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We examine the issue of separation and code design for networks that operate over finite fields. We demonstrate that source-channel (or source-network) separation holds for several canonical network examples like the noisy multiple access…

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We consider the interpolation problem with the inverse multiquadric radial basis function. The problem usually produces a large dense linear system that has to be solved by iterative methods. The efficiency of such methods is strictly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Stefano De Marchi , Nadaniela Egidi , Josephin Giacomini , Pierluigi Maponi , Alessia Perticarini

Let $X_1, ..., X_m$ be a set of $m$ statistically dependent sources over the common alphabet $\mathbb{F}_q$, that are linearly independent when considered as functions over the sample space. We consider a distributed function computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 V. Lalitha , N. Prakash , K. Vinodh , P. Vijay Kumar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We focus on designing combinatorial algorithms for the Capacitated Network Design problem (Cap-SNDP). The Cap-SNDP is the problem of satisfying connectivity requirements when edges have costs and hard capacities. We begin by showing that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Rohit Khandekar , Guy Kortsarz , Zeev Nutov

We extend coded distributed computing over finite fields to allow the number of workers to be larger than the field size. We give codes that work for fully general matrix multiplication and show that in this case we serendipitously have…

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Network partitioning has gained recent attention as a pathway to enable decentralized operation and control in large-scale systems. This paper addresses the interplay between partitioning, observability, and sensor placement (SP) in dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Mohamad H. Kazma , Ahmad F. Taha

Traditional neural networks assume vectorial inputs as the network is arranged as layers of single line of computing units called neurons. This special structure requires the non-vectorial inputs such as matrices to be converted into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Junbin Gao , Yi Guo , Zhiyong Wang

The article proposes an n-dimensional mathematical model of the visual representation of a linear programming problem. This model makes it possible to use artificial neural networks to solve multidimensional linear optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Nikolay A. Olkhovsky , Leonid B. Sokolinsky

We show that under some widely believed assumptions, there are no higher-order algorithms for basic tasks in computational mathematics such as: Computing integrals with neural network integrands, computing solutions of a Poisson equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Michael Feischl , Fabian Zehetgruber

In most of the network coding problems with $k$ messages, the existence of binary network coding solution over $\mathbb{F}_2$ depends on the existence of adequate sets of $k$-dimensional binary vectors such that each set comprises of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mahesh Babu Vaddi , B. Sundar Rajan

The capacity of symmetric instance of the multiple unicast index coding problem with neighboring antidotes (side-information) with number of messages equal to the number of receivers was given by Maleki, Cadambe and Jafar. In this paper we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Mahesh Babu Vaddi , Roop Kumar Bhattaram , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper investigates the enumeration, rate region computation, and hierarchy of general multi-source multi-sink hyperedge networks under network coding, which includes multiple network models, such as independent distributed storage…

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A $q$-matroid is the analogue of a matroid which arises by replacing the finite ground set of a matroid with a finite-dimensional vector space over a finite field. These $q$-matroids are motivated by coding theory as the representable…

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This paper considers vector network coding solutions based on rank-metric codes and subspace codes. The main result of this paper is that vector solutions can significantly reduce the required alphabet size compared to the optimal scalar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Tuvi Etzion , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Symbolic computation, powered by modern computer algebra systems, has important applications in mathematical reasoning through exact deep computations. The efficiency of symbolic computation is largely constrained by such deep computations…

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Given a capacitated communication network $\mathcal{N}$ and a function f that needs to be computed on $\mathcal{N},$ we study the problem of generating a computation and communication schedule in $\mathcal{N}$ to maximize the rate of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Pooja Vyavahare , Nutan Limaye Ajit A. Diwan , D. Manjunath

A common approach to controlling complex networks is to directly control a subset of input nodes, which then controls the remaining nodes via network interactions. While techniques have been proposed for selecting input nodes based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Andrew Clark , Basel Alomair , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

This work establishes the fundamental limits of the classical problem of multi-user distributed computing of linearly separable functions. In particular, we consider a distributed computing setting involving $L$ users, each requesting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Neural networks are versatile tools for computation, having the ability to approximate a broad range of functions. An important problem in the theory of deep neural networks is expressivity; that is, we want to understand the functions that…

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