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By considering a discrete tape where each cell corresponds to an integer, thus to a possible sum, a pseudo-polynomial solution can be given to subset sum problem, which is an NP-complete problem and a cornerstone application for this study,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yigit Oktar

Suppose f is a real univariate polynomial of degree D with exactly 4 monomial terms. We present an algorithm, with complexity polynomial in log D on average (relative to the stable log-uniform measure), for counting the number of real roots…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Osbert Bastani , Christopher J. Hillar , Dimitar Popov , J. Maurice Rojas

We present a quantum algorithm for solving the hidden subgroup problem in the general linear group over a finite field where the hidden subgroup is promised to be a conjugate of the group of the invertible lower triangular matrices. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Gábor Ivanyos

In this paper, we focus on the solution of a hard single machine scheduling problem by new heuristic algorithms embedding techniques from machine learning field and scheduling theory. These heuristics transform an instance of the hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Axel Parmentier , Vincent T'Kindt

For high-dimensional sparse parameter estimation problems, Log-Sum Penalty (LSP) regularization effectively reduces the sampling sizes in practice. However, it still lacks theoretical analysis to support the experience from previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Zheng Pan , Guangdong Hou , Changshui Zhang

This paper examines the issues involved with concretely implementing a sum over conifolds in the formulation of Euclidean sums over histories for gravity. The first step in precisely formulating any sum over topological spaces is that one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

This work proposes a discretization of the acoustic wave equation with possibly oscillatory coefficients based on a superposition of discrete solutions to spatially localized subproblems computed with an implicit time discretization. Based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Dietmar Gallistl , Roland Maier

In this note, we propose simple summations for primes, which involve two finite nested sums and Bernoulli numbers. The summations can also be expressed in terms of Bernoulli polynomials.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Jean-Christophe Pain

In many real-world problems, we are dealing with collections of high-dimensional data, such as images, videos, text and web documents, DNA microarray data, and more. Often, high-dimensional data lie close to low-dimensional structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Ehsan Elhamifar , Rene Vidal

Approximating Subset Sum is a classic and fundamental problem in computer science and mathematical optimization. The state-of-the-art approximation scheme for Subset Sum computes a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

The Hidden Subset Sum Problem (HSSP) is a significant NP-complete problem in number theory and combinatorics, with applications in cryptography and AI privacy. For the $(n,k)$-complete HSSP, where a target multiset must be recovered from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Lixia Luo , Changheng Li , Qiongxiu Li

We consider the solution of the subset sum problem based on a parallel computer consisting of self-propelled biological agents moving in a nanostructured network that encodes the NP-complete task in its geometry. We develop an approximate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Michael Konopik , Till Korten , Heiner Linke , Eric Lutz

Lagarias and Odlyzko (J.~ACM~1985) proposed a polynomial time algorithm for solving ``\emph{almost all}'' instances of the Subset Sum problem with $n$ integers of size $\Omega(\Gamma_{\text{LO}})$, where $\log_2(\Gamma_{\text{LO}}) > n^2…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Antoine Joux , Karol Węgrzycki

Linear spectral unmixing under nonnegativity and sum-to-one constraints is a convex optimization problem for which many algorithms were proposed. In practice, especially for supervised unmixing (i.e., with a large dictionary), solutions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Nils Foix-Colonier , Sébastien Bourguignon

Numerous interesting properties in nonlinear systems analysis can be written as polynomial optimization problems with nonconvex sum-of-squares problems. To solve those problems efficiently, we propose a sequential approach of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Torbjørn Cunis , Benoît Legat

Integrals for the product of unitary-matrix elements over the U(n) group will be discussed. A group-theoretical formula is available to convert them into a multiple sum, but unfortunately the sums are often tedious to compute. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Aubert , C. S. Lam

We study a broad class of algorithmic problems with an "additive flavor" such as computing sumsets, 3SUM, Subset Sum and geometric pattern matching. Our starting point is that these problems can often be solved efficiently for integers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nick Fischer

The average properties of the well-known Subset Sum Problem can be studied by the means of its randomised version, where we are given a target value $z$, random variables $X_1, \ldots, X_n$, and an error parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, and we…

We establish that the min-sum message-passing algorithm and its asynchronous variants converge for a large class of unconstrained convex optimization problems.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-30 Ciamac C. Moallemi , Benjamin Van Roy

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field of $q$ elements, for a given subset $D\subset \mathbb{F}_q$, $m\in \mathbb{N}$, an integer $k\leq |D|$ and $\boldsymbol{b}\in \mathbb{F}_q^m$ we are interested in determining the existence of a subset…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Juan Francisco Gottig , Mariana Pérez , Melina Privitelli