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The Priority Inheritance Protocol (PIP) is arguably the best-known protocol for resource sharing under real-time constraints. Its importance in modern applications is undisputed. Nevertheless, because jobs may be blocked under PIP for a…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Paolo Torroni , Zeynep Kiziltan , Eugenio Faldella

We give a simple, fast algorithm for hyperparameter optimization inspired by techniques from the analysis of Boolean functions. We focus on the high-dimensional regime where the canonical example is training a neural network with a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Elad Hazan , Adam Klivans , Yang Yuan

We provide an implicit characterization of polynomial time computation in terms of ordinary differential equations: we characterize the class $\operatorname{PTIME}$ of languages computable in polynomial time in terms of differential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Olivier Bournez , Daniel S. Graça , Amaury Pouly

In this paper we generalize N-fold integer programs and two-stage integer programs with N scenarios to N-fold 4-block decomposable integer programs. We show that for fixed blocks but variable N, these integer programs are polynomial-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Robert Weismantel

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

The Binary Polynomial Optimization (BPO) problem is defined as the problem of maximizing a given polynomial function over all binary points. The main contribution of this paper is to draw a novel connection between BPO and the field of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Florent Capelli , Alberto Del Pia , Silvia Di Gregorio

A read-once oblivious arithmetic branching program (ROABP) is an arithmetic branching program (ABP) where each variable occurs in at most one layer. We give the first polynomial time whitebox identity test for a polynomial computed by a sum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Rohit Gurjar , Arpita Korwar , Nitin Saxena , Thomas Thierauf

In this paper we present a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for testing if a symbolic matrix in non-commuting variables over $\mathbb{Q}$ is invertible or not. The analogous question for commuting variables is the celebrated…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Ankit Garg , Leonid Gurvits , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson

Two matrices are said to be principal minor equivalent if they have equal corresponding principal minors of all orders. We give a characterization of principal minor equivalence and a deterministic polynomial time algorithm to check if two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Abhranil Chatterjee , Sumanta Ghosh , Rohit Gurjar , Roshan Raj

Recent work has shown that not only decision trees (DTs) may not be interpretable but also proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for computing one PI-explanation of a DT. This paper shows that for a wide range of classifiers, globally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xuanxiang Huang , Yacine Izza , Alexey Ignatiev , Joao Marques-Silva

We show that one can approximate the least fixed point solution for a multivariate system of monotone probabilistic polynomial equations in time polynomial in both the encoding size of the system of equations and in log(1/\epsilon), where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Kousha Etessami , Alistair Stewart , Mihalis Yannakakis

This paper solves a long standing open problem of whether NP-complete problems could be solved in polynomial time on a deterministic Turing machine by showing that the indistinguishable binomial decision tree can be formed in a 3-SAT…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Keum-Bae Cho

We initiate the study of the algorithmic problem of certifying lower bounds on the discrepancy of random matrices: given an input matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$, output a value that is a lower bound on $\mathsf{disc}(A) = \min_{x…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Prayaag Venkat

We propose a general methodology for testing whether a given polynomial with integer coefficients is identically zero. The methodology evaluates the polynomial at efficiently computable approximations of suitable irrational points. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zhi-Zhong Chen , Ming-Yang Kao

In the recent breakthrough paper by Barbulescu, Gaudry, Joux and Thom{\'e}, a quasi-polynomial time algorithm (QPA) is proposed for the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields of small characteristic. The time complexity analysis of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Qi Cheng , Daqing Wan , Jincheng Zhuang

The taxing computational effort that is involved in solving some high-dimensional statistical problems, in particular problems involving non-convex optimization, has popularized the development and analysis of algorithms that run…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Guy Holtzman , Adam Soffer , Dan Vilenchik

In recent years much effort has been concentrated towards achieving polynomial time lower bounds on algorithms for solving various well-known problems. A useful technique for showing such lower bounds is to prove them conditionally based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Isaac Goldstein , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Moshe Lewenstein , Ely Porat

Using ideas from automata theory we design a new efficient (deterministic) identity test for the \emph{noncommutative} polynomial identity testing problem (first introduced and studied in \cite{RS05,BW05}). We also apply this idea to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-01-04 V. Arvind , Partha Mukhopadhyay , Srikanth Srinivasan

In 2010, A. Shpilka and I. Volkovich established a prominent result on the equivalence of polynomial factorization and identity testing. It follows from their result that a multilinear polynomial over the finite field of order 2 can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Pavel Emelyanov , Denis Ponomaryov

Sample complexity of bias estimation is a lower bound on the runtime of any bias detection method. Many regulatory frameworks require the bias to be tested for all subgroups, whose number grows exponentially with the number of protected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 German Martinez Matilla , Jakub Marecek