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Given n positive integers, the Modular Subset Sum problem asks if a subset adds up to a given target t modulo a given integer m. This is a natural generalization of the Subset Sum problem (where m=+\infty) with ties to additive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kyriakos Axiotis , Arturs Backurs , Christos Tzamos

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

We revisit the Subset Sum problem over the finite cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_m$ for some given integer $m$. A series of recent works has provided near-optimal algorithms for this problem under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis. Koiliaris…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Kyriakos Axiotis , Arturs Backurs , Karl Bringmann , Ce Jin , Vasileios Nakos , Christos Tzamos , Hongxun Wu

This paper introduces a deterministic algorithm for solving an instance of the Subset Sum Problem based on a new method entitled the Bipartite Synthesis Method. The algorithm is described and shown to have worst-case limiting performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Scott Lilienthal

The modular subset sum problem consists of deciding, given a modulus $m$, a multiset $S$ of $n$ integers in $0..m-1$, and a target integer $t$, whether there exists a subset of $S$ with elements summing to $t \mod m $, and to report such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jean Cardinal , John Iacono

The Subset Sum problem asks whether a given set of $n$ positive integers contains a subset of elements that sum up to a given target $t$. It is an outstanding open question whether the $O^*(2^{n/2})$-time algorithm for Subset Sum by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Per Austrin , Mikko Koivisto , Petteri Kaski , Jesper Nederlof

The efficiency of exact subset sum problem algorithms which compute individual subset sums is defined as $e=min(T/z, 1)$, where $z$ is the number of subset sums computed. $e$ is related to these algorithms' computational complexity. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nick Dawes

We study a broad class of algorithmic problems with an "additive flavor" such as computing sumsets, 3SUM, Subset Sum and geometric pattern matching. Our starting point is that these problems can often be solved efficiently for integers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nick Fischer

A major goal in the area of exact exponential algorithms is to give an algorithm for the (worst-case) $n$-input Subset Sum problem that runs in time $2^{(1/2 - c)n}$ for some constant $c>0$. In this paper we give a Subset Sum algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xi Chen , Yaonan Jin , Tim Randolph , Rocco A. Servedio

The Subset-Sums Ratio problem (SSR) is an optimization problem in which, given a set of integers, the goal is to find two subsets such that the ratio of their sums is as close to 1 as possible. In this paper we develop a new FPTAS for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Nikolaos Melissinos , Aris Pagourtzis

The "Subset Sum problem" is a very well-known NP-complete problem. In this work, a top-k variation of the "Subset Sum problem" is considered. This problem has wide application in recommendation systems, where instead of k best objects the k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Biswajit Sanyal , Subhashis Majumder , Priya Ranjan Sinha Mahapatra

Subset-Sum and k-SAT are two of the most extensively studied problems in computer science, and conjectures about their hardness are among the cornerstones of fine-grained complexity. One of the most intriguing open problems in this area is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann , Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

We study the parameterized complexity of algorithmic problems whose input is an integer set $A$ in terms of the doubling constant $C := |A + A|/|A|$, a fundamental measure of additive structure. We present evidence that this new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tim Randolph , Karol Węgrzycki

In the subset sum problem we are given n positive integers along with a target integer t. A solution is a subset of these integers summing to t. In this short note we show that for a given subset sum instance there is a proof of size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Jesper Nederlof

We present a new FPTAS for the Subset Sum Ratio problem, which, given a set of integers, asks for two disjoint subsets such that the ratio of their sums is as close to $1$ as possible. Our scheme makes use of exact and approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Giannis Alonistiotis , Antonis Antonopoulos , Nikolaos Melissinos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stavros Petsalakis , Manolis Vasilakis

We consider the Subset Sum Ratio Problem ($SSR$), in which given a set of integers the goal is to find two subsets such that the ratio of their sums is as close to~1 as possible, and introduce a family of variations that capture additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nikolaos Melissinos , Aris Pagourtzis , Theofilos Triommatis

In the Equal-Subset-Sum problem, we are given a set $S$ of $n$ integers and the problem is to decide if there exist two disjoint nonempty subsets $A,B \subseteq S$, whose elements sum up to the same value. The problem is NP-complete. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Marcin Mucha , Jesper Nederlof , Jakub Pawlewicz , Karol Węgrzycki

Consider positive integral solutions $x \in \mathbb{Z}^{n+1}$ to the equation $a_0 x_0 + \ldots + a_n x_n = t$. In the so called unbounded subset sum problem, the objective is to decide whether such a solution exists, whereas in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Kim-Manuel Klein

The Subset Sum problem, which asks whether a set of $n$ integers has a subset summing to a target $t$, is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization. The classical meet-in-the-middle (MIM) algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jesus Salas

The main purpose of this paper is to study the NP-complete subset-sum problem, not in the usual context of time-complexity-based classification of the algorithms (exponential/polynomial), but through a new kind of algorithmic classification…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Antonios Syreloglou