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A solution for Smale's 17th problem, for the case of systems with bounded degree was recently given. This solution, an algorithm computing approximate zeros of complex polynomial systems in average polynomial time, assumed infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Irenee Briquel , Felipe Cucker , Javier Pena , Vera Roshchina

We give polynomial-time approximation schemes for monotone maximization problems expressible in terms of distances (up to a fixed upper bound) and efficiently solvable in graphs of bounded treewidth. These schemes apply in all fractionally…

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The search for multivariate quadrature rules of minimal size with a specified polynomial accuracy has been the topic of many years of research. Finding such a rule allows accurate integration of moments, which play a central role in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 John D. Jakeman , Akil Narayan

We provide the first fully polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme for the following two counting problems: 1. Given a Context Free Grammar $G$ over alphabet $\Sigma$, count the number of words of length exactly $n$ generated by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Kuldeep S. Meel , Alexis de Colnet

Answering a question of Haugland, we show that the pooling problem with one pool and a bounded number of inputs can be solved in polynomial time by solving a polynomial number of linear programs of polynomial size. We also give an overview…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Natashia Boland , Thomas Kalinowski , Fabian Rigterink

We propose logical characterizations of problems solvable in deterministic polylogarithmic time (PolylogTime) and polylogarithmic space (PolylogSpace). We introduce a novel two-sorted logic that separates the elements of the input domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Flavio Ferrarotti , Senén González , José María Turull Torres , Jan Van den Bussche , Jonni Virtema

Multi-time-scale stochastic approximation is an iterative algorithm for finding the fixed point of a set of $N$ coupled operators given their noisy samples. It has been observed that due to the coupling between the decision variables and…

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We present the asymptotically fastest known algorithms for some basic problems on univariate polynomial matrices: rank, nullspace, determinant, generic inverse, reduced form. We show that they essentially can be reduced to two computer…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Claude-Pierre Jeannerod , Gilles Villard

A subalgebraic approximation algorithm is proposed to estimate from a set of time series the parameters of the observer representation of a discrete-time polynomial system without inputs which can generate an approximation of the observed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Jana Němcová , Mihály Petreczky , Jan H. van Schuppen

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

This paper is concerned with linear parameter-dependent systems and considers the notion uniform ensemble reachability. The focus of this work is on constructive methods to compute suitable parameter-independent open-loop inputs for such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Michael Schönlein

A prominent problem in scheduling theory is the weighted flow time problem on one machine. We are given a machine and a set of jobs, each of them characterized by a processing time, a release time, and a weight. The goal is to find a…

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Finding a low-weight multiple (LWPM) of a given polynomial is very useful in the cryptanalysis of stream ciphers and arithmetic in finite fields. There is no known deterministic polynomial time complexity algorithm for solving this problem,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ferucio Laurenţiu Ţiplea , Simona-Maria Lăzărescu

Incorporating probabilistic terms in mathematical models is crucial for capturing and quantifying uncertainties in real-world systems, especially when the solution is not unique or exhibits sudden qualitative changes as parameters vary.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Isabella Carla Gonnella , Moaad Khamlich , Federico Pichi , Gianluigi Rozza

We establish efficient approximate counting algorithms for several natural problems in local lemma regimes. In particular, we consider the probability of intersection of events and the dimension of intersection of subspaces. Our approach is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ryan L. Mann , Gabriel Waite

We study here several variants of the covariates fine balance problem where we generalize some of these problems and introduce a number of others. We present here a comprehensive complexity study of the covariates problems providing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Dorit S. Hochbaum , Asaf Levin , Xu Rao

We generalize the monotone local search approach of Fomin, Gaspers, Lokshtanov and Saurabh [J. ACM 2019], by establishing a connection between parameterized approximation and exponential-time approximation algorithms for monotone subset…

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This paper presents a novel framework for high-dimensional nonlinear quantum computation that exploits tensor products of amplified vector and matrix encodings to efficiently evaluate multivariate polynomials. The approach enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

Branching processes are a class of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) with ubiquitous applications. A general difficulty in statistical inference under partially observed CTMC models arises in computing transition probabilities when the…

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