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In the Colored Clustering problem, one is asked to cluster edge-colored (hyper-)graphs whose colors represent interaction types. More specifically, the goal is to select as many edges as possible without choosing two edges that share an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz , Rolf Niedermeier

Deep neural networks (NN) have achieved great success in many applications. However, why do deep neural networks obtain good generalization at an over-parameterization regime is still unclear. To better understand deep NN, we establish the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-02 Yueming Lyu , Ivor Tsang

Given an ordering of the vertices of a graph, the cost of covering an edge is the smaller number of its two ends. The minimum sum vertex cover problem asks for an ordering that minimizes the total cost of covering all edges. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yixin Cao , Ling Gai , Jingyi Liu , Jianxin Wang

We develop a technique that we call Conflict Packing in the context of kernelization, obtaining (and improving) several polynomial kernels for editing problems on dense instances. We apply this technique on several well-studied problems:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Christophe Paul , Anthony Perez , Stéphan Thomassé

In the Tree Deletion Set problem the input is a graph G together with an integer k. The objective is to determine whether there exists a set S of at most k vertices such that G-S is a tree. The problem is NP-complete and even NP-hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Ondrej Suchy

This paper presents the kernelized Taylor diagram, a graphical framework for visualizing similarities between data populations. The kernelized Taylor diagram builds on the widely used Taylor diagram, which is used to visualize similarities…

The Vertex Cover problem plays an essential role in the study of polynomial kernelization in parameterized complexity, i.e., the study of provable and efficient preprocessing for NP-hard problems. Motivated by the great variety of positive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Eva-Maria C. Hols , Stefan Kratsch , Astrid Pieterse

Covering problems are fundamental classical problems in optimization, computer science and complexity theory. Typically an input to these problems is a family of sets over a finite universe and the goal is to cover the elements of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-14 Omid Amini , Fedor V. Fomin , Saket Saurabh

The theoretical notions of graph classes with bounded expansion and that are nowhere dense are meant to capture structural sparsity of real world networks that can be used to design efficient algorithms. In the area of sparse graphs, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Wojciech Nadara

The use of kernels for nonlinear prediction is widespread in machine learning. They have been popularized in support vector machines and used in kernel ridge regression, amongst others. Kernel methods share three aspects. First, instead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-25 Patrick J. F. Groenen , Michael Greenacre

Kernel matrices are ubiquitous in computational mathematics, often arising from applications in machine learning and scientific computing. In two or three spatial or feature dimensions, such problems can be approximated efficiently by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Abraham Khan , Chao Chen , Vishwas Rao , Arvind K. Saibaba

Parameterized complexity theory was developed in the 1990s to enrich the complexity-theoretic analysis of problems that depend on a range of parameters. In this paper we establish a quantum equivalent of classical parameterized complexity…

In the last years, the success of kernel-based regularisation techniques in solving impulse response modelling tasks has revived the interest on linear system identification. In this work, an alternative perspective on the same problem is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Anna Marconato , Maarten Schoukens , Johan Schoukens

Conditional density estimation is a general framework for solving various problems in machine learning. Among existing methods, non-parametric and/or kernel-based methods are often difficult to use on large datasets, while methods based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-06 Hiroaki Sasaki , Aapo Hyvärinen

Generalization is a key challenge in machine learning, specifically in reasoning tasks, where models are expected to solve problems more complex than those encountered during training. Existing approaches typically train reasoning models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Alexandru Oarga , Yilun Du

Recent theoretical work has established connections between over-parametrized neural networks and linearized models governed by he Neural Tangent Kernels (NTKs). NTK theory leads to concrete convergence and generalization results, yet the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yu Bai , Jason D. Lee

This survey describes probabilistic algorithms for linear algebra computations, such as factorizing matrices and solving linear systems. It focuses on techniques that have a proven track record for real-world problem instances. The paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Joel Tropp

Quantum kernel method is one of the key approaches to quantum machine learning, which has the advantages that it does not require optimization and has theoretical simplicity. By virtue of these properties, several experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Norihito Shirai , Kenji Kubo , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

A polynomial Turing compression (PTC) for a parameterized problem $L$ is a polynomial time Turing machine that has access to an oracle for a problem $L'$ such that a polynomial in the input parameter bounds each query. Meanwhile, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Weidong Luo

The Treewidth-2 Vertex Deletion problem asks whether a set of at most $t$ vertices can be removed from a graph, such that the resulting graph has treewidth at most two. A graph has treewidth at most two if and only if it does not contain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jeroen L. G. Schols