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The Hidden Subset Sum Problem (HSSP) is a significant NP-complete problem in number theory and combinatorics, with applications in cryptography and AI privacy. For the $(n,k)$-complete HSSP, where a target multiset must be recovered from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Lixia Luo , Changheng Li , Qiongxiu Li

We investigate the question whether Subset Sum can be solved by a polynomial-time algorithm with access to a certificate of length poly(k) where k is the maximal number of bits in an input number. In other words, can it be solved using only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Michał Włodarczyk

We consider the well-studied partial sums problem in succint space where one is to maintain an array of n k-bit integers subject to updates such that partial sums queries can be efficiently answered. We present two succint versions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Philip Bille , Anders Roy Christiansen , Nicola Prezza , Frederik Rye Skjoldjensen

We consider the Modular Subset Sum problem: given a multiset $X$ of integers from $\mathbb{Z}_m$ and a target integer $t$, decide if there exists a subset of $X$ with a sum equal to $t \pmod{m}$. Recent independent works by Cardinal and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Krzysztof Potępa

We consider a large family of problems in which an ordering (or, more precisely, a chain of subsets) of a finite set must be chosen to minimize some weighted sum of costs. This family includes variations of Min Sum Set Cover (MSSC), several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Felix Happach , Lisa Hellerstein , Thomas Lidbetter

We study a broad class of algorithmic problems with an "additive flavor" such as computing sumsets, 3SUM, Subset Sum and geometric pattern matching. Our starting point is that these problems can often be solved efficiently for integers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nick Fischer

Using well-known mathematical problems for encryption is a widely used technique because they are computationally hard and provide security against potential attacks on the encryption method. The subset sum problem (SSP) can be defined as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yair Zadok , Nadav Voloch , Noa Voloch-Bloch , Maor Meir Hajaj

The problem of selecting small groups of itemsets that represent the data well has recently gained a lot of attention. We approach the problem by searching for the itemsets that compress the data efficiently. As a compression technique we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Nikolaj Tatti , Jilles Vreeken

We announce two breakthrough results concerning important questions in the Theory of Computational Complexity. In this expository paper, a systematic and comprehensive geometric characterization of the Subset Sum Problem is presented. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Srinivas Balaji Bollepalli

Subset sum is a very old and fundamental problem in theoretical computer science. In this problem, $n$ items with weights $w_1, w_2, w_3, \ldots, w_n$ are given as input and the goal is to find out if there is a subset of them whose weights…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hamed Saleh , Saeed Seddighin

Given positive integers $a_1,..., a_n, t$, the fixed weight subset sum problem is to find a subset of the $a_i$ that sum to $t$, where the subset has a prescribed number of elements. It is this problem that underlies the security of modern…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Andrew Shallue

In this paper, we study the subset-sum problem by using a quantum heuristic approach similar to the verification circuit of quantum Arthur-Merlin games. Under described certain assumptions, we show that the exact solution of the subset sum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Ammar Daskin

The segment tree is an extremely versatile data structure. In this paper, a new heap based implementation of segment trees is proposed. In such an implementation of segment tree, the structural information associated with the tree nodes can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Lei Wang , Xiaodong Wang

The subset sum problem, also referred as SSP, is a NP-Hard computational problem. SSP has its applications in broad domains like cryptography, number theory, operation research and complexity theory. The most famous algorithm for solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Avni Verma , Kamalakar Karlapalem

Given two strings $T$ and $S$ and a set of strings $P$, for each string $p \in P$, consider the unique substrings of $T$ that have $p$ as their prefix and $S$ as their suffix. Two problems then come to mind; the first problem being the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Laurentius Leonard , Ken Tanaka

We present space efficient Monte Carlo algorithms that solve Subset Sum and Knapsack instances with $n$ items using $O^*(2^{0.86n})$ time and polynomial space, where the $O^*(\cdot)$ notation suppresses factors polynomial in the input size.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Nikhil Bansal , Shashwat Garg , Jesper Nederlof , Nikhil Vyas

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

This article describes lossless compression algorithms for multisets of sequences, taking advantage of the multiset's unordered structure. Multisets are a generalisation of sets where members are allowed to occur multiple times. A multiset…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Christian Steinruecken

Sequence partition problems arise in many fields, such as sequential data analysis, information transmission, and parallel computing. In this paper, we study the following partition problem variant: given a sequence of $n$ items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Kai Jin , Danna Zhang , Canhui Zhang

Approximating Subset Sum is a classic and fundamental problem in computer science and mathematical optimization. The state-of-the-art approximation scheme for Subset Sum computes a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos