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We consider the solution of the subset sum problem based on a parallel computer consisting of self-propelled biological agents moving in a nanostructured network that encodes the NP-complete task in its geometry. We develop an approximate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Michael Konopik , Till Korten , Heiner Linke , Eric Lutz

We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

We propose a new heuristic algorithm for solving random subset sum instances $a_1, \ldots, a_n, t \in \mathbb{Z}_{2^n}$, which play a crucial role in cryptographic constructions. Our algorithm is search tree-based and solves the instances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Andre Esser , Alexander May

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

Solving random subset sum instances plays an important role in constructing cryptographic systems. For the random subset sum problem, in 2013 Bernstein et al. proposed a quantum algorithm with heuristic time complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yang Li , Hongbo Li

Knapsack and Subset Sum are fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Recently there has been a growing interest in understanding the best possible pseudopolynomial running times for these problems with respect to various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Adam Polak , Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

The usefulness of parameterized algorithmics has often depended on what Niedermeier has called, "the art of problem parameterization". In this paper we introduce and explore a novel but general form of parameterization: the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Michael R. Fellows , Serge Gaspers , Frances A. Rosamond

We derive a stochastic gradient algorithm for semidefinite optimization using randomization techniques. The algorithm uses subsampling to reduce the computational cost of each iteration and the subsampling ratio explicitly controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Alexandre d'Aspremont

A determined algorithm is presented for solving the rSUM problem for any natural r with a sub-quadratic assessment of time complexity in some cases. In terms of an amount of memory used the obtained algorithm is the nlog^3(n) order. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Valerii Sopin

We consider the problem of revealing a small hidden lattice from the knowledge of a low-rank sublattice modulo a given sufficiently large integer -- the {\em Hidden Lattice Problem}. A central motivation of study for this problem is the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Luca Notarnicola , Gabor Wiese

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University. In this work we introduce several new optimisation methods for problems in machine learning. Our algorithms broadly fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Aaron Defazio

The Subset Sum Problem is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization, with many real-world applications. The Random Subset Sum Problem (RSSP) is a more applicable version of subset sum, where numbers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Edwin Chen , Christof Teuscher

The subset sum problem is one of the simplest and most fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. We consider two extensions of this problem: The subset sum problem with digraph constraint (SSG) and subset sum problem with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

A very simple example of an algorithmic problem solvable by dynamic programming is to maximize, over sets A in {1,2,...,n}, the objective function |A| - \sum_i \xi_i 1(i \in A,i+1 \in A) for given \xi_i > 0. This problem, with random…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-04 David J. Aldous , Charles Bordenave , Marc Lelarge

In seeking out an algorithm to test out the capability of the IBM Quantum Experience quantum computer, we were given a review paper covering various algorithms for solving the subset-sum problem, including both classical and quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-09 David Gunter , Toks Adedoyin

We propose a new stochastic gradient method for optimizing the sum of a finite set of smooth functions, where the sum is strongly convex. While standard stochastic gradient methods converge at sublinear rates for this problem, the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Nicolas Le Roux , Mark Schmidt , Francis Bach

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of $n$ functions over a convex parameter set $\mathcal{C} \subset \mathbb{R}^p$ where $n\gg p\gg 1$. In this regime, algorithms which utilize sub-sampling techniques are known to be effective. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-03 Murat A. Erdogdu , Andrea Montanari

This paper presents a novel algorithm solving the classic problem of generating a random sample of size s from population of size n with non-uniform probabilities. The sampling is done with replacement. The algorithm requires constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michał Startek

This paper elaborates on a sieving technique that has first been applied in 2018 for improving bounds on deterministic integer factorization. We will generalize the sieve in order to obtain a polynomial-time reduction from integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Markus Hittmeir

In this work, we propose a novel optimization model termed "sum-of-minimum" optimization. This model seeks to minimize the sum or average of $N$ objective functions over $k$ parameters, where each objective takes the minimum value of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Lisang Ding , Ziang Chen , Xinshang Wang , Wotao Yin