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In combinatorics, the probabilistic method is a very powerful tool to prove the existence of combinatorial objects with interesting and useful properties. Explicit constructions of objects with such properties are often very difficult, or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Luca Trevisan

In this paper, we present fixed-parameter tractability algorithms for both the undirected and directed versions of the Spanning Tree Isomorphism Problem, parameterized by the size $k$ of a redundant set. A redundant set is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Fangjian Shen , Yicheng Zheng , Wushao Wen , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

This article expands our work in [Ca16]. By its reliance on Turing computability, the classical theory of effectivity, along with effective reducibility and Weihrauch reducibility, is only applicable to objects that are either countable or…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

Kolmogorov complexity measures the algorithmic complexity of a finite binary string $\sigma$ in terms of the length of the shortest description $\sigma^*$ of $\sigma$. Traditionally, the length of a string is taken to measure the amount of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Cameron Fraize , Christopher P. Porter

Form a random k-SAT formula on n variables by selecting uniformly and independently m=rn clauses out of all 2^k (n choose k) possible k-clauses. The Satisfiability Threshold Conjecture asserts that for each k there exists a constant r_k…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 Dimitris Achlioptas , Cristopher Moore

We study low rank approximation of tensors, focusing on the tensor train and Tucker decompositions, as well as approximations with tree tensor networks and more general tensor networks. For tensor train decomposition, we give a bicriteria…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Arvind V. Mahankali , David P. Woodruff , Ziyu Zhang

We identify string corrections to the EM memory effect. Though largely negligible in the low-energy limit, the effect become relevant in high-energy collisions and in extreme events. We illustrate our findings in a simple unoriented bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Alice Aldi , Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta

Let F be a uniformly distributed random k-SAT formula with n variables and m clauses. Non-constructive arguments show that F is satisfiable for clause/variable ratios m/n< r(k)~2^k ln 2 with high probability. Yet no efficient algorithm is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Amin Coja-Oghlan

This study investigates whether reoptimization can help in solving the closest substring problem. We are dealing with the following reoptimization scenario. Suppose, we have an optimal l-length closest substring of a given set of sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jhoirene B. Clemente , Henry N. Adorna

A 'degenerate string' is a sequence of subsets of some alphabet; it represents any string obtainable by selecting one character from each set from left to right. Recently, Alanko et al. generalized the rank-select problem to degenerate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Tord Stordalen

This work considers polynomial optimization problems where the objective admits a low-rank canonical polyadic tensor decomposition. We introduce LRPOP (low-rank polynomial optimization), a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Llorenç Balada Gaggioli , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda

Kernelization is an important tool in parameterized algorithmics. Given an input instance accompanied by a parameter, the goal is to compute in polynomial time an equivalent instance of the same problem such that the size of the reduced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Till Fluschnik , George B. Mertzios , André Nichterlein

We recall the classical formulation of PageRank as the stationary distribution of a singularly perturbed irreducible Markov chain that is not irreducible when the perturbation parameter goes to zero. Specifically, we use the Markov chain…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Vivek S Borkar , S Sowmya , Raghavendra Tripathi

We give a quantum reduction from finding short codewords in a random linear code to decoding for the Hamming metric. This is the first time such a reduction (classical or quantum) has been obtained. Our reduction adapts to linear codes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Thomas Debris-Alazard , Maxime Remaud , Jean-Pierre Tillich

A determinantal point process (DPP) on a collection of $M$ items is a model, parameterized by a symmetric kernel matrix, that assigns a probability to every subset of those items. Recent work shows that removing the kernel symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Insu Han , Mike Gartrell , Jennifer Gillenwater , Elvis Dohmatob , Amin Karbasi

In recent works on the theory of machine learning, it has been observed that heavy tail properties of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) can be studied in the probabilistic framework of stochastic recursions. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-22 Ewa Damek , Sebastian Mentemeier

Grammar-based compression is a widely-accepted model of string compression that allows for efficient and direct manipulations on the compressed data. Most, if not all, such manipulations rely on the primitive \emph{random access} queries, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Alan M. Cleary , Joseph Winjum , Jordan Dood , Shunsuke Inenaga

Bottom-Up Hidden Tree Markov Model is a highly expressive model for tree-structured data. Unfortunately, it cannot be used in practice due to the intractable size of its state-transition matrix. We propose a new approximation which lies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Daniele Castellana , Davide Bacciu

The notion of Turing kernelization investigates whether a polynomial-time algorithm can solve an NP-hard problem, when it is aided by an oracle that can be queried for the answers to bounded-size subproblems. One of the main open problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Bart M. P. Jansen , Marcin Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is a well-known approach for solving linear least-squares problems with a large number of rows. RK accesses and processes just one row at a time, leading to exponentially fast convergence for consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Ethan N. Epperly , Gil Goldshlager , Robert J. Webber