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Given a line segment $I=[0,L]$, the so-called barrier, and a set of $n$ sensors with varying ranges positioned on the line containing $I$, the barrier coverage problem is to move the sensors so that they cover $I$, while minimising the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Serge Gaspers , Joachim Gudmundsson , Julián Mestre , Stefan Rümmele

We propose a new $(1+O(\varepsilon))$-approximation algorithm with $O(n+ 1/\varepsilon^{\frac{(d-1)}{2}})$ running time for computing the diameter of a set of $n$ points in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space for a fixed dimension $d$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Mahdi Imanparast , Seyed Naser Hashemi

The accuracy of compound Poisson approximation to the sum $S=w_1S_1+w_2S_2+...+w_NS_N$ is estimated. Here $S_i$ are sums of independent or weakly dependent random variables, and $w_i$ denote weights. The overall smoothing effect of $S$ on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Vydas Cekanavicius , Aiste Elijio

We present three new approximation algorithms with improved constant ratios for selecting $n$ points in $n$ disks such that the minimum pairwise distance among the points is maximized. (1) A very simple $O(n\log n)$-time algorithm with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Adrian Dumitrescu , Minghui Jiang

We propose an implementable, neural network-based structure preserving probabilistic numerical approximation for a generalized obstacle problem describing the value of a zero-sum differential game of optimal stopping with asymmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Ľubomír Baňas , Giorgio Ferrari , Tsiry Avisoa Randrianasolo

We provide a complete characterization for the computational complexity of finding approximate equilibria in two-action graphical games. We consider the two most well-studied approximation notions: $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibria…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Alexandros Hollender , Themistoklis Melissourgos

This paper considers the entropy of the sum of (possibly dependent and non-identically distributed) Bernoulli random variables. Upper bounds on the error that follows from an approximation of this entropy by the entropy of a Poisson random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Igal Sason

Let $Y=X_1+\cdots+X_N$ be a sum of a random number of exchangeable random variables, where the random variable $N$ is independent of the $X_j$, and the $X_j$ are from the generalized multinomial model introduced by Tallis (1962). This…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Fraser Daly

We consider the approximation of a convolution of possibly different probability measures by (compound) Poisson distributions and also by related signed measures of higher order. We present new total variation bounds having a better…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Bero Roos

In this paper, we study the problem of computing the diameter of a set of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space for a fixed dimension $d$, and propose a new $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm with $O(n+ 1/\varepsilon^{d-1})$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Mahdi Imanparast , Seyed Naser Hashemi , Ali Mohades

An oblivious subspace embedding is a random $m\times n$ matrix $\Pi$ such that, for any $d$-dimensional subspace, with high probability $\Pi$ preserves the norms of all vectors in that subspace within a $1\pm\epsilon$ factor. In this work,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Shabarish Chenakkod , Michał Dereziński , Xiaoyu Dong

New lower bounds on the total variation distance between the distribution of a sum of independent Bernoulli random variables and the Poisson random variable (with the same mean) are derived via the Chen-Stein method. The new bounds rely on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Igal Sason

We derive the precise asymptotic distributional behavior of Gaussian variational approximate estimators of the parameters in a single-predictor Poisson mixed model. These results are the deepest yet obtained concerning the statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Peter Hall , Tung Pham , M. P. Wand , S. S. J. Wang

In this article, we consider the Euclidean dispersion problems. Let $P=\{p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{n}\}$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For each point $p \in P$ and $S \subseteq P$, we define $cost_{\gamma}(p,S)$ as the sum of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Pawan K. Mishra , Gautam K. Das

This work consists in the asymptotic analysis of the solution of Poisson equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{P}$ $(P=2,3)$ with a thin layer. We use a method based on hierarchical variational equations to derive asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Khaled El-Ghaouti Boutarene

We study the well-known two-dimensional strip packing problem. Given is a set of rectangular axis-parallel items and a strip of width $W$ with infinite height. The objective is to find a packing of these items into the strip, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Klaus Jansen , Malin Rau

We provide completely effective error estimates for Stirling numbers of the first and second kind, denoted by $s(n,m)$ and $S(n,m)$, respectively. These bounds are useful for values of $m \geq n - O(\sqrt{n})$. An application of our Theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Richard Arratia , Stephen DeSalvo

This paper develops theoretical results regarding noisy 1-bit compressed sensing and sparse binomial regression. We show that a single convex program gives an accurate estimate of the signal, or coefficient vector, for both of these models.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Yaniv Plan , Roman Vershynin

We consider the $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate nearest neighbor search problem: given a set $X$ of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, build a data structure that, given any query point $y$, finds a point $x \in X$ whose distance to $y$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

Let $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ be independent random points drawn from an absolutely continuous probability measure with density $f$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Under mild conditions on $f$, we derive a Poisson limit theorem for the number of large…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-20 László Györfi , Norbert Henze , Harro Walk