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The "short cycle removal" technique was recently introduced by Abboud, Bringmann, Khoury and Zamir (STOC '22) to prove fine-grained hardness of approximation. Its main technical result is that listing all triangles in an $n^{1/2}$-regular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann , Nick Fischer

The study of optimal decision trees has gained increasing attention in recent years; however, despite substantial progress, it still suffers from two major challenges: First, trees constructed by existing optimal decision tree (ODT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xi He

We investigate the complexity of several fundamental polynomial-time solvable problems on graphs and on matrices, when the given instance has low treewidth; in the case of matrices, we consider the treewidth of the graph formed by non-zero…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Marcin Wrochna

We present a new approximation algorithm for the treewidth problem which finds an upper bound on the treewidth and constructs a corresponding tree decomposition as well. Our algorithm is a faster variation of Reed's classical algorithm. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer

Suppose we are given an $n$-dimensional order-3 symmetric tensor $T \in (\mathbb{R}^n)^{\otimes 3}$ that is the sum of $r$ random rank-1 terms. The problem of recovering the rank-1 components is possible in principle when $r \lesssim n^2$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Alexander S. Wein

The 3-domatic number problem asks whether a given graph can be partitioned intothree dominating sets. We prove that this problem can be solved by a deterministic algorithm in time 2.695^n (up to polynomial factors). This result improves the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tobias Riege , Jörg Rothe , Holger Spakowski , Masaki Yamamoto

The Subset Sum problem is a classical NP-complete problem with a long-standing $O^*(2^{n/2})$ deterministic bound due to Horowitz and Sahni. We present results at two distinct levels of generality. First (instance-sensitive bound), we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jesus Salas

A noticeable fraction of Algorithms papers in the last few decades improve the running time of well-known algorithms for fundamental problems by logarithmic factors. For example, the $O(n^2)$ dynamic programming solution to the Longest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann

We are concerned with the fastest possible direct numerical solution algorithm for a thin-banded or tridiagonal linear system of dimension $N$ on a distributed computing network of $N$ nodes that is connected in a binary communication tree.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Martin Neuenhofen

Depth-3 circuit lower bounds and $k$-SAT algorithms are intimately related; the state-of-the-art $\Sigma^k_3$-circuit lower bound and the $k$-SAT algorithm are based on the same combinatorial theorem. In this paper we define a problem which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohit Gurumukhani , Ramamohan Paturi , Pavel Pudlák , Michael Saks , Navid Talebanfard

3SUM-Indexing is a preprocessing variant of the 3SUM problem that has recently received a lot of attention. The best known time-space tradeoff for the problem is $T S^3 = n^{6}$ (up to logarithmic factors), where $n$ is the number of input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Itai Dinur , Alexander Golovnev

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

We study deterministic algorithms for computing graph cuts, with focus on two fundamental problems: balanced sparse cut and $k$-vertex connectivity for small $k$ ($k=O(\polylog n)$). Both problems can be solved in near-linear time with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

The $3$SUM hypothesis, the APSP hypothesis and SETH are the three main hypotheses in fine-grained complexity. So far, within the area, the first two hypotheses have mainly been about integer inputs in the Word RAM model of computation. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Timothy M. Chan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

We revisit the classical problem of determining the largest copy of a simple polygon $P$ that can be placed into a simple polygon $Q$. Despite significant effort, known algorithms require high polynomial running times. (Barequet and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

We study the density estimation problem defined as follows: given $k$ distributions $p_1, \ldots, p_k$ over a discrete domain $[n]$, as well as a collection of samples chosen from a ``query'' distribution $q$ over $[n]$, output $p_i$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anders Aamand , Alexandr Andoni , Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , Sandeep Silwal , Haike Xu

We study the parameterized complexity of algorithmic problems whose input is an integer set $A$ in terms of the doubling constant $C := |A + A|/|A|$, a fundamental measure of additive structure. We present evidence that this new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tim Randolph , Karol Węgrzycki

We give an $n^{O(\log\log n)}$-time membership query algorithm for properly and agnostically learning decision trees under the uniform distribution over $\{\pm 1\}^n$. Even in the realizable setting, the previous fastest runtime was…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Mingda Qiao , Li-Yang Tan

An out-tree $T$ of a directed graph $D$ is a rooted tree subgraph with all arcs directed outwards from the root. An out-branching is a spanning out-tree. By $l(D)$ and $l_s(D)$ we denote the maximum number of leaves over all out-trees and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Paul Bonsma , Frederic Dorn

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and an input line $\gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, we present an algorithm that runs in optimal $\Theta(n\log n)$ time and $\Theta(n)$ space to solve a restricted version of the $1$-Steiner tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Prosenjit Bose , Anthony D'Angelo , Stephane Durocher