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Every language in NL has a $k$-head two-way nondeterministic finite automaton (2nfa($k$)) recognizing it. It is known how to build a constant-space verifier algorithm from a 2nfa($k$) for the same language with constant-randomness, but with…
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Natural language understanding (NLU) of text is a fundamental challenge in AI, and it has received significant attention throughout the history of NLP research. This primary goal has been studied under different tasks, such as Question…
Given a stream of items each associated with a numerical value, its edit distance to monotonicity is the minimum number of items to remove so that the remaining items are non-decreasing with respect to the numerical value. The space…
For many shape analysis problems in computer vision and scientific imaging (e.g., computational anatomy, morphological cytometry), the ability to align two closed curves in the plane is crucial. In this paper, we concentrate on rigidly…
The quest for an algorithm that solves an $n\times n$ linear system in $O(n^2)$ time complexity, or $O(n^2 \text{poly}(1/\epsilon))$ when solving up to $\epsilon$ relative error, is a long-standing open problem in numerical linear algebra…
We consider an efficient two-party protocol for securely computing the similarity of strings w.r.t. an extended edit distance measure. Here, two parties possessing strings $x$ and $y$, respectively, want to jointly compute an approximate…