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In this work, we develop the low-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) complexity landscape for a family of fundamental graph problems on trees. We present a general method that solves most locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Sebastian Brandt , Rustam Latypov , Jara Uitto

A single-commodity congestion approximator for a graph is a compact data structure that approximately predicts the edge congestion required to route any set of single-commodity flow demands in a network. A hierarchical congestion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

Locally Checkable Labeling (LCL) problems include essentially all the classic problems of $\mathsf{LOCAL}$ distributed algorithms. In a recent enlightening revelation, Chang and Pettie [arXiv 1704.06297] showed that any LCL (on bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Manuela Fischer , Mohsen Ghaffari

We present an analysis of the Locally Competitive Algorithm (LCA), a Hopfield-style neural network that efficiently solves sparse approximation problems (e.g., approximating a vector from a dictionary using just a few non-zero…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Aurèle Balavoine , Justin Romberg , Christopher J. Rozell

We explore the use of local algorithms in the design of streaming algorithms for the Maximum Directed Cut problem. Specifically, building on the local algorithm of Buchbinder et al. (FOCS'12) and Censor-Hillel et al. (ALGOSENSORS'17), we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Raghuvansh R. Saxena , Noah G. Singer , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

We study the design of local algorithms for massive graphs. A local algorithm is one that finds a solution containing or near a given vertex without looking at the whole graph. We present a local clustering algorithm. Our algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

Deep neural networks are a promising solution for applications that solve problems based on learning data sets. DNN accelerators solve the processing bottleneck as a domain-specific processor. Like other hardware solutions, there must be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Midia Reshadi , David Gregg

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider

We study the local complexity landscape of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems on constant-degree graphs with a focus on complexities below $\log^* n$. Our contribution is threefold: Our main contribution is that we complete the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Christoph Grunau , Vaclav Rozhon , Sebastian Brandt

We extend classical methods of computational complexity to the realm of distributed computing, where they sometimes prove more effective than in their original context. Our focus is on decision problems in the LOCAL model, a setting in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Fabian Reiter

This paper presents algorithms for local inversion of maps and shows how several important computational problems such as cryptanalysis of symmetric encryption algorithms, RSA algorithm and solving the elliptic curve discrete log problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Virendra Sule

The locally competitive algorithm (LCA) can solve sparse coding problems across a wide range of use cases. Recently, convolution-based LCA approaches have been shown to be highly effective for enhancing robustness for image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Geoffrey Kasenbacher , Felix Ehret , Gerrit Ecke , Sebastian Otte

Local Search problem, which finds a local minimum of a black-box function on a given graph, is of both practical and theoretical importance to combinatorial optimization, complexity theory and many other areas in theoretical computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengyu Zhang

We investigate a zone based approach for the reachability problem in timed automata. The challenge is to alleviate the size explosion of the search space when considering networks of timed automata working in parallel. In the timed setting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-05 R. Govind , Frédéric Herbreteau , B. Srivathsan , Igor Walukiewicz

We investigate the space complexity of solving linear systems of equations. While all known deterministic or randomized algorithms solving a square system of $n$ linear equations in $n$ variables require $\Omega(\log^2 n)$ space, Ta-Shma…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-05 François Le Gall

This paper considers the problem of canonical-correlation analysis (CCA) (Hotelling, 1936) and, more broadly, the generalized eigenvector problem for a pair of symmetric matrices. These are two fundamental problems in data analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Rong Ge , Chi Jin , Sham M. Kakade , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in various domains. While efficient alternatives to Softmax Attention have been widely studied, the search for more expressive mechanisms grounded in theoretical insight-even at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yifei Zuo , Yutong Yin , Zhichen Zeng , Ang Li , Banghua Zhu , Zhaoran Wang

We consider the distributed message-passing {LOCAL} model. In this model a communication network is represented by a graph where vertices host processors, and communication is performed over the edges. Computation proceeds in synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Leonid Barenboim

Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is a widely used statistical tool with both well established theory and favorable performance for a wide range of machine learning problems. However, computing CCA for huge datasets can be very slow…

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