algebraic constructions also called a tensor) and obtain upper bounds on the asymptotic complexity of matrix multiplication. Compared with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-05 François Le Gall

We give a spectral algorithm for decomposing overcomplete order-4 tensors, so long as their components satisfy an algebraic non-degeneracy condition that holds for nearly all (all but an algebraic set of measure $0$) tensors over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Samuel B. Hopkins , Tselil Schramm , Jonathan Shi

In this paper we study the {\it bilinear assignment problem} (BAP) with size parameters $m$ and $n$, $m\leq n$. BAP is a generalization of the well known quadratic assignment problem and the three dimensional assignment problem and hence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Ante Ćustić , Vladyslav Sokol , Abraham P. Punnen , Binay Bhattacharya

We study the problem of computing minimal distinguishing formulas for non-bisimilar states in finite LTSs. We show that this is NP-hard if the size of the formula must be minimal. Similarly, the existence of a short distinguishing trace is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jan Martens , Jan Friso Groote

This paper begins with a class of convex quadratic programs (QPs) with bounded variables solvable by the parametric principal pivoting algorithm with $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ strongly polynomial complexity, where $n$ is the number of variables of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Jong-Shi Pang , Shaoning Han

While multilinear algebra appears natural for studying the multiway interactions modeled by hypergraphs, tensor methods for general hypergraphs have been stymied by theoretical and practical barriers. A recently proposed adjacency tensor is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Sinan G. Aksoy , Ilya Amburg , Stephen J. Young

This project investigates the potential of computers to solve complex tasks such as games. The paper proves that the complexity of a generalized version of spider solitaire is NP-Complete and uses much of structure of the proof that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-06 Jesse Stern

Given a linear equation L, a set A of integers is L-free if A does not contain any non-trivial solutions to L. Meeks and Treglown showed that for certain kinds of linear equations, it is NP-complete to decide if a given set of integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Keith J. Edwards , Steven D. Noble