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Classically, for many computational problems one can conclude time lower bounds conditioned on the hardness of one or more of key problems: k-SAT, 3SUM and APSP. More recently, similar results have been derived in the quantum setting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Andris Ambainis , Harry Buhrman , Koen Leijnse , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

Imposing constraints on the output of a Deep Neural Net is one way to improve the quality of its predictions while loosening the requirements for labeled training data. Such constraints are usually imposed as soft constraints by adding new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Pablo Márquez-Neila , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Bin Packing with $k$ bins is a fundamental optimisation problem in which we are given a set of $n$ integers and a capacity $T$ and the goal is to partition the set into $k$ subsets, each of total sum at most $T$. Bin Packing is NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Karl Bringmann , Anita Dürr , Karol Węgrzycki

Recent works on the parallel complexity of Boosting have established strong lower bounds on the tradeoff between the number of training rounds $p$ and the total parallel work per round $t$. These works have also presented highly non-trivial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Arthur da Cunha , Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Kasper Green Larsen

The major challenge in designing a discriminative learning algorithm for predicting structured data is to address the computational issues arising from the exponential size of the output space. Existing algorithms make different assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Shankar Vembu

The goal of this paper is to set a constraint programming framework to solve lot-sizing problems. More specifically, we consider a single-item lot-sizing problem with time-varying lower and upper bounds for production and inventory. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Grigori German , Hadrien Cambazard , Jean-Philippe Gayon , Bernard Penz

Smoothed analysis is a powerful paradigm in overcoming worst-case intractability in unsupervised learning and high-dimensional data analysis. While polynomial time smoothed analysis guarantees have been obtained for worst-case intractable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Aditya Bhaskara , Aidao Chen , Aidan Perreault , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Lifted inference algorithms exploit symmetries in probabilistic models to speed up inference. They show impressive performance when calculating unconditional probabilities in relational models, but often resort to non-lifted inference when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Guy Van den Broeck , Adnan Darwiche

Using theory and experiments, this paper shows that the difficulty of making tradeoffs offers a parsimonious explanation for a wide range of behavioral phenomena. We develop a model of imprecise comparisons applicable to multiattribute,…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-01 Cassidy Shubatt , Jeffrey Yang

In recent years it has become popular to study dynamic problems in a sensitivity setting: Instead of allowing for an arbitrary sequence of updates, the sensitivity model only allows to apply batch updates of small size to the original input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Monika Henzinger , Andrea Lincoln , Stefan Neumann , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Proving lower bounds remains the most difficult of tasks in computational complexity theory. In this paper, we show that whereas most natural NP-complete problems belong to NLIN (linear time on nondeterministic RAMs), some of them,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Chapdelaine , Etienne Grandjean

This contribution examines optimization problems that involve stochastic dominance constraints. These problems have uncountably many constraints. We develop methods to solve the optimization problem by reducing the constraints to a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler , Miloš Kopa

We illustrate how computer-aided methods can be used to investigate the fundamental limits of the caching systems, which are significantly different from the conventional analytical approach usually seen in the information theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Chao Tian

Energy games belong to a class of turn-based two-player infinite-duration games}played on a weighted directed graph. It is one of the rare and intriguing combinatorial problems that lie in ${\sf NP} \cap {\sf co\mbox{-}NP}$, but are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Monika Henzinger , Sebastian Krinninger , Danupon Nanongkai

In the last decades, many efforts have focused on analyzing typical-case hardness in optimization and inference problems. Some recent work has pointed out that polynomial algorithms exist, running with a time that grows more than linearly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-05 M. C. Angelini , M. Avila-González , F. D'Amico , D. Machado , R. Mulet , F. Ricci-Tersenghi

The works presented in this habilitation concern the algorithmics of polynomials. This is a central topic in computer algebra, with numerous applications both within and outside the field - cryptography, error-correcting codes, etc. For…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bruno Grenet

This paper introduces a problem in which the state of a system needs to be determined through costly tests of its components by a limited number of testing units and before a given deadline. We also consider a closely related search problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Alessandro Agnetis , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Salim Rostami

The low-degree polynomial framework has been highly successful in predicting computational versus statistical gaps for high-dimensional problems in average-case analysis and machine learning. This success has led to the low-degree…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 He Jia , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

This paper studies an open question in the warehouse problem where a merchant trading a commodity tries to find an optimal inventory-trading policy to decide on purchase and sale quantities during a fixed time horizon in order to maximize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ishan Bansal , Oktay Günlük

Reducing the conditions under which a given set satisfies the stipulations of the subset sum proposition to a set of linear relationships, the question of whether a set satisfies subset sum may be answered in a polynomial number of steps by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Aubrey Alston