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The area of computing with uncertainty considers problems where some information about the input elements is uncertain, but can be obtained using queries. For example, instead of the weight of an element, we may be given an interval that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Murilo S. de Lima

The Maximum Balanced Biclique Problem (MBBP) is a prominent model with numerous applications. Yet, the problem is NP-hard and thus computationally challenging. We propose novel ideas for designing effective exact algorithms for MBBP.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Yi Zhou , André Rossi , Jin-Kao Hao

Given a sphere of any radius $r$ in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space, we study the coverings of this sphere with solid spheres of radius one. Our goal is to design a covering of the lowest covering density, which defines the average…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Ilya Dumer

This paper details an approach to linearise differentiable but non-convex collision avoidance constraints tailored to convex shapes. It revisits introducing differential collision avoidance constraints for convex objects into an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Dries Dirckx , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

The goal in the stochastic vertex cover problem is to obtain an approximately minimum vertex cover for a graph $G^\star$ that is realized by sampling each edge independently with some probability $p\in (0, 1]$ in a base graph $G = (V, E)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jan van den Brand , Inge Li Gørtz , Chirag Pabbaraju , Debmalya Panigrahi , Clifford Stein , Miltiadis Stouras , Ola Svensson , Ali Vakilian

We consider the problem of learning uncertainty regions for parameter estimation problems. The regions are ellipsoids that minimize the average volumes subject to a prescribed coverage probability. As expected, under the assumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Itai Alon , David Arnon , Ami Wiesel

We study the time complexity of the discrete $k$-center problem and related (exact) geometric set cover problems when $k$ or the size of the cover is small. We obtain a plethora of new results: - We give the first subquadratic algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Timothy M. Chan , Qizheng He , Yuancheng Yu

We bound the number of incidences between points and spheres in finite vector spaces by bounding the sum of the number of points in the pairwise intersections of the spheres. We obtain new incidence bounds that are interesting when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Doowon Koh , Ben Lund , Chuandong Xu , Semin Yoo

Existing methods for rotation estimation between two spherical ($\mathbb{S}^2$) patterns typically rely on spherical cross-correlation maximization between two spherical function. However, these approaches exhibit computational complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anik Sarker , Alan T. Asbeck

We study efficient optimization of the Hamiltonians of multi-species spherical spin glasses. Our results characterize the maximum value attained by algorithms that are suitably Lipschitz with respect to the disorder through a variational…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Brice Huang , Mark Sellke

The declustering problem is to allocate given data on parallel working storage devices in such a manner that typical requests find their data evenly distributed on the devices. Using deep results from discrepancy theory, we improve previous…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Benjamin Doerr , Nils Hebbinghaus , Sören Werth

We investigate the implementation of a new stochastic Kuramoto-Vicsek-type model for global optimization of nonconvex functions on the sphere. This model belongs to the class of Consensus-Based Optimization. In fact, particles move on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Massimo Fornasier , Hui Huang , Lorenzo Pareschi , Philippe Sünnen

We present a framework for the optimal filtering of spherical signals contaminated by realizations of an additive, zero-mean, uncorrelated and anisotropic noise process on the sphere. Filtering is performed in the wavelet domain given by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Adeem Aslam , Zubair Khalid , Jason D. McEwen

We obtain new topological information about the local structure of collapsing under a lower sectional curvature bound. As an application we prove a new sphere theorem and obtain a partial result towards the conjecture that not every…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vitali Kapovitch

In this work we investigate the following isoperimetric problem: to find the regions of prescribed volume with minimal boundary area between two parallel horospheres in hyperbolic 3-space (the area of the part of the boundary contained in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-10 Rosa Chaves , Renato Pedrosa , Marcio Silva

First order methods endowed with global convergence guarantees operate using global lower bounds on the objective. The tightening of the bounds has been shown to increase both the theoretical guarantees and the practical performance. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Mihai I. Florea , Yurii Nesterov

Aligning partially overlapping point sets where there is no prior information about the value of the transformation is a challenging problem in computer vision. To achieve this goal, we first reduce the objective of the robust point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Wei Lian , WangMeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

The aim of this essay is to better understand the Grasshopper Problem on the surface of the unit sphere. The problem is motivated by analysing Bell inequalities, but can be formulated as a geometric puzzle as follows. Given a white sphere…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Boris van Breugel

One of the main limitations of variational quantum algorithms is the classical optimization of the highly dimensional non-convex variational parameter landscape. To simplify this optimization, we can reduce the search space using problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Isak Lyngfelt , Laura García-Álvarez

Sphere decoding (SD) of polar codes is an efficient method to achieve the error performance of maximum likelihood (ML) decoding. But the complexity of the conventional sphere decoder is still high, where the candidates in a target sphere…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Kai Niu , Kai Chen , Jiaru Lin