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Network reconstruction consists in retrieving the hidden interaction structure of a system from observations. Many reconstruction algorithms have been proposed, although less research has been devoted to describe their theoretical…

We consider the problem of computing the capacity of a coded, multicast network over a small alphabet. We introduce a novel approach to this problem based on mixed integer programming. As an application of our approach, we recover, extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

A function computation problem in directed acyclic networks has been considered in the literature, where a sink node wants to compute a target function with the inputs generated at multiple source nodes. The network links are error-free but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Cupjin Huang , Zihan Tan , Shenghao Yang , Xuan Guang

In this work, we present an abstract framework for some algebraic error-correcting codes with the aim of capturing codes that are list-decodable to capacity, along with their decoding algorithm. In the polynomial ideal framework, a code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siddharth Bhandari , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Madhu Sudan

We extend classical methods of computational complexity to the realm of distributed computing, where they sometimes prove more effective than in their original context. Our focus is on decision problems in the LOCAL model, a setting in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Fabian Reiter

Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in quantum information theory and, more in general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Younes Naceur , Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Antonio Acín

We give a centralized deterministic algorithm for constructing linear network error-correcting codes that attain the Singleton bound of network error-correcting codes. The proposed algorithm is based on the algorithm by Jaggi et al. We give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-04 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

We consider the problem of error control in a coded, multicast network, focusing on the scenario where the errors can occur only on a proper subset of the network edges. We model this problem via an adversarial noise, presenting a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Allison Beemer , Altan Berdan Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

The study of the fundamental limits of information systems is a central theme in information theory. Both the traditional analytical approach and the recently proposed computational approach have significant limitations, where the former is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wenjing Chen , Chao Tian

We introduce and study a class of optimization problems we coin replenishment problems with fixed turnover times: a very natural model that has received little attention in the literature. Nodes with capacity for storing a certain commodity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Thomas Bosman , Martijn van Ee , Yang Jiao , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , R. Ravi , Leen Stougie

This paper studies the theory of the additive wireless network model, in which the received signal is abstracted as an addition of the transmitted signals. Our central observation is that the crucial challenge for computing in this model is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Keren Censor-Hillel , Erez Kantor , Nancy Lynch , Merav Parter

The constrained linear representability problem (CLRP) for polymatroids determines whether there exists a polymatroid that is linear over a specified field while satisfying a collection of constraints on the rank function. Using a computer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Jayant Apte , John MacLaren Walsh

Segment Routing is a recent network technology that helps optimizing network throughput by providing finer control over the routing paths. Instead of routing directly from a source to a target, packets are routed via intermediate waypoints.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Cristina Bazgan , Morgan Chopin , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

Capacity analysis has been recently introduced as a way to analyze how linear models distribute their modelling capacity across the input space. In this paper, we extend the notion of capacity allocation to the case of neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Jonathan Donier

We propose a joint model that links the strategic level location and capacity decisions with the operational level routing and hub assignment decisions to solve hub network design problem with congestion and heterogeneous economics of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Xiaotong Liu

Volumetric brain reconstructions provide an unprecedented opportunity to gain insights into the complex connectivity patterns of neurons in an increasing number of organisms. Here, we model and quantify the complexity of the resulting…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-13 Anastasiya Salova , István A. Kovács

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Of central importance will be various robustness and minimization problems such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adrian Wurm

We consider the following node-capacitated network design problem. The input is an undirected graph, set of demands, uniform node capacity and arbitrary node costs. The goal is to find a minimum node-cost subgraph that supports all demands…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Viswanath Nagarajan , Kirk Pruhs , Cliff Stein

Seeking tighter relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems, semidefinite programming is a generalization of linear programming that offers better bounds and is still polynomially solvable. Yet, in practice, a semidefinite program is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Daniel Porumbel

This paper investigates the capacity of a wireless two way relay channel in which two end nodes exchange information via a relay node. The capacity is defined in the information-theoretic sense as the maximum information exchange rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-22 Zhang Shengli , Soung Chang Liew