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The distance transform algorithm is popular in computer vision and machine learning domains. It is used to minimize quadratic functions over a grid of points. Felzenszwalb and Huttenlocher (2004) describe an O(N) algorithm for computing the…
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We observe that any $T(n)$ time algorithm (quantum or classical) for several central linear algebraic problems, such as computing $\det(A)$, $tr(A^3)$, or $tr(A^{-1})$ for an $n \times n$ integer matrix $A$, yields a $O(T(n)) + \tilde…
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We observe message-efficient distributed algorithms for the Set Cover problem. Given a ground set $U$ of $n$ elements and $m$ subsets of $U$, we aim to find the minimal number of these subsets that contain all elements. In the default…
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We give a quantum algorithm to exactly solve certain problems in combinatorial optimization, including weighted MAX-2-SAT as well as problems where the objective function is a weighted sum of products of Ising variables, all terms of the…
In this paper, we propose a two-phase algorithm for solving continuous rank-one quadratic knapsack problems (R1QKP). In particular, we study the solution structure of the problem without the knapsack constraint. We propose an $O(n\log n)$…
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Clustering is a hard discrete optimization problem. Nonconvex approaches such as low-rank semidefinite programming (SDP) have recently demonstrated promising statistical and local algorithmic guarantees for cluster recovery. Due to the…
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