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An average-case variant of the $k$-SUM conjecture asserts that finding $k$ numbers that sum to 0 in a list of $r$ random numbers, each of the order $r^k$, cannot be done in much less than $r^{\lceil k/2 \rceil}$ time. On the other hand, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Itai Dinur , Nathan Keller , Ohad Klein

Using hashing techniques, this paper develops a family of space-efficient Las Vegas randomized algorithms for $k$-SUM problems. This family includes an algorithm that can solve 3-SUM in $O(n^2)$ time and $O(\sqrt{n})$ space. It also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Joshua Wang

We consider the classic 3SUM problem: given sets of integers $A, B, C $, determine whether there is a tuple $(a, b, c) \in A \times B \times C$ satisfying $a + b + c = 0$. The 3SUM Hypothesis, central in fine-grained complexity, states that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yael Kirkpatrick , John Kuszmaul , Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We show that if one can solve 3SUM on a set of size n in time n^{1+\e} then one can list t triangles in a graph with m edges in time O(m^{1+\e}t^{1/3-\e/3}). This is a reversal of Patrascu's reduction from 3SUM to listing triangles (STOC…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Zahra Jafargholi , Emanuele Viola

We study quantum algorithms for problems in computational geometry, such as POINT-ON-3-LINES problem. In this problem, we are given a set of lines and we are asked to find a point that lies on at least $3$ of these lines. POINT-ON-3-LINES…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Andris Ambainis , Nikita Larka

The computational complexity of solving random 3-Satisfiability (3-SAT) problems is investigated. 3-SAT is a representative example of hard computational tasks; it consists in knowing whether a set of alpha N randomly drawn logical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson

In the classical linear degeneracy testing problem, we are given $n$ real numbers and a $k$-variate linear polynomial $F$, for some constant $k$, and have to determine whether there exist $k$ numbers $a_1,\ldots,a_k$ from the set such that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jean Cardinal , Micha Sharir

We consider the randomized decision tree complexity of the recursive 3-majority function. We prove a lower bound of $(1/2-\delta) \cdot 2.57143^h$ for the two-sided-error randomized decision tree complexity of evaluating height $h$ formulae…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Frederic Magniez , Ashwin Nayak , Miklos Santha , Jonah Sherman , Gabor Tardos , David Xiao

In this paper, we study quantum query complexity of the following rather natural tripartite generalisations (in the spirit of the 3-sum problem) of the hidden shift and the set equality problems, which we call the 3-shift-sum and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Aleksandrs Belovs , Ansis Rosmanis

We prove 3SUM-hardness (no strongly subquadratic-time algorithm, assuming the 3SUM conjecture) of several problems related to finding Abelian square and additive square factors in a string. In particular, we conclude conditional optimality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jakub Radoszewski , Wojciech Rytter , Juliusz Straszyński , Tomasz Waleń , Wiktor Zuba

We present a new way to encode weighted sums into unweighted pairwise constraints, obtaining the following results. - Define the k-SUM problem to be: given n integers in [-n^2k, n^2k] are there k which sum to zero? (It is well known that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Amir Abboud , Kevin Lewi , Ryan Williams

Tree edit distance is a well-studied measure of dissimilarity between rooted trees with node labels. It can be computed in $O(n^3)$ time [Demaine, Mozes, Rossman, and Weimann, ICALP 2007], and fine-grained hardness results suggest that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

We construct near optimal linear decision trees for a variety of decision problems in combinatorics and discrete geometry. For example, for any constant $k$, we construct linear decision trees that solve the $k$-SUM problem on $n$ elements…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Daniel M. Kane , Shachar Lovett , Shay Moran

We study the network coding problem of sum-networks with 3 sources and n terminals (3s/nt sum-network), for an arbitrary positive integer n, and derive a sufficient and necessary condition for the solvability of a family of so-called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Wentu Song , Kai Cai , Chau Yuen , Rongquan Feng

We consider several well-studied problems in dynamic algorithms and prove that sufficient progress on any of them would imply a breakthrough on one of five major open problems in the theory of algorithms: 1. Is the 3SUM problem on $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Amir Abboud , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We consider the following problem: given three sets of real numbers, output a word-RAM data structure from which we can efficiently recover the sign of the sum of any triple of numbers, one in each set. This is similar to a previous work by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Sergio Cabello , Jean Cardinal , John Iacono , Stefan Langerman , Pat Morin , Aurélien Ooms

We provide new high-accuracy randomized algorithms for solving linear systems and regression problems that are well-conditioned except for $k$ large singular values. For solving such $d \times d$ positive definite system our algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Michał Dereziński , Aaron Sidford

Over the past 30 years numerous algorithms have been designed for symmetry breaking problems in the LOCAL model, such as maximal matching, MIS, vertex coloring, and edge-coloring. For most problems the best randomized algorithm is at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Yi-Jun Chang , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Seth Pettie

It has recently been shown that starting with a classical query algorithm (decision tree) and a guessing algorithm that tries to predict the query answers, we can design a quantum algorithm with query complexity $O(\sqrt{GT})$ where $T$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Salman Beigi , Leila Taghavi , Artin Tajdini

The popular 3SUM conjecture states that there is no strongly subquadratic time algorithm for checking if a given set of integers contains three distinct elements $x_1, x_2, x_3$ such that $x_1+x_2=x_3$. A closely related problem is to check…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tatiana Starikovskaya