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We study the computational complexity of scheduling jobs on a single speed-scalable processor with the objective of capturing the trade-off between the (weighted) flow time and the energy consumption. This trade-off has been extensively…

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The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward problem of subdiffusion equation involving a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. After using quasi-boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

Tensor factorization with hard and/or soft constraints has played an important role in signal processing and data analysis. However, existing algorithms for constrained tensor factorization have two drawbacks: (i) they require…

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One of the fundamental open problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms is the question of whether randomization is needed for efficient symmetry breaking. While there are fast, $\text{poly}\log n$-time randomized distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Philipp Bamberger , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

Over the past 30 years numerous algorithms have been designed for symmetry breaking problems in the LOCAL model, such as maximal matching, MIS, vertex coloring, and edge-coloring. For most problems the best randomized algorithm is at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Yi-Jun Chang , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Seth Pettie

Motivated by the dynamic assortment offerings and item pricings occurring in e-commerce, we study a general problem of allocating finite inventories to heterogeneous customers arriving sequentially. We analyze this problem under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi

Two widely-used computational paradigms for sublinear algorithms are using linear measurements to perform computations on a high dimensional input and using structured queries to access a massive input. Typically, algorithms in the former…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Amit Chakrabarti , Manuel Stoeckl

Submodular function minimization (SFM) is a fundamental discrete optimization problem which generalizes many well known problems, has applications in various fields, and can be solved in polynomial time. Owing to applications in computer…

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This paper is concerned with fault estimation in a class of nonlinear fractional order systems using a new super twisting algorithm based second order step by step sliding mode observer. Since the existing sliding mode observers are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Seyed Mohammad Moein Mousavi , Amin Ramezani , HamidReza Momeni

Federated Learning (FL) refers to the paradigm where multiple worker nodes (WNs) build a joint model by using local data. Despite extensive research, for a generic non-convex FL problem, it is not clear, how to choose the WNs' and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Prashant Khanduri , Pranay Sharma , Haibo Yang , Mingyi Hong , Jia Liu , Ketan Rajawat , Pramod K. Varshney

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a simple and popular method to solve stochastic optimization problems which arise in machine learning. For strongly convex problems, its convergence rate was known to be O(\log(T)/T), by running SGD for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Alexander Rakhlin , Ohad Shamir , Karthik Sridharan

We give the first optimal bounds for returning the $\ell_1$-heavy hitters in a data stream of insertions, together with their approximate frequencies, closing a long line of work on this problem. For a stream of $m$ items in $\{1, 2, \dots,…

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Strong approximation errors of both finite element semi-discretization and spatio-temporal full discretization are analyzed for the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation driven by additive noise in space dimension $d \leq 3$. The full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

The discrete logarithm problem in a finite group is the basis for many protocols in cryptography. The best general algorithms which solve this problem have time complexity of $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{N}\log N)$, and a space complexity of…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted many facets of natural language processing and information retrieval. Unlike previous encoder-based approaches, the enlarged context window of these generative models allows for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Andrew Parry , Sean MacAvaney , Debasis Ganguly

We consider a classical scheduling problem on $m$ identical machines. For an arbitrary constant $q>1$, the aim is to assign jobs to machines such that $\sum_{i=1}^m C_i^q$ is minimized, where $C_i$ is the total processing time of jobs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Lin Chen , Liangde Tao , José Verschae

We design a new, fast algorithm for agnostically learning univariate probability distributions whose densities are well approximated by piecewise polynomial functions. Let $f$ be the density function of an arbitrary univariate distribution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Jayadev Acharya , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

We study the general problem of computing frequency-based functions, i.e., the sum of any given function of data stream frequencies. Special cases include fundamental data stream problems such as computing the number of distinct elements…

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We present a framework that provides deterministic consistency algorithms for given memory models. Such an algorithm checks whether the executions of a shared-memory concurrent program are consistent under the axioms defined by a model. For…

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We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

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