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Given in the plane a set of points and a set of halfplanes, we consider the problem of computing a smallest subset of halfplanes whose union covers all points. In this paper, we present an $O(n^{4/3}\log^{5/3}n\log^{O(1)}\log n)$-time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Haitao Wang , Jie Xue

Let $V$ be any vector space of multivariate degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomials with co-dimension at most $k$, and $S$ be the set of points where all polynomials in $V$ {\em nearly} vanish. We establish a qualitatively optimal upper bound on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

We give new rounding schemes for SDP relaxations for the problems of maximizing cubic polynomials over the unit sphere and the $n$-dimensional hypercube. In both cases, the resulting algorithms yield a $O(\sqrt{n/k})$ multiplicative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari , Lucas Pesenti , Luca Trevisan

We study the problem of efficiently certifying upper bounds on the independence number of $\ell$-uniform hypergraphs. This is a notoriously hard problem, with efficient algorithms failing to approximate the independence number within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pravesh Kothari , Anand Louis , Rameesh Paul , Prasad Raghavendra

Randomized parallel algorithms for many fundamental problems achieve optimal linear work in expectation, but upgrading this guarantee to hold with high probability (whp) remains a recurring theoretical challenge. In this paper, we address…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

The self-random number generation (SRNG) problem is considered for general setting. In the literature, the optimum SRNG rate with respect to the variational distance has been discussed. In this paper, we first try to characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ryo Nomura

Given a set of pairwise disjoint polygonal obstacles in the plane, finding an obstacle-avoiding Euclidean shortest path between two points is a classical problem in computational geometry and has been studied extensively. Previously,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Haitao Wang

Quantum technologies provide many applications for information processing tasks that are impossible to realize within classical physics. These capabilities include such fundamental resources as generating secure, i.e. private and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Amelie Piveteau , Alban Seguinard , Piotr Mironowicz , Mohamed Bourennane

We present an algorithm that, with high probability, generates a random spanning tree from an edge-weighted undirected graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{4/3}m^{1/2}+n^{2})$ time (The $\tilde{O}(\cdot)$ notation hides $\operatorname{polylog}(n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-22 David Durfee , Rasmus Kyng , John Peebles , Anup B. Rao , Sushant Sachdeva

Given a set $ P $ of $n$ points and a set $ H $ of $n$ half-planes in the plane, we consider the problem of computing a smallest subset of points such that each half-plane contains at least one point of the subset. The previously best…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gang Liu , Haitao Wang

In this paper, we study the restricted isometry property of partial random circulant matrices. For a bounded subgaussian generator with independent entries, we prove that the partial random circulant matrices satisfy $s$-order RIP with high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Meng Huang , Yuxuan Pang , Zhiqiang Xu

We study the arithmetic complexity of hitting set generators, which are pseudorandom objects used for derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem. We give new explicit constructions of hitting set generators whose outputs are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Robert Andrews

An operating system kernel uses cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator for creating address space localization randomization offsets to protect memory addresses to processes from exploration, storing users' password securely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kunal Abhishek , George Dharma Prakash Raj E

The paper study counter-dependent pseudorandom generators; the latter are generators such that their state transition function (and output function) is being modified dynamically while working: For such a generator the recurrence sequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Vladimir Anashin

In previous work (Kuo, Nuyens, Wilkes, 2023), we showed that a lattice rule with a pre-determined generating vector but random number of points can achieve the near optimal convergence of $O(n^{-\alpha-1/2+\epsilon})$, $\epsilon > 0$, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Dirk Nuyens , Laurence Wilkes

Emergence of stochastic simulations as an extensively used computational tool for scientific purposes intensified the need for more accurate ways of generating sufficiently long sequences of uncorrelated random numbers. Even though several…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Ayse Ferhan Yesil , M. Cemal Yalabik

We study the computational power of polynomial threshold functions, that is, threshold functions of real polynomials over the boolean cube. We provide two new results bounding the computational power of this model. Our first result shows…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-29 Ido Ben-Eliezer , Shachar Lovett , Ariel Yadin

Approximate computing is a promising approach to reduce the power, delay, and area in hardware design for many error-resilient applications such as machine learning (ML) and digital signal processing (DSP) systems, in which multipliers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhen Li , Hao Zhou , Lingli Wang

We give the first almost optimal polynomial-time proper learning algorithm of Boolean sparse multivariate polynomial under the uniform distribution. For $s$-sparse polynomial over $n$ variables and $\epsilon=1/s^\beta$, $\beta>1$, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Nader H. Bshouty

We prove hardness-of-learning results under a well-studied assumption on the existence of local pseudorandom generators. As we show, this assumption allows us to surpass the current state of the art, and prove hardness of various basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Amit Daniely , Gal Vardi