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We reexamine the classical subset sum problem: given a set $X$ of $n$ positive integers and a number $t$, decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ that sums to $t$; or more generally, compute the set $\mbox{out}$ of all numbers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Timothy M. Chan

The Subset Sum problem, which asks whether a set of $n$ integers has a subset summing to a target $t$, is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization. The classical meet-in-the-middle (MIM) algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jesus Salas

We give a new general approach for designing exact exponential-time algorithms for subset problems. In a subset problem the input implicitly describes a family of sets over a universe of size n and the task is to determine whether the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Serge Gaspers , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

Given an undirected graph $G$, the Densest $k$-subgraph problem (DkS) asks to compute a set $S \subset V$ of cardinality $\left\lvert S\right\rvert \leq k$ such that the weight of edges inside $S$ is maximized. This is a fundamental NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yash Khanna , Anand Louis

In the classical Subset Sum problem we are given a set $X$ and a target $t$, and the task is to decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ which sums to $t$. A recent line of research has resulted in $\tilde{O}(t)$-time algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

Subset-Sum and k-SAT are two of the most extensively studied problems in computer science, and conjectures about their hardness are among the cornerstones of fine-grained complexity. One of the most intriguing open problems in this area is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann , Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

Given a multiset $S$ of $n$ positive integers and a target integer $t$, the Subset Sum problem asks to determine whether there exists a subset of $S$ that sums up to $t$. The current best deterministic algorithm, by Koiliaris and Xu…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Ce Jin , Hongxun Wu

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

We reveal a complexity chasm, separating the trinomial and tetranomial cases, for solving univariate sparse polynomial equations over certain local fields. First, for any fixed field $K\in\{\mathbb{Q}_2,\mathbb{Q}_3,\mathbb{Q}_5,\ldots\}$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-08 J. Maurice Rojas , Yuyu Zhu

The densest $k$-subgraph problem is the problem of finding a $k$-vertex subgraph of a graph with the maximum number of edges. In order to solve large instances of the densest $k$-subgraph problem, we introduce two algorithms that are based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Renata Sotirov

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph minimizing the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already for bipartite graphs when the functions are convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Gabriel Deza , Shmuel Onn

Given two $k$-graphs $H$ and $F$, a perfect $F$-packing in $H$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $F$ in $H$ which together cover all the vertices in $H$. In the case when $F$ is a single edge, a perfect $F$-packing is simply a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Jie Han , Andrew Treglown

We study several variants of decomposing a symmetric matrix into a sum of a low-rank positive semidefinite matrix and a diagonal matrix. Such decompositions have applications in factor analysis and they have been studied for many decades.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Levent Tunçel , Stephen A. Vavasis , Jingye Xu

In this paper, we propose two new methods for solving Set Constraint Problems, as well as a potential polynomial solution for NP-Complete problems using quantum computation. While current methods of solving Set Constraint Problems focus on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Neema Rustin Badihian

The \emph{top-$k$-sum} operator computes the sum of the largest $k$ components of a given vector. The Euclidean projection onto the top-$k$-sum sublevel set serves as a crucial subroutine in iterative methods to solve composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Jake Roth , Ying Cui

The polynomial-time computability of the permanent over fields of characteristic 3 for k-semi-unitary matrices (i.e. square matrices such that the differences of their Gram matrices and the corresponding identity matrices are of rank k) in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Anna Knezevic , Greg Cohen , Marina Domanskaya

Minkowski sums are of theoretical interest and have applications in fields related to industrial backgrounds. In this paper we focus on the specific case of summing polytopes as we want to solve the tolerance analysis problem described in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Vincent Delos , Denis Teissandier

The subset sum problem is one of the simplest and most fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. We consider two extensions of this problem: The subset sum problem with digraph constraint (SSG) and subset sum problem with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

In this paper we obtain an algorithm towards solving the two-dimensional moment problem. This algorithm gives the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the moment problem. It is shown that all solutions of the moment…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Sergey M. Zagorodnyuk

This paper presents a new combinatorial optimisation task, the Subset Sum Matching Problem (SSMP), which is an abstraction of common financial applications such as trades reconciliation. We present three algorithms, two suboptimal and one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yufei Wu , Manuel R. Torres , Parisa Zehtabi , Alberto Pozanco Lancho , Michael Cashmore , Daniel Borrajo , Manuela Veloso