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We view the folding of RNA-sequences as a map that assigns a pattern of base pairings to each sequence, known as secondary structure. These preimages can be constructed as random graphs (i.e. the neutral networks associated to the structure…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Christian V. Forst , Christian Reidys , Jacqueline Weber

Linear-scaling electronic-structure techniques, also called O(N) techniques, rely heavily on the multiplication of sparse matrices, where the sparsity arises from spatial cut-offs. In order to treat very large systems, the calculations must…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Bowler , T. Miyazaki , M. J. Gillan

We show variants of spectral sparsification routines can preserve the total spanning tree counts of graphs, which by Kirchhoff's matrix-tree theorem, is equivalent to determinant of a graph Laplacian minor, or equivalently, of any SDDM…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 David Durfee , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup B. Rao

We present a new dynamic matching sparsification scheme. From this scheme we derive a framework for dynamically rounding fractional matchings against \emph{adaptive adversaries}. Plugging in known dynamic fractional matching algorithms into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 David Wajc

We describe an algorithm for comparing two RNA secondary structures coded in the form of trees that introduces two new operations, called node fusion and edge fusion, besides the tree edit operations of deletion, insertion, and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Julien Allali , Marie-France Sagot

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

The ensemble of RNA secondary structures of uniform sequences is studied analytically. We calculate the partition function for very long sequences and discuss how the cross-over length, beyond which asymptotic scaling laws apply, depends on…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsunglin Liu , Ralf Bundschuh

Graph sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Sparsification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while preserving specific properties of the graph, like cuts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

Protein structure prediction often hinges on multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), which underperform on low-homology and orphan proteins. We introduce PLAME, a lightweight MSA design framework that leverages evolutionary embeddings from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hanqun Cao , Xinyi Zhou , Zijun Gao , Chenyu Wang , Xin Gao , Zhi Zhang , Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez , Chunbin Gu , Ge Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper introduces the localized sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximations of indefinite systems on periodic structures. The work is built on top of the recently proposed sparsifying preconditioner with two major…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Fei Liu , Lexing Ying

Integrative biomolecular modeling of RNA relies on structural refined collections and accurate experimental data that reflect binding and folding behavior. However, the prediction of such collections remains challenging due to the rugged…

Sparse matrix ordering is a vital optimization technique often employed for solving large-scale sparse matrices. Its goal is to minimize the matrix bandwidth by reorganizing its rows and columns, thus enhancing efficiency. Conventional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tao Tang , Youfu Jiang , Yingbo Cui , Jianbin Fang , Peng Zhang , Lin Peng , Chun Huang

Dual graphs have been applied to model RNA secondary structures. The purpose of the paper is two-fold: we present new graph-theoretic properties of dual graphs to validate the further analysis and classification of RNAs using these…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-19 Louis Petingi , Tamar Schlick

Matrix factorization (MF) is a widely used collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for recommendation systems (RSs), due to its high prediction accuracy, great flexibility and high efficiency in big data processing. However, with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yining Wu , Shengyu Duan , Gaole Sai , Chenhong Cao , Guobing Zou

The secondary structure that maximizes the number of non-crossing matchings between complimentary bases of an RNA sequence of length n can be computed in O(n^3) time using Nussinov's dynamic programming algorithm. The Four-Russians method…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-02 Balaji Venkatachalam , Dan Gusfield , Yelena Frid

Efficient continual learning in humans is enabled by a rich set of neurophysiological mechanisms and interactions between multiple memory systems. The brain efficiently encodes information in non-overlapping sparse codes, which facilitates…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

The growing significance of RNA engineering in diverse biological applications has spurred interest in developing AI methods for structure-based RNA design. While diffusion models have excelled in protein design, adapting them for RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Divya Nori , Wengong Jin

The secondary structure of ribonucleic acid (RNA) is more stable and accessible in the cell than its tertiary structure, making it essential for functional prediction. Although deep learning has shown promising results in this field,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-21 Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Hanqun Cao , Xingran Chen , Ge Wang , Lirong Wu , Jun Xia , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li

We address the problem of efficient sparse fixed-rank (S-FR) matrix decomposition, i.e., splitting a corrupted matrix $M$ into an uncorrupted matrix $L$ of rank $r$ and a sparse matrix of outliers $S$. Fixed-rank constraints are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-26 German Ros , Julio Guerrero

This is the first of two papers to describe a matrix sparsification algorithm that takes a general real or complex matrix as input and produces a sparse output matrix of the same size. The non-zero entries in the output are chosen to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Chetan Jhurani