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This paper considers the multi-parametric linear complementarity problem (pLCP) with sufficient matrices. The main result is an algorithm to find a polyhedral decomposition of the set of feasible parameters and to construct a piecewise…

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LLM test-time compute (or LLM inference) via search has emerged as a promising research area with rapid developments. However, current frameworks often adopt distinct perspectives on three key aspects: task definition, LLM profiling, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xinzhe Li

In this work we describe an efficient implementation of a hierarchy of algorithms for the decomposition of dense matrices over the field with two elements (GF(2)). Matrix decomposition is an essential building block for solving dense…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2010-06-10 Martin R. Albrecht , Clément Pernet

Indefinite quadratic programs (QPs) are known to be very difficult to be solved to global optimality, so are linear programs with linear complementarity constraints. Treating the former as a subclass of the latter, this paper presents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Xinyao Zhang , Shaoning Han , Jong-Shi Pang

We introduce a new approximate solution technique for first-order Markov decision processes (FOMDPs). Representing the value function linearly w.r.t. a set of first-order basis functions, we compute suitable weights by casting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Scott Sanner , Craig Boutilier

The $N$th power of a polynomial matrix of fixed size and degree can be computed by binary powering as fast as multiplying two polynomials of linear degree in~$N$. When Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is available, the resulting complexity is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Alin Bostan , Vincent Neiger , Sergey Yurkevich

We introduce the problem of ranking with slot constraints, which can be used to model a wide range of application problems -- from college admission with limited slots for different majors, to composing a stratified cohort of eligible…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Wentao Guo , Andrew Wang , Bradon Thymes , Thorsten Joachims

We propose a novel approach for navigating in polygonal environments by synthesizing controllers that take as input relative displacement measurements with respect to a set of landmarks. Our algorithm is based on solving a sequence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Mahroo Bahreinian , Erfan Aasi , Roberto Tron

We study a class of functional problems reducible to computing $f^{(n)}(x)$ for inputs $n$ and $x$, where $f$ is a polynomial-time bijection. As we prove, the definition is robust against variations in the type of reduction used in its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Eppstein

The phase space flow of a dynamical system leading to the solution of Linear Programming (LP) problems is explored as an example of complexity analysis in an analog computation framework. An ensemble of LP problems with $n$ variables and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asa Ben-Hur , Joshua Feinberg , Shmuel Fishman , Hava T. Siegelmann

This paper describes our experience developing polynomial approximations for trigonometric functions that produce correctly rounded results for multiple representations and rounding modes using the RLIBM approach. A key challenge with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sehyeok Park , Santosh Nagarakatte

Solving symmetric positive definite linear problems is a fundamental computational task in machine learning. The exact solution, famously, is cubicly expensive in the size of the matrix. To alleviate this problem, several linear-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Filip de Roos , Philipp Hennig

Program synthesis has seen many new applications in recent years, in large part thanks to the introduction of SyGuS. However, no existing SyGuS solvers have support for synthesizing recursive functions. We introduce an multi-phase algorithm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shmuel Berman , Mark Santolucito

We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Evgeny Shindin , Gideon Weiss

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (MMF) was recently introduced as an alternative to the dominant low-rank paradigm in order to capture structure in matrices at multiple different scales. Using ideas from multiresolution analysis (MRA),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Shubhendu Trivedi , Risi Kondor

Fermi Problems (FPs) are mathematical reasoning tasks that require human-like logic and numerical reasoning. Unlike other reasoning questions, FPs often involve real-world impracticalities or ambiguous concepts, making them challenging even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Zishuo Liu , Carlos Rabat Villarreal , Mostafa Rahgouy , Amit Das , Zheng Zhang , Chang Ren , Dongji Feng

A robust algorithm for non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is presented in this paper with the purpose of dealing with large-scale data, where the separability assumption is satisfied. In particular, we modify the Linear Programming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-10 Jason Gejie Liu , Shuchin Aeron

In many problems, the inputs arrive over time, and must be dealt with irrevocably when they arrive. Such problems are online problems. A common method of solving online problems is to first solve the corresponding linear program, and then…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Umang Bhaskar , Lisa Fleischer

This paper considers the problem of completing a rating matrix based on sub-sampled matrix entries as well as observed social graphs and hypergraphs. We show that there exists a \emph{sharp threshold} on the sample probability for the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang

We study the complexity of solving the \emph{generalized MinRank problem}, i.e. computing the set of points where the evaluation of a polynomial matrix has rank at most $r$. A natural algebraic representation of this problem gives rise to a…

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