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Probabilistic graphical models are a key tool in machine learning applications. Computing the partition function, i.e., normalizing constant, is a fundamental task of statistical inference but it is generally computationally intractable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-29 Sungsoo Ahn , Michael Chertkov , Adrian Weller , Jinwoo Shin

Optimizing a high-dimensional non-convex function is, in general, computationally hard and many problems of this type are hard to solve even approximately. Complexity theory characterizes the optimal approximation ratios achievable in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-25 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari

The number partition problem is a well-known problem, which is one of 21 Karp's NP-complete problems \cite{karp}. The partition function is a boolean function that is equivalent to the number partition problem with number range restricted.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-25 Chuyu Xiong

Typical-case computation complexity is a research topic at the boundary of computer science, applied mathematics, and statistical physics. In the last twenty years the replica-symmetry-breaking mean field theory of spin glasses and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-06-17 Jin-Hua Zhao , Hai-Jun Zhou

We investigate the computational difficulty of approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model on a regular matroid. Jerrum and Sinclair have shown that there is a fully polynomial randomised approximation scheme…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

In the number partitioning problem (NPP) one aims to partition a given set of $N$ real numbers into two subsets with approximately equal sum. The NPP is a well-studied optimization problem and is famous for possessing a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Rushil Mallarapu , Mark Sellke

In this paper we investigate the intrinsic sequential time complexity of universal elimination procedures for arbitrary continuous data structures encoding input and output objects of elimination theory (i.e. polynomial equation systems)…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Castro , Marc Giusti , Joos Heintz , Guillermo Matera , Luis Miguel Pardo

We consider a refinement of the partition function of graph homomorphisms and present a quasi-polynomial algorithm to compute it in a certain domain. As a corollary, we obtain quasi-polynomial algorithms for computing partition functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Alexander Barvinok , Pablo Soberón

We study the computational complexity of approximately computing the partition function of a spin system. Techniques based on standard counting-to-sampling reductions yield $\tilde{O}(n^2)$-time algorithms, where $n$ is the size of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiaoyu Chen , Zongchen Chen , Kuikui Liu , Xinyuan Zhang

We consider the problem of algorithmically sampling from the Gibbs measure of a mixed $p$-spin spherical spin glass. We give a polynomial-time algorithm that samples from the Gibbs measure up to vanishing total variation error, for any…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Brice Huang , Andrea Montanari , Huy Tuan Pham

We construct the first complete exact numerical solution of a mean field quantum spin glass model, the transverse field Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, by implementing a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method in the presence of full…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-08 Annamária Kiss , Gergely Zaránd , Izabella Lovas

We prove that, unless P=NP, there is no polynomial-time algorithm to approximate within some multiplicative constant the average size of an independent set in graphs of maximum degree 6. This is a special case of a more general result for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Andreas Galanis , Daniel Stefankovic , Eric Vigoda

In our previous work there was some indication that Partition Sort could be having a more robust average case O(nlogn) complexity than the popular Quick Sort. In our first study in this paper, we reconfirm this through computer experiments…

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We discuss a variant of multitask n-vehicle exploration problem. Instead of requiring an optimal permutation of vehicles in every group, the new problem asks all vehicles in a group to arrive at a same destination. It can also be viewed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-17 Yangyang Xu , Jinchuan Cui

We present a structural resolution to the exact evaluation of the partition function $p_k(n)$, systematically overcoming the limitations of traditional recursive and asymptotic methods. By framing the partition polytope $\mathcal{P}_{n,k}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Antonio Bonelli

The computational complexity of the partition, 0-1 subset sum, unbounded subset sum, 0-1 knapsack and unbounded knapsack problems and their multiple variants were studied in numerous papers in the past where all the weights and profits were…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Dominik Wojtczak

It is a folklore belief in the theory of spin glasses and disordered systems that out-of-equilibrium dynamics fail to find stable local optima exhibiting e.g. local strict convexity on physical time-scales. In the context of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-02 Brice Huang , Mark Sellke

We consider an invariant random matrix model where the standard Gaussian potential is distorted by an additional single pole of order $m$. We compute the average or macroscopic spectral density in the limit of large matrix size, solving the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Gernot Akemann , Dario Villamaina , Pierpaolo Vivo

Spin-glass systems are universal models for representing many-body phenomena in statistical physics and computer science. High quality solutions of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems can be encoded into low energy states of…

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