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Recently, Arjevani et al. [1] established a lower bound of iteration complexity for the first-order optimization under an $L$-smooth condition and a bounded noise variance assumption. However, a thorough review of existing literature on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bohan Wang , Jingwen Fu , Huishuai Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Wei Chen

The role of polymorphisms in determining the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems is well established. In this context we study the stability of CSP complexity and polymorphism properties under some basic graph theoretic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Marcel Jackson , Tomasz Kowalski , Todd Niven

Large Language Models (LLMs) have benefited enormously from scaling, yet these gains are bounded by five fundamental limitations: (1) hallucination, (2) context compression, (3) reasoning degradation, (4) retrieval fragility, and (5)…

Reinforcement learning exhibits potential in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models, yet it is hard to scale for the low sample efficiency during the rollout phase. Existing methods attempt to improve efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Deyang Kong , Qi Guo , Xiangyu Xi , Wei Wang , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

The standard LP relaxation of the asymmetric traveling salesman problem has been conjectured to have a constant integrality gap in the metric case. We prove this conjecture when restricted to shortest path metrics of node-weighted digraphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Ola Svensson

Sparse reconstruction approaches using the re-weighted l1-penalty have been shown, both empirically and theoretically, to provide a significant improvement in recovering sparse signals in comparison to the l1-relaxation. However, numerical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-06 Dmitry Malioutov , Aleksandr Aravkin

In this work, we consider adaptive linear programming (ALP) decoding of linear codes over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$ of size $p$ where $p$ is a prime. In particular, we provide a general construction of valid inequalities for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Eirik Rosnes , Michael Helmling

We consider approximation algorithms for covering integer programs of the form min $\langle c, x \rangle $ over $x \in \mathbb{N}^n $ subject to $A x \geq b $ and $x \leq d$; where $A \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^{m \times n}$, $b \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

This paper proposes tight semidefinite relaxations for polynomial optimization. The optimality conditions are investigated. We show that generally Lagrange multipliers can be expressed as polynomial functions in decision variables over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Jiawang Nie

We show that under mild assumptions for a problem whose solutions admit a dynamic programming-like recurrence relation, we can still find a solution under additional packing constraints, which need to be satisfied approximately. The number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Etienne Bamas , Shi Li , Lars Rohwedder

We prove a strengthening of Chang's lemma for subsets of $\mathbb F_p^n$. The classical conclusion that the large spectrum is contained in a subspace of dimension at most $2\varepsilon^{-2}\log(1/\alpha)$ is refined to show that every…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Gaia Carenini , Leonardo Franchi

We consider the problem of computing the Lebesgue volume of compact basic semi-algebraic sets. In full generality, it can be approximated as closely as desired by a converging hierarchy of upper bounds obtained by applying the Moment-SOS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Matteo Tacchi , Jean B Lasserre , Didier Henrion

Recently, Ohsaka [STACS'23] put forth the Reconfiguration Inapproximability Hypothesis (RIH), which roughly asserts that there is some $\epsilon>0$ such that given as input a $k$-CSP instance (for some constant $k$) over some constant sized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Venkatesan Guruswami , Karthik C. S. , Pasin Manurangsi , Xuandi Ren , Kewen Wu

We study LP-rounding approximation algorithms for metric uncapacitated facility-location problems. We first give a new analysis for the algorithm of Chudak and Shmoys, which differs from the analysis of Byrka and Aardal in that now we do…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Jaroslaw Byrka , MohammadReza Ghodsi , Aravind Srinivasan

A stress equilibration procedure for linear elasticity is proposed and analyzed in this paper with emphasis on the behavior for (nearly) incompressible materials. Based on the displacement-pressure approximation computed with a stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Fleurianne Bertrand , Bernhard Kober , Marcel Moldenhauer , Gerhard Starke

A subset of Q^n is called semilinear (or piecewise linear) if it is Boolean combination of linear half-spaces. We study the computational complexity of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) over the rationals when all the constraints…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino

A Datalog program solves a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) if and only if it derives the goal predicate precisely on the unsatisfiable instances of the CSP. There are three Datalog fragments that are particularly important for…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Manuel Bodirsky , Florian Starke

The paper is a part of an ongoing program which aims to show that the existential theory in free groups (hyperbolic groups or even toral relatively hyperbolic) is NP-complete. For that we study compression of solutions with straight-line…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Volker Diekert , Olga Kharlampovich , Atefeh Mohajeri Moghaddam

In this chapter, we introduce the relaxed inertial proximal splitting algorithm (RIPSA) for hierarchical equilibrium problems. Using Opial-Passty's lemma, we first establish weak ergodic and weak convergence of the sequence generated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Zakaria Mazgouri , Hassan Riahi , Michel Théra

We study the well-known Label Cover problem under the additional requirement that problem instances have large girth. We show that if the girth is some $k$, the problem is roughly $2^{\log^{1-\epsilon} n/k}$ hard to approximate for all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Michael Dinitz , Guy Kortsarz , Ran Raz