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We extend our techniques developed in our earlier paper appeared in Computational Complexity, 2017 (preprint: arXiv:1508.00690) to obtain a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for computing the non-commutative rank together with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Gábor Ivanyos , Youming Qiao , K. V. Subrahmanyam

The genetic selection of keywords set, the text frequencies of which are considered as attributes in text classification analysis, has been analyzed. The genetic optimization was performed on a set of words, which is the fraction of the…

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This paper characterizes and discusses devolutionary genetic algorithms and evaluates their performances in solving the minimum labeling Steiner tree (MLST) problem. We define devolutionary algorithms as the process of reaching a feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Nassim Dehouche

Motivation: RNA design aims to find RNA sequences that fold into a given target secondary structure, a problem also known as RNA inverse folding. However, not all target structures are designable. Recent advances in RNA designability have…

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We present a simple deterministic gap-preserving reduction from SAT to the Minimum Distance of Code Problem over $\F_2$. We also show how to extend the reduction to work over any finite field. Previously a randomized reduction was known due…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Per Austrin , Subhash Khot

We show that under mild assumptions for a problem whose solutions admit a dynamic programming-like recurrence relation, we can still find a solution under additional packing constraints, which need to be satisfied approximately. The number…

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We study the classification problems over string data for hypotheses specified by formulas of monadic second-order logic MSO. The goal is to design learning algorithms that run in time polynomial in the size of the training set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Martin Grohe , Christof Löding , Martin Ritzert

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

In this work we seek clusters of genomic words in human DNA by studying their inter-word lag distributions. Due to the particularly spiked nature of these histograms, a clustering procedure is proposed that first decomposes each…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-13 Ana Helena Tavares , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Paula Brito , Vera Afreixo

This paper gives new results for synchronization strings, a powerful combinatorial object that allows to efficiently deal with insertions and deletions in various communication settings: $\bullet$ We give a deterministic, linear time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

Combinatorial samplers are algorithmic schemes devised for the approximate- and exact-size generation of large random combinatorial structures, such as context-free words, various tree-like data structures, maps, tilings, RNA molecules.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Maciej Bendkowski , Olivier Bodini , Sergey Dovgal

We study the computational complexity of approximating general constrained Markov decision processes. Our primary contribution is the design of a polynomial time $(0,\epsilon)$-additive bicriteria approximation algorithm for finding optimal…

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We construct algorithms that efficiently generate random factorisations of values $P(n)$ as products of two integers, where $P\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ is a given quadratic or cubic monic polynomial. In other words, the algorithms produce random…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of designing DNA sequences (codewords) for DNA storage systems and DNA computing that are unlikely to fold back onto themselves to form undesirable secondary structures. The paper addresses both the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Olgica Milenkovic , Navin Kashyap

We study sparse polynomials with bounded individual degree and their factors, obtaining the following structural and algorithmic results. 1. A deterministic polynomial-time algorithm to find all sparse divisors of a sparse polynomial of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aminadav Chuyoon , Amir Shpilka

We initiate a study of locally decodable codes with randomized encoding. Standard locally decodable codes are error correcting codes with a deterministic encoding function and a randomized decoding function, such that any desired message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Kuan Cheng , Xin Li , Yu Zheng

Conditional text generation often requires lexical constraints, i.e., which words should or shouldn't be included in the output text. While the dominant recipe for conditional text generation has been large-scale pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ximing Lu , Peter West , Rowan Zellers , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

This is the latest in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. In the previous papers, we have proved that the sat CNF problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Stepan G. Margaryan

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of $\mathsf{BPTIME}$: proving hierarchy theorems and showing the existence of complete problems. Our main contributions can be…

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