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In single-objective optimization, it is well known that evolutionary algorithms also without further adjustments can tolerate a certain amount of noise in the evaluation of the objective function. In contrast, this question is not at all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Matthieu Dinot , Benjamin Doerr , Ulysse Hennebelle , Sebastian Will

In this paper it is shown that given a sufficient number of (noisy) random binary linear equations, the Learning from Parity with Noise (LPN) problem can be solved in essentially cube root time in the number of unknowns. The techniques used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Urs Wagner

The selection problem, where one wishes to locate the $k^{th}$ smallest element in an unsorted array of size $n$, is one of the basic problems studied in computer science. The main focus of this work is designing algorithms for solving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-30 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Nimrod Talmon

We study a natural variant of scheduling that we call \emph{partial scheduling}: In this variant an instance of a scheduling problem along with an integer $k$ is given and one seeks an optimal schedule where not all, but only $k$ jobs, have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Jesper Nederlof , Céline Swennenhuis

We consider the problem of learning stabilizer states with noise in the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) framework of Aaronson (2007) for learning quantum states. In the noiseless setting, an algorithm for this problem was recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Aravind Gollakota , Daniel Liang

When solving the Hamiltonian path problem it seems natural to be given additional precedence constraints for the order in which the vertices are visited. For example one could decide whether a Hamiltonian path exists for a fixed starting…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jesse Beisegel , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

We study the design of fixed-parameter algorithms for problems already known to be solvable in polynomial time. The main motivation is to get more efficient algorithms for problems with unattractive polynomial running times. Here, we focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios , Rolf Niedermeier

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

In this paper, we establish sample complexity bounds for learning high-dimensional simplices in $\mathbb{R}^K$ from noisy data. Specifically, we consider $n$ i.i.d. samples uniformly drawn from an unknown simplex in $\mathbb{R}^K$, each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Seyed Amir Hossein Saberi , Amir Najafi , Abolfazl Motahari , Babak H. khalaj

This work concerns learning probabilistic models for ranking data in a heterogeneous population. The specific problem we study is learning the parameters of a Mallows Mixture Model. Despite being widely studied, current heuristics for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Pranjal Awasthi , Avrim Blum , Or Sheffet , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study the query complexity of Weak Parity: the problem of computing the parity of an n-bit input string, where one only has to succeed on a 1/2+eps fraction of input strings, but must do so with high probability on those inputs where one…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Scott Aaronson , Andris Ambainis , Kaspars Balodis , Mohammad Bavarian

It is known that the dual of the general adversary bound can be used to build quantum query algorithms with optimal complexity. Despite this result, not many quantum algorithms have been designed this way. This paper shows another example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 Aleksandrs Belovs , Troy Lee

We study the problem of learning a binary classifier on the vertices of a graph. In particular, we consider classifiers given by monophonic halfspaces, partitions of the vertices that are convex in a certain abstract sense. Monophonic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Marco Bressan , Emmanuel Esposito , Maximilian Thiessen

We revisit the well-studied problem of learning a linear combination of $k$ ReLU activations given labeled examples drawn from the standard $d$-dimensional Gaussian measure. Chen et al. [CDG+23] recently gave the first algorithm for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Sitan Chen , Shyam Narayanan

A central problem in parameterized algorithms is to obtain algorithms with running time $f(k)\cdot n^{O(1)}$ such that $f$ is as slow growing function of the parameter $k$ as possible. In particular, a large number of basic parameterized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Daniel Lokshtanov , Daniel Marx , Saket Saurabh

Several well-studied online resource allocation problems can be formulated in terms of infinite, increasing sequences of positive values, in which each element is associated with a corresponding allocation value. Examples include problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Spyros Angelopoulos , Diogo Arsénio , Shahin Kamali

The family of $(k,\ell)$-sparse graphs, introduced by Lorea, plays a central role in combinatorial optimization and has a wide range of applications, particularly in rigidity theory. A key algorithmic problem is to decide whether a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bence Deák , Péter Madarasi

Consider the fundamental task of finding independent sets of (constant) size $k$ in a given $n$-node hypergraph. How is the time complexity affected by the sparsity of the input, i.e., the number of hyperedges $m$? Tur\'{a}n's theorem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timo Fritsch , Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redzic , Julian Stieß

We study the efficient learnability of high-dimensional Gaussian mixtures in the outlier-robust setting, where a small constant fraction of the data is adversarially corrupted. We resolve the polynomial learnability of this problem when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ilias Diakonikolas , Samuel B. Hopkins , Daniel Kane , Sushrut Karmalkar

In this paper, we find a sample complexity bound for learning a simplex from noisy samples. Assume a dataset of size $n$ is given which includes i.i.d. samples drawn from a uniform distribution over an unknown simplex in $\mathbb{R}^K$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-02 Amir Hossein Saberi , Amir Najafi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari , Babak H. Khalaj