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A real polynomial $P(X_1,..., X_n)$ sign represents $f: A^n \to \{0,1\}$ if for every $(a_1, ..., a_n) \in A^n$, the sign of $P(a_1,...,a_n)$ equals $(-1)^{f(a_1,...,a_n)}$. Such sign representations are well-studied in computer science and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Saugata Basu , Nayantara Bhatnagar , Parikshit Gopalan , Richard J. Lipton

Matroids, particularly linear ones, have been a powerful tool in parameterized complexity for algorithms and kernelization. They have sped up or replaced dynamic programming. Delta-matroids generalize matroids by encapsulating structures…

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Zipf's law predicts a power-law relationship between word rank and frequency in language communication systems and has been widely reported in a variety of natural language processing applications. However, the emergence of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Bohdan Khomtchouk , Shyam Sudhakaran

Hypergraphs are widely adopted tools to examine systems with higher-order interactions. Despite recent advancements in methods for community detection in these systems, we still lack a theoretical analysis of their detectability limits.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

We study the problem of computing a conjunctive query q in parallel, using p of servers, on a large database. We consider algorithms with one round of communication, and study the complexity of the communication. We are especially…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Paul Beame , Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

In this note, we study the relation between the parity decision tree complexity of a boolean function $f$, denoted by $\mathrm{D}_{\oplus}(f)$, and the $k$-party number-in-hand multiparty communication complexity of the XOR functions…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Penghui Yao

Let R be a family of n axis-parallel rectangles with packing number p-1, meaning that among any p of the rectangles, there are two with a non-empty intersection. We show that the union complexity of R is at most O(n+p^2), and that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky

After a somewhat rocky start, geometry and topology have established a foothold in machine learning. Message passing, either on graphs or higher-order complexes, is one of the main drivers of geometric deep learning, and paradigms that were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bastian Rieck

High-dimensional embedding spaces can host many semantic directions with small mutual overlap. But small overlaps are not zero: when many directions are jointly active, their residual interference accumulates and limits what a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Karl Svozil

The complexity class DP is the class of all languages that are the intersection of a language in NP and a language in coNP. It was conjectured that recognizing a facet for the knapsack polytope is DP-complete. We provide a positive answer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Rui Chen , Haoran Zhu

The problem of team formation in a social network asks for a set of individuals who not only have the required skills to perform a task but who can also communicate effectively with each other. Existing work assumes that all links in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ioannis Kouvatis , Konstantinos Semertzidis , Maria Zerva , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

Recent breakthroughs in quantum query complexity have shown that any formula of size n can be evaluated with O(sqrt(n)log(n)/log log(n)) many quantum queries in the bounded-error setting [FGG08, ACRSZ07, RS08b, Rei09]. In particular, this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Troy Lee

We describe a slightly sub-exponential time algorithm for learning parity functions in the presence of random classification noise. This results in a polynomial-time algorithm for the case of parity functions that depend on only the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Avrim Blum , Adam Kalai , Hal Wasserman

An index coding problem is called unicast-uniprior when each receiver demands a unique subset of messages while knowing another unique subset of messages apriori as side-information. In this work, we give an algorithm to compute the minrank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Niranjana Ambadi

We show how to construct an overlay network of constant degree and diameter $O(\log n)$ in time $O(\log n)$ starting from an arbitrary weakly connected graph. We assume a synchronous communication network in which nodes can send messages to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Thorsten Götte , Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

A well studied problem in algebraic complexity theory is the determination of the complexity of problems relying on evaluations of bilinear maps. One measure of the complexity of a bilinear map (or 3-tensor) is the optimal number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Eimear Byrne , Giuseppe Cotardo

We study tensor networks as a model of arithmetic computation for evaluating multilinear maps. These capture any algorithm based on low border rank tensor decompositions, such as $O(n^{\omega+\epsilon})$ time matrix multiplication, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Per Austrin , Petteri Kaski , Kaie Kubjas

Graph augmentation is a fundamental and well-studied problem that arises in network optimization. We consider a new variant of this model motivated by reconfigurable communication networks. In this variant, we consider a given physical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Aleksander Figiel , Darya Melnyk , André Nichterlein , Arash Pourdamghani , Stefan Schmid

We develop a topological framework for proving lower bounds on sign-rank via $\mathbb{Z}_2$-equivariant topology, and use it to resolve the sign-rank of the Gap Hamming Distance problem up to lower-order terms. For every (partial) sign…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Florian Frick , Kaave Hosseini , Aliaksei Vasileuski

We explore what could make recognition of particular intersection-defined classes hard. We focus mainly on unit grid intersection graphs (UGIGs), i.e., intersection graphs of unit-length axis-aligned segments and grid intersection graphs…

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