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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

The low rank tensor approximation problem (LRTAP) is to find a tensor whose rank is small and that is close to a given one. This paper studies the LRTAP when the tensor to be approximated is close to a low rank one. Both symmetric and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Jiawang Nie

We give new and efficient black-box reconstruction algorithms for some classes of depth-$3$ arithmetic circuits. As a consequence, we obtain the first efficient algorithm for computing the tensor rank and for finding the optimal tensor…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Vishwas Bhargava , Shubhangi Saraf , Ilya Volkovich

Tensor methods are among the most prominent tools for the numerical solution of high-dimensional problems where functions of multiple variables have to be approximated. These methods exploit the tensor structure of function spaces and apply…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Anthony Nouy

Interpreting three-leaf binary trees or {\em rooted triples} as constraints yields an entailment relation, whereby binary trees satisfying some rooted triples must also thus satisfy others, and thence a closure operator, which is known to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Matthew P. Johnson

Matrix factorization problems over various semirings naturally arise in different contexts of modern pure and applied mathematics. These problems are very hard in general and cause computational difficulties in applications. We give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Yaroslav Shitov

Tensor networks developed in the context of condensed matter physics try to approximate order-$N$ tensors with a reduced number of degrees of freedom that is only polynomial in $N$ and arranged as a network of partially contracted smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hao Chen , Thomas Barthel

Recently, Tensor Ring Networks (TRNs) have been applied in deep networks, achieving remarkable successes in compression ratio and accuracy. Although highly related to the performance of TRNs, rank selection is seldom studied in previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Nannan Li , Yu Pan , Yaran Chen , Zixiang Ding , Dongbin Zhao , Zenglin Xu

Tensors are fundamental in mathematics, computer science, and physics. Their study through algebraic geometry and representation theory has proved very fruitful in the context of algebraic complexity theory and quantum information. In…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Maxim van den Berg , Matthias Christandl , Vladimir Lysikov , Harold Nieuwboer , Michael Walter , Jeroen Zuiddam

We present an $O^*(|\mathbb{F}|^{\min\left\{R,\ \sum_{d\ge 2} n_d\right\} + (R-n_0)(\sum_{d\ne 0} n_d)})$-time algorithm for determining whether the rank of a concise tensor $T\in\mathbb{F}^{n_0\times\dots\times n_{D-1}}$ is $\le R$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jason Yang

The tensor rank (also known as generalized Schmidt rank) of multipartite pure states plays an important role in the study of entanglement classifications and transformations. We employ powerful tools from the theory of homogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 Lin Chen , Eric Chitambar , Runyao Duan , Zhengfeng Ji , Andreas Winter

Canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) is at the core of fast matrix multiplication, a computational problem with widespread implications across several seemingly unrelated problems in computer science. Much recent progress in this field…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jason Yang

We study linear problems defined on tensor products of Hilbert spaces with an additional (anti-) symmetry property. We construct a linear algorithm that uses finitely many continuous linear functionals and show an explicit formula for its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-16 Markus Weimar

We study the problem of low-rank matrix completion for symmetric matrices. The minimum rank of a completion of a generic partially specified symmetric matrix depends only on the location of the specified entries, and not their values, if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Daniel Irving Bernstein , Grigoriy Blekherman , Kisun Lee

The Tensor-Train (TT) format is a highly compact low-rank representation for high-dimensional tensors. TT is particularly useful when representing approximations to the solutions of certain types of parametrized partial differential…

We prove the \textbf{NP}-hardness, using Karp reductions, of some problems related to the correlation polytope and its corresponding cone, spanned by all of the $n\times n$ rank-one matrices over $\{0,1\}$. The problems are: membership,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Alberto Caprara , Fabio Furini , Claudio Gentile , Leo Liberti , Andrea Lodi

Mulmuley and Sohoni (GCT1 in SICOMP 2001, GCT2 in SICOMP 2008) proposed to view the permanent versus determinant problem as a specific orbit closure problem and to attack it by methods from geometric invariant and representation theory. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-11-08 Peter Buergisser , Christian Ikenmeyer

The geometry of the set of restrictions of rank-one tensors to some of their coordinates is studied. This gives insight into the problem of rank-one completion of partial tensors. Particular emphasis is put on the semialgebraic nature of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Thomas Kahle , Kaie Kubjas , Mario Kummer , Zvi Rosen

The relationship between the complexity classes P and NP is an unsolved question in the field of theoretical computer science. In this paper, we look at the link between the P - NP question and the "Deterministic" versus "Non Deterministic"…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-03-28 M. Rémon

Matrices with low-rank structure are ubiquitous in scientific computing. Choosing an appropriate rank is a key step in many computational algorithms that exploit low-rank structure. However, estimating the rank has been done largely in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Maike Meier , Yuji Nakatsukasa