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A graph spanner is a fundamental graph structure that faithfully preserves the pairwise distances in the input graph up to a small multiplicative stretch. The common objective in the computation of spanners is to achieve the best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Merav Parter , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian , Anak Yodpinyanee

We study *non-adaptive* Local Computation Algorithms (LCA). A reduction of Parnas and Ron (TCS'07) turns any distributed algorithm into a non-adaptive LCA. Plugging known distributed algorithms, this leads to non-adaptive LCAs for constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Alma Ghafari , Madhu Sudan

We present and analyze a simple, two-step algorithm to approximate the optimal solution of the sparse PCA problem. Our approach first solves a L1 penalized version of the NP-hard sparse PCA optimization problem and then uses a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Kimon Fountoulakis , Abhisek Kundu , Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Petros Drineas

A {\em local graph partitioning algorithm} finds a set of vertices with small conductance (i.e. a sparse cut) by adaptively exploring part of a large graph $G$, starting from a specified vertex. For the algorithm to be local, its complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Reid Andersen , Yuval Peres

Simplicial complexes (SCs) have become a popular abstraction for analyzing complex data using tools from topological data analysis or topological signal processing. However, the analysis of many real-world datasets often leads to dense SCs,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-07 Anton Savostianov , Michael T. Schaub , Nicola Guglielmi , Francesco Tudisco

A spanner of a graph is a subgraph that preserves lengths of shortest paths up to a multiplicative distortion. For every $k$, a spanner with size $O(n^{1+1/k})$ and stretch $(2k+1)$ can be constructed by a simple centralized greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Rubi Arviv , Lily Chung , Reut Levi , Edward Pyne

The sparse coding algorithm has served as a model for early processing in mammalian vision. It has been assumed that the brain uses sparse coding to exploit statistical properties of the sensory stream. We hypothesize that sparse coding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Gerrit A. Ecke , Harald M. Papp , Hanspeter A. Mallot

We introduce a generic framework for solving linear programs (LPs) with many constraints $(n \gg d)$ via adaptive sparsification. Our approach provides a principled generalization of the techniques of [Assadi '23] from matching problems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Étienne Objois , Adrian Vladu

In this paper, a fast algorithm for overcomplete sparse decomposition, called SL0, is proposed. The algorithm is essentially a method for obtaining sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations, and its applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Hossein Mohimani , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Christian Jutten

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique in machine learning and multivariate statistics. To improve the interpretability of PCA, various approaches to obtain sparse principal direction loadings have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Agniva Chowdhury , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Given a collection S of subsets of some set U, and M a subset of U, the set cover problem is to find the smallest subcollection C of S such that M is a subset of the union of the sets in C. While the general problem is NP-hard to solve,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Kasturi Varadarajan

We study the design of local algorithms for massive graphs. A local algorithm is one that finds a solution containing or near a given vertex without looking at the whole graph. We present a local clustering algorithm. Our algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We initiate the study of Local Computation Algorithms on average case inputs. In the Local Computation Algorithm (LCA) model, we are given probe access to a huge graph, and asked to answer membership queries about some combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Ruidi Cao , Cassandra Marcussen , Edward Pyne , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Asaf Shapira , Shlomo Tauber

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the scalability and parallelization of local search algorithms for the Satisfiability problem. We propose a framework to estimate the parallel performance of a given algorithm by analyzing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Alejandro Arbelaez , Charlotte Truchet , Philippe Codognet

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) is a fundamental technique for dimensionality reduction, and is NP-hard. In this paper, we introduce a randomized approximation algorithm for SPCA, which is based on the basic SDP relaxation. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Alberto Del Pia , Dekun Zhou

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model is an emerging model which distills core aspects of distributed and parallel computation. It has been developed as a tool to solve (typically graph) problems in systems where the input is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Merav Parter

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) is an important technique for high-dimensional data analysis, improving interpretability by imposing sparsity on principal components. However, existing methods often fail to simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Difei Cheng , Qiao Hu

Researchers are exploring novel computational paradigms such as sparse coding and neuromorphic computing to bridge the efficiency gap between the human brain and conventional computers in complex tasks. A key area of focus is neuromorphic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Soufiyan Bahadi , Eric Plourde , Jean Rouat

We consider the task of designing Local Computation Algorithms (LCA) for applications of the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL). LCA is a class of sublinear algorithms proposed by Rubinfeld et al.~\cite{Ronitt} that have received a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dimitris Achlioptas , Themis Gouleakis , Fotis Iliopoulos

Sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) has emerged as a powerful technique for modern data analysis, providing improved interpretation of low-rank structures by identifying localized spatial structures in the data and disambiguating…