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Derandomization is the process of taking a randomized algorithm and turning it into a deterministic algorithm, which has attracted great attention in classical computing. In quantum computing, it is challenging and intriguing to derandomize…

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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

String attractors [STOC 2018] are combinatorial objects recently introduced to unify all known dictionary compression techniques in a single theory. A set $\Gamma\subseteq [1..n]$ is a $k$-attractor for a string $S\in[1..\sigma]^n$ if and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Dominik Kempa , Alberto Policriti , Nicola Prezza , Eva Rotenberg

While extensive research on query evaluation has achieved consistent improvements in the time complexity of algorithms, the space complexity of query evaluation has been largely ignored. This is a particular challenge in settings with…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Kyle Deeds , Timo Camillo Merkl , Reinhard Pichler , Dan Suciu

We consider the Hypergraph-$k$-cut problem. The input consists of a hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative hyperedge-costs $c: E\rightarrow R_+$ and a positive integer $k$. The objective is to find a least-cost subset $F\subseteq E$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chandra Chekuri

In this paper, we provide a deterministic polynomial time algorithm that determines satisfiability of 3-SAT. The complexity analysis for the algorithm takes into account no efficiency and yet provides a low enough bound, that efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ortho Flint , Asanka Wickramasinghe , Jason Brasse , Christopher Fowler

Rank-1 modifications in k-times (k > 1) often are performed to achieve rank-k modification. We propose a rank- k modification for enhancing computational efficiency. As the first step towards a rank- k modification, an algorithm to perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-05 HyungSeon Oh , Zhe Hu

The Subset Sum problem, which asks whether a set of $n$ integers has a subset summing to a target $t$, is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization. The classical meet-in-the-middle (MIM) algorithm of…

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NP-Complete problems have an important attribute that if one NP-Complete problem can be solved in polynomial time, all NP-Complete problems will have a polynomial solution. The 3-CNF-SAT problem is a NP-Complete problem and the primary…

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One of the most fundamental problems in Computer Science is the Knapsack problem. Given a set of n items with different weights and values, it asks to pick the most valuable subset whose total weight is below a capacity threshold T. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kyriakos Axiotis , Christos Tzamos

For current state-of-the-art DPLL SAT-solvers the two main bottlenecks are the amounts of time and memory used. In proof complexity, these resources correspond to the length and space of resolution proofs. There has been a long line of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-12 Eli Ben-Sasson , Jakob Nordström

The three domatic number problem asks whether a given undirected graph can be partitioned into at least three dominating sets, i.e., sets whose closed neighborhood equals the vertex set of the graph. Since this problem is NP-complete, no…

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Width parameterizations of SAT, such as tree-width and path-width, enable the study of computationally more tractable and practical SAT instances. We give two simple algorithms. One that runs simultaneously in time-space…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Shiteng Chen , Tiancheng Lou , Periklis Papakonstantinou , Bangsheng Tang

We present new results on the landscape of problems that can be solved by quantum Turing machines (QTM's) employing severely limited amounts of memory. In this context, we demonstrate two infinite time hierarchies of complexity classes…

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In the field of algorithmic analysis, one of the more well-known exercises is the subset sum problem. That is, given a set of integers, determine whether one or more integers in the set can sum to a target value. Aside from the brute-force…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Daniel Shea

We consider the SUBSET SUM problem and its important variants in this paper. In the SUBSET SUM problem, a (multi-)set $X$ of $n$ positive numbers and a target number $t$ are given, and the task is to find a subset of $X$ with the maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Xiaoyu Wu , Lin Chen

As a natural variant of the $k$-SAT problem, NAE-$k$-SAT additionally requires the literals in each clause to take not-all-equal (NAE) truth values. In this paper, we study the worst-case time complexities of solving NAE-$k$-SAT and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-27 S. Cliff Liu

The random $k$-SAT problem serves as a model that represents the 'typical' $k$-SAT instances. This model is thought to undergo a phase transition as the clause density changes, and it is believed that the random $k$-SAT problem is primarily…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Andreas Basse-O'Connor , Mette Skjøtt

We revisit the Subset Sum problem over the finite cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_m$ for some given integer $m$. A series of recent works has provided near-optimal algorithms for this problem under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis. Koiliaris…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Kyriakos Axiotis , Arturs Backurs , Karl Bringmann , Ce Jin , Vasileios Nakos , Christos Tzamos , Hongxun Wu

The best deterministic unconditionally proven integer factorization algorithms have exponential running time complexities of O(N^(1/4)) arithmetic operations, and conditional on the Riemann hypothesis, there is a deterministic algorithm of…

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