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The Algorithm Selection Problem is concerned with selecting the best algorithm to solve a given problem on a case-by-case basis. It has become especially relevant in the last decade, as researchers are increasingly investigating how to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Lars Kotthoff

We study the approximation of compact linear operators defined over certain weighted tensor product Hilbert spaces. The information complexity is defined as the minimal number of arbitrary linear functionals which is needed to obtain an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Peter Kritzer , Friedrich Pillichshammer , Henryk Woźniakowski

We study the average case complexity of a linear multivariate problem $(\lmp)$ defined on functions of $d$ variables. We consider two classes of information. The first $\lstd$ consists of function values and the second $\lall$ of all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Henryk Woźniakowski

We study output-sensitive algorithms and complexity for multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. In this computational complexity framework, an algorithm for a general enumeration problem is regarded efficient if it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Fritz Bökler , Matthias Ehrgott , Christopher Morris , Petra Mutzel

Avoiding overfitting is a central challenge in machine learning, yet many large neural networks readily achieve zero training loss. This puzzling contradiction necessitates new approaches to the study of overfitting. Here we quantify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn , David J. Schwab

Constrained optimization problems appear in a wide variety of challenging real-world problems, where constraints often capture the physics of the underlying system. Classic methods for solving these problems rely on iterative algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Meiyi Li , Soheil Kolouri , Javad Mohammadi

While Shannon's mutual information has widespread applications in many disciplines, for practical applications it is often difficult to calculate its value accurately for high-dimensional variables because of the curse of dimensionality.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Wentao Huang , Kechen Zhang

Let $X$ be a finite set in $Z^d$. We consider the problem of optimizing linear function $f(x) = c^T x$ on $X$, where $c\in Z^d$ is an input vector. We call it a problem $X$. A problem $X$ is related with linear program $\max\limits_{x \in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Aleksandr Maksimenko

The main purpose of percolation theory is to model phase transitions in a variety of random systems, which is highly valuable in fields related to materials physics, biology, or otherwise unrelated areas like oil extraction or even quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Daniel García Solla

Optimization is an essential component for solving problems in wide-ranging fields. Ideally, the objective function should be designed such that the solution is unique and the optimization problem can be solved stably. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Takayuki Osa

Model complexity is a fundamental problem in deep learning. In this paper we conduct a systematic overview of the latest studies on model complexity in deep learning. Model complexity of deep learning can be categorized into expressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xia Hu , Lingyang Chu , Jian Pei , Weiqing Liu , Jiang Bian

In information theory, some optimization problems result in convex optimization problems on strictly convex functionals of probability densities. In this note, we study these problems and show conditions of minimizers and the uniqueness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Tomohiro Nishiyama

Complexity theory provides a wealth of complexity classes for analyzing the complexity of decision and counting problems. Despite the practical relevance of enumeration problems, the tools provided by complexity theory for this important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Nadia Creignou , Markus Kröll , Reinhard Pichler , Sebastian Skritek , Heribert Vollmer

In nearly every discipline, scientific computations are limited by the cost and speed of computation. For example, the best-known exact algorithms for the canonical Traveling Salesman Problem would take centuries to run on an instance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jeffery Li , Jayson Lynch , Liva Olina , Cecilia Chen , Andrew Lucas , Neil Thompson

We consider information retrieval when the data, for instance multimedia, is coputationally expensive to fetch. Our approach uses "information filters" to considerably narrow the universe of possiblities before retrieval. We are especially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Neil C. Rowe

While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the information distance between two individual objects, for example, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Charles H. Bennett , Peter Gacs , Ming Li , Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Wojciech H. Zurek

Our understanding of complex systems rests on our ability to characterise how they perform distributed computation and integrate information. Advances in information theory have introduced several quantities to describe complex information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alberto Liardi , George Blackburne , Hardik Rajpal , Fernando E. Rosas , Pedro A. M. Mediano

Relative to the large literature on upper bounds on complexity of convex optimization, lesser attention has been paid to the fundamental hardness of these problems. Given the extensive use of convex optimization in machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-22 Alekh Agarwal , Peter L. Bartlett , Pradeep Ravikumar , Martin J. Wainwright

An approach to the classification problem of machine learning, based on building local classification rules, is developed. The local rules are considered as projections of the global classification rules to the event we want to classify. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vladislav Malyshkin , Ray Bakhramov , Andrey Gorodetsky

We investigate approximation algorithms for several fundamental optimization problems on geometric packing. The geometric objects considered are very generic, namely $d$-dimensional convex fat objects. Our main contribution is a versatile…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vítor Gomes Chagas , Elisa Dell'Arriva , Flávio Keidi Miyazawa