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Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

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We study termination time and recurrence time in programs with unbounded recursion, which are either randomized or operate on some statistically quantified inputs. As the underlying formal model for such programs we use probabilistic…

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It is common to encounter situations where one must solve a sequence of similar computational problems. Running a standard algorithm with worst-case runtime guarantees on each instance will fail to take advantage of valuable structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Daniel Alabi , Adam Tauman Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Cameron Musco , Christos Tzamos , Ellen Vitercik

The phase folding optimization is a circuit optimization used in many quantum compilers as a fast and effective way of reducing the number of high-cost gates in a quantum circuit. However, existing formulations of the optimization rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Matthew Amy , Joseph Lunderville

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

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

The mathematical runtime analysis of evolutionary algorithms traditionally regards the time an algorithm needs to find a solution of a certain quality when initialized with a random population. In practical applications it may be possible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Denis Antipov , Maxim Buzdalov , Benjamin Doerr

We consider the \emph{approximate minimum selection} problem in presence of \emph{independent random comparison faults}. This problem asks to select one of the smallest $k$ elements in a linearly-ordered collection of $n$ elements by only…

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There exist several results on deciding termination and computing runtime bounds for triangular weakly non-linear loops (twn-loops). We show how to use results on such subclasses of programs where complexity bounds are computable within…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nils Lommen , Fabian Meyer , Jürgen Giesl

Randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms are frequently applied to dynamic combinatorial optimization problems. Within this paper, we present a dynamic model of the classic Weighted Vertex Cover problem and analyze the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Feng Shi , Frank Neumann , Jianxin Wang

We study algorithms for solving the problem of constructing a text (long string) from a dictionary (sequence of small strings). The problem has an application in bioinformatics and has a connection with the Sequence assembly method for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Kamil Khadiev , Vladislav Remidovskii

We provide a simple new randomized contraction approach to the global minimum cut problem for simple undirected graphs. The contractions exploit 2-out edge sampling from each vertex rather than the standard uniform edge sampling. We…

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We construct exact confidence intervals for the average treatment effect in randomized experiments with binary outcomes using sequences of randomization tests. Our approach does not rely on large-sample approximations and is valid for all…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Peng Zhang

Round Robin, considered as the most widely adopted CPU scheduling algorithm, undergoes severe problems directly related to quantum size. If time quantum chosen is too large, the response time of the processes is considered too high. On the…

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Automated code generation can systematically exceed expert hand-optimization for recurrence relations-computational primitives ubiquitous in orthogonal polynomials, special functions, numerical integration, and molecular integral…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rubén Darío Guerrero

We provide new high-accuracy randomized algorithms for solving linear systems and regression problems that are well-conditioned except for $k$ large singular values. For solving such $d \times d$ positive definite system our algorithms…

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We study the problem of policy evaluation with linear function approximation and present efficient and practical algorithms that come with strong optimality guarantees. We begin by proving lower bounds that establish baselines on both the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-16 Tianjiao Li , Guanghui Lan , Ashwin Pananjady

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms has received much attention due to its exponential speedup compared to existing algorithms, under certain data storage assumptions. The improvements are noticeable in fundamental linear algebra tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

The paper is devoted to upper bounds on run-time of Non-Elitist Genetic Algorithms until some target subset of solutions is visited for the first time. In particular, we consider the sets of optimal solutions and the sets of local optima as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Duc-Cuong Dang , Anton V. Eremeev , Per Kristian Lehre

The formula-evaluation problem is defined recursively. A formula's evaluation is the evaluation of a gate, the inputs of which are themselves independent formulas. Despite this pure recursive structure, the problem is combinatorially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Ben W. Reichardt