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We consider the primal problem of finding the zeros of the sum of a maximally monotone operator with the composition of another maximally monotone operator with a linear continuous operator and a corresponding dual problem formulated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-27 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Andre Heinrich

We present an exact and complete algorithm to isolate the real solutions of a zero-dimensional bivariate polynomial system. The proposed algorithm constitutes an elimination method which improves upon existing approaches in a number of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Eric Berberich , Pavel Emeliyanenko , Michael Sagraloff

Fibonacci gate problems have severed as computation primitives to solve other problems by holographic algorithm and play an important role in the dichotomy of exact counting for Holant and CSP frameworks. We generalize them to weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Pinyan Lu , Menghui Wang , Chihao Zhang

Determining the satisfiability of Boolean constraint-satisfaction problems with different types of constraints, that is hybrid constraints, is a well-studied problem with important applications. We study here a new application of hybrid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for a class of Holant problems on 3-regular bipartite graphs. Given an arbitrary nonnegative weighted symmetric constraint function $f = [x_0, x_1, x_2, x_3]$, we prove that the bipartite Holant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Austen Z. Fan , Jin-Yi Cai

Binary quadratic programming problems have attracted much attention in the last few decades due to their potential applications. This type of problems are NP-hard in general, and still considered a challenge in the design of efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Khaled Elbassioni , Trung Thanh Nguyen

For an even integer t \geq 2, the Matchings Connecivity matrix H_t is a matrix that has rows and columns both labeled by all perfect matchings of the complete graph K_t on t vertices; an entry H_t[M_1,M_2] is 1 if M_1\cup M_2 is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Marek Cygan , Stefan Kratsch , Jesper Nederlof

The realization space of geometric constraint systems is given by the vanishing locus of polynomials corresponding to natural geometric constraints. Such geometric constraint systems arise in many real-world scenarios such as structural…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Matthias Adrian-Himmelmann

This paper stands at the intersection of two distinct lines of research. One line is "holographic algorithms," a powerful approach introduced by Valiant for solving various counting problems in computer science; the other is "normal factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Yongyi Mao

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for Holant Problems on 3-regular graphs with an arbitrary complex-valued edge function. Three new techniques are introduced: (1) higher dimensional iterations in interpolation; (2) Eigenvalue Shifted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Michael Kowalczyk , Jin-Yi Cai

In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm that approximates sufficiently high-value Max 2-CSPs on sufficiently dense graphs to within $O(N^{\varepsilon})$ approximation ratio for any constant $\varepsilon > 0$. Using this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Pasin Manurangsi , Dana Moshkovitz

This paper formalizes connections between stability of polynomials and convergence rates of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. We prove that if a (multivariate) partition function is nonzero in a region around a real point…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zongchen Chen , Kuikui Liu , Eric Vigoda

Consider a distributed coding for computing problem with constant decoding locality, i.e., with a vanishing error probability, any single sample of the function can be approximately recovered by probing only constant number of compressed…

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In this paper we show a new way of constructing deterministic polynomial-time approximation algorithms for computing complex-valued evaluations of a large class of graph polynomials on bounded degree graphs. In particular, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

Valiant's Holant theorem is a powerful tool for algorithms and reductions for counting problems. It states that if two sets $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ of tensors (a.k.a. constraint functions or signatures) are related by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jin-Yi Cai , Ben Young

${ NP}$-complete problem "Hamiltonian cycle"\ for graph $G=(V,E)$ is extended to the "Hamiltonian Complement of the Graph"\ problem of finding the minimal cardinality set $H$ containing additional edges so that graph $G=(V,E\cup H)$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Anatoly Panyukov

We show that the perfect matching problem in general graphs is in Quasi-NC. That is, we give a deterministic parallel algorithm which runs in $O(\log^3 n)$ time on $n^{O(\log^2 n)}$ processors. The result is obtained by a derandomization of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Ola Svensson , Jakub Tarnawski

In this work, we present a methodology for devising forward-backward methods for finding zeros in the sum of a finite number of maximally monotone operators. We extend the framework and techniques from [SIAM J. Optim., 34 (2024), pp.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Rubén Campoy , César López-Pastor

We prove a complexity classification theorem that classifies all counting constraint satisfaction problems ($\#$CSP) over Boolean variables into exactly three categories: (1) Polynomial-time tractable; (2) $\#$P-hard for general instances,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Jin-yi Cai , Zhiguo Fu

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the best approximation of a given matrix onto the intersection of linear equalities, inequalities and the doubly nonnegative cone (the cone of all positive semidefinite matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh