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The problem of efficient multiplication of large numbers has been a long-standing challenge in classical computation and has been extensively studied for centuries. It appears that the existing classical algorithms are close to their…

We give a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm for maximum independent set for (axis-aligned) rectangles in the plane. Using a polynomial-time algorithm, the best approximation factor previously known is $O(\log\log n)$.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Joseph S. B. Mitchell

A large number of NP-hard graph problems can be solved in $f(w)n^{O(1)}$ time and space when the input graph is provided together with a tree decomposition of width $w$, in many cases with a modest exponential dependence $f(w)$ on $w$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Stefan Kratsch

We review the literature on algorithms for estimating the index space in a multi-index model. The primary focus is on computationally efficient (polynomial-time) algorithms in Gaussian space, the assumptions under which consistency is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-17 Joan Bruna , Daniel Hsu

In this paper we propose a new efficient interpolation tool, extremely suitable for large scattered data sets. The partition of unity method is used and performed by blending Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) as local approximants and using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-18 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi , E. Perracchione

We consider the problem of Robust PCA in the fully and partially observed settings. Without corruptions, this is the well-known matrix completion problem. From a statistical standpoint this problem has been recently well-studied, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Xinyang Yi , Dohyung Park , Yudong Chen , Constantine Caramanis

This work presents a novel simulation-based approach for constructing confidence regions in parametric models, which is particularly suited for generative models and situations where limited data and conventional asymptotic approximations…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-22 Elena Bortolato , Laura Ventura

We present a new class of polynomial-time algorithms for submodular function minimization (SFM), as well as a unified framework to obtain strongly polynomial SFM algorithms. Our algorithms are based on simple iterative methods for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Daniel Dadush , László A. Végh , Giacomo Zambelli

We present an efficient framework for solving algebraically-constrained global non-convex polynomial optimization problems over subsets of the hypercube. We prove the existence of an equivalent nonlinear reformulation of such problems that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Mitchell Tong Harris , Pierre-David Letourneau , Dalton Jones , M. Harper Langston

Subset selection is a popular topic in recent years and a number of subset selection methods have been proposed. Among those methods, hypervolume subset selection is widely used. Greedy hypervolume subset selection algorithms can achieve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Weiyu Chen , Hisao Ishibuhci , Ke Shang

Minimizing a convex function of a measure with a sparsity-inducing penalty is a typical problem arising, e.g., in sparse spikes deconvolution or two-layer neural networks training. We show that this problem can be solved by discretizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lenaic Chizat

We study the problem of discrete geometric packing. Here, given weighted regions (say in the plane) and points (with capacities), one has to pick a maximum weight subset of the regions such that no point is covered more than its capacity.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Alina Ene , Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

The works presented in this habilitation concern the algorithmics of polynomials. This is a central topic in computer algebra, with numerous applications both within and outside the field - cryptography, error-correcting codes, etc. For…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bruno Grenet

We study first-order optimization algorithms under the constraint that the descent direction is quantized using a pre-specified budget of $R$-bits per dimension, where $R \in (0 ,\infty)$. We propose computationally efficient optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rajarshi Saha , Mert Pilanci , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Given a simple polygon $ \mathcal {P} $ of $ n $ vertices in the Plane. We study the problem of computing the visibility area from a given viewpoint $ q $ inside $ \mathcal {P} $ where only sub-linear variables are allowed for working…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

A nonsmooth set-gradient ascent method is developed for moving finite approximation sets toward the Pareto front in multiobjective optimization. The method optimizes layered set indicators: a base indicator is evaluated on successive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Michael T. M. Emmerich

We have presented some practical consequences on the molecular-dynamics simulations arising from the numerical algorithm published recently in paper Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16, 413 (2005). The algorithm is not a finite-difference method and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Brzostowski , M. R. Dudek , B. Grabiec , T. Nadzieja

This paper addresses the problem of efficiently computing higher-order variational integrators in simulation and trajectory optimization of mechanical systems as those often found in robotic applications. We develop $O(n)$ algorithms to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Taosha Fan , Jarvis Schultz , Todd Murphey

We present two new algebraic multilevel hierarchical matrix algorithms to perform fast matrix-vector product (MVP) for $N$-body problems in $d$ dimensions, namely efficient $\mathcal{H}^2_{*}$ (fully nested algorithm, i.e., $\mathcal{H}^2$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ritesh Khan , Sivaram Ambikasaran

Most parallel applications suffer from load imbalance, a crucial performance degradation factor. In particle simulations, this is mainly due to the migration of particles between processing elements, which eventually gather unevenly and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Anthony Boulmier , Nabil Abdennadher , Bastien Chopard