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Automatically tuning parallel compute kernels allows libraries and frameworks to achieve performance on a wide range of hardware, however these techniques are typically focused on finding optimal kernel parameters for particular input sizes…

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Large-scale quantum computers have the potential to hold computational capabilities beyond conventional computers for certain problems. However, the physical qubits within a quantum computer are prone to noise and decoherence, which must be…

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The 3-\textsc{Hitting Set} problem is also called the \textsc{Vertex Cover} problem on 3-uniform hypergraphs. In this paper, we address kernelizations of the \textsc{Vertex Cover} problem on 3-uniform hypergraphs. We show that this problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-20 Xuan Cai

We study the kernel complexity of constraint satisfaction problems over a finite domain, parameterized by the number of variables, whose constraint language consists of two relations: the non-equality relation and an additional…

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Makespan minimization (on parallel identical or unrelated machines) is arguably the most natural and studied scheduling problem. A common approach in practical algorithm design is to reduce the size of a given instance by a fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký

The technique of kernelization consists in extracting, from an instance of a problem, an essentially equivalent instance whose size is bounded in a parameter k. Besides being the basis for efficient param-eterized algorithms, this method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Clément Carbonnel , Emmanuel Hébrard

The success of kernel-based learning methods depend on the choice of kernel. Recently, kernel learning methods have been proposed that use data to select the most appropriate kernel, usually by combining a set of base kernels. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Arash Afkanpour , Csaba Szepesvari , Michael Bowling

Neural kernels have drastically increased performance on diverse and nonstandard data modalities but require significantly more compute, which previously limited their application to smaller datasets. In this work, we address this by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-10 Ben Adlam , Jaehoon Lee , Shreyas Padhy , Zachary Nado , Jasper Snoek

The notion of a (polynomial) kernelization from parameterized complexity is a well-studied model for efficient preprocessing for hard computational problems. By now, it is quite well understood which parameterized problems do or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Leonid Antipov , Stefan Kratsch

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

In the framework of computational complexity and in an effort to define a more natural reduction for problems of equivalence, we investigate the recently introduced kernel reduction, a reduction that operates on each element of a pair…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Jeffrey Finkelstein , Benjamin Hescott

The kernel-based multi-scale method has been proven to be a powerful approximation method for scattered data approximation problems which is computationally superior to conventional kernel-based interpolation techniques. The multi-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Federico Lot , Christian Rieger

Kernelization is a general theoretical framework for preprocessing instances of NP-hard problems into (generally smaller) instances with bounded size, via the repeated application of data reduction rules. For the fundamental Max Cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Damir Ferizovic , Demian Hespe , Sebastian Lamm , Matthias Mnich , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

Fixed-parameter algorithms have been successfully applied to solve numerous difficult problems within acceptable time bounds on large inputs. However, most fixed-parameter algorithms are inherently \emph{sequential} and, thus, make no use…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Max Bannach , Christoph Stockhusen , Till Tantau

A polynomial Turing kernel for some parameterized problem $P$ is a polynomial-time algorithm that solves $P$ using queries to an oracle of $P$ whose sizes are upper-bounded by some polynomial in the parameter. Here the term "polynomial"…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Till Fluschnik , Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin

We study the problem of computing a full Conjunctive Query in parallel using $p$ heterogeneous machines. Our computational model is similar to the MPC model, but each machine has its own cost function mapping from the number of bits it…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Simon Frisk , Paraschos Koutris

Modern program runtime is dominated by segments of repeating code called kernels. Kernels are accelerated by increasing memory locality, increasing data-parallelism, and exploiting producer-consumer parallelism among kernels - which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Richard Uhrie , Chaitali Chakrabarti , John Brunhaver

A kernelization algorithm for a computational problem is a procedure which compresses an instance into an equivalent instance whose size is bounded with respect to a complexity parameter. For the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT), and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Victor Lagerkvist , Magnus Wahlström

The propositional planning problem is a notoriously difficult computational problem. Downey et al. (1999) initiated the parameterized analysis of planning (with plan length as the parameter) and B\"ackstr\"om et al. (2012) picked up this…

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The question of what can be computed, and how efficiently, are at the core of computer science. Not surprisingly, in distributed systems and networking research, an equally fundamental question is what can be computed in a…

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