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We construct a fully discrete numerical scheme that is linear, decoupled, and unconditionally energy stable, and analyze its optimal error estimates for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. For time discretization, we employ the two…

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In this work, we propose a sparse transformer architecture that incorporates prior information about the underlying data distribution directly into the transformer structure of the neural network. The design of the model is motivated by a…

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We construct $\varepsilon$-approximate unitary $k$-designs on $n$ qubits in circuit depth $O(\log k \log \log n k / \varepsilon)$. The depth is exponentially improved over all known results in all three parameters $n$, $k$, $\varepsilon$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Laura Cui , Thomas Schuster , Fernando Brandao , Hsin-Yuan Huang

We consider the recovery of a nonnegative vector x from measurements y = Ax, where A is an m-by-n matrix whos entries are in {0, 1}. We establish that when A corresponds to the adjacency matrix of a bipartite graph with sufficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-26 Venkat Chandar , Devavrat Shah , Gregory W. Wornell

Given an $n$-length input signal $\mbf{x}$, it is well known that its Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), $\mbf{X}$, can be computed in $O(n \log n)$ complexity using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). If the spectrum $\mbf{X}$ is exactly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Sameer Pawar , Kannan Ramchandran

We study the sparse phase retrieval problem, which seeks to recover a sparse signal from a limited set of magnitude-only measurements. In contrast to prevalent sparse phase retrieval algorithms that primarily use first-order methods, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jian-Feng Cai , Yu Long , Ruixue Wen , Jiaxi Ying

We describe a randomized algorithm for producing a near-optimal hierarchical off-diagonal low-rank (HODLR) approximation to an $n\times n$ matrix $\mathbf{A}$, accessible only though matrix-vector products with $\mathbf{A}$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Tyler Chen , Feyza Duman Keles , Diana Halikias , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , David Persson

Learning a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is a fundamental problem in machine learning, learning theory, and statistics. One notion of learning a GMM is proper learning: here, the goal is to find a mixture of $k$ Gaussians $\mathcal{M}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

In the classical Subset Sum problem we are given a set $X$ and a target $t$, and the task is to decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ which sums to $t$. A recent line of research has resulted in $\tilde{O}(t)$-time algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

Approximating a function $f(x)$ on $[-1,1]$ based on $N+1$ samples is a classical problem in numerical analysis. If the samples come with heteroskedastic noise depending on $x$ of variance $\sigma(x)^2$, an $O(N\log N)$ algorithm for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Yifu Zhang

We present an algorithm that on input of an $n$-vertex $m$-edge weighted graph $G$ and a value $k$, produces an {\em incremental sparsifier} $\hat{G}$ with $n-1 + m/k$ edges, such that the condition number of $G$ with $\hat{G}$ is bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ioannis Koutis , Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng

We present a new approach to solve the sparse approximation or best subset selection problem, namely find a $k$-sparse vector ${\bf x}\in\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the $\ell_2$ residual $\lVert A{\bf x}-{\bf y} \rVert_2$. We consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tal Amir , Ronen Basri , Boaz Nadler

Submodular maximization constitutes a prominent research topic in combinatorial optimization and theoretical computer science, with extensive applications across diverse domains. While substantial advancements have been achieved in…

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The metric $k$-median problem is a textbook clustering problem. As input, we are given a metric space $V$ of size $n$ and an integer $k$, and our task is to find a subset $S \subseteq V$ of at most $k$ `centers' that minimizes the total…

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We study the problem of estimating $k$-ary distributions under $\varepsilon$-local differential privacy. $n$ samples are distributed across users who send privatized versions of their sample to a central server. All previously known sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun , Huanyu Zhang

In the mid-second decade of new millennium, the development of IT has reached unprecedented new heights. As one derivative of Moore's law, the operating system evolves from the initial 16 bits, 32 bits, to the ultimate 64 bits. Most modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Yi Lu

We propose a new algorithm for recovery of sparse signals from their compressively sensed samples. The proposed algorithm benefits from the strategy of gradual movement to estimate the positions of non-zero samples of sparse signal. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Seyed Hossein Hosseini , Mahrokh G. Shayesteh

Perturbing a deterministic $n$-dimensional matrix with small Gaussian noise is a cornerstone of smoothed analysis of algorithms [Spielman and Teng, JACM 2004], as it reduces the condition number of the input to $O(n)$, and with it the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shabarish Chenakkod , Michał Dereziński , Xiaoyu Dong , Mark Rudelson

A quantum computer directly manipulates information stored in the state of quantum mechanical systems. The available operations have many attractive features but also underly severe restrictions, which complicate the design of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sos S. Agaian , Andreas Klappenecker

Noisy $k$-XOR is a basic average-case inference problem in which one observes random noisy $k$-ary parity constraints and seeks to recover, or more weakly, detect, a hidden Boolean assignment. A central question is to characterize the…

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