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Learning the topology of higher-order networks from data is a fundamental challenge in many signal processing and machine learning applications. Simplicial complexes provide a principled framework for modeling multi-way interactions, yet…

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We establish or refute the optimality of inexact second-order methods for unconstrained nonconvex optimization from the point of view of worst-case evaluation complexity, improving and generalizing the results of Cartis, Gould and Toint…

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Possible forms of obstructed atomic limits in quasi-one-dimensional systems are studied using line group symmetry. This is accomplished by revisiting the standard theory with an emphasis on its group-theoretical background, synthesizing the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-30 Milan Damnjanovic , Ivanka Milosevic

This work addresses approximate nearest neighbor search applied in the domain of large-scale image retrieval. Within the group testing framework we propose an efficient off-line construction of the search structures. The linear-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Ahmet Iscen , Ondrej Chum

Robust model predictive control algorithms are essential for addressing unavoidable errors due to the uncertainty in predicting real-world systems. However, the formulation of such algorithms typically results in a trade-off between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Moritz Heinlein , Sankaranarayanan Subramanian , Sergio Lucia

We consider a step search method for continuous optimization under a stochastic setting where the function values and gradients are available only through inexact probabilistic zeroth- and first-order oracles. Unlike the stochastic gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Billy Jin , Katya Scheinberg , Miaolan Xie

Existential rules have been proposed for representing ontological knowledge, specifically in the context of Ontology- Based Data Access. Entailment with existential rules is undecidable. We focus in this paper on conditions that ensure the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Jean-François Baget , Fabien Garreau , Marie-Laure Mugnier , Swan Rocher

In this note we investigate the relationship between worst-case quantum query complexity and average-case classical query complexity. Specifically, we show that if a quantum computer can evaluate a total Boolean function f with bounded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Scott Aaronson

Beam search is a popular satisficing approach to heuristic search problems that allows one to trade increased computation time for lower solution cost by increasing the beam width parameter. We make two contributions to the study of beam…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Sofia Lemons , Carlos Linares López , Robert C. Holte , Wheeler Ruml

The linear complexity of a sequence $s$ is one of the measures of its predictability. It represents the smallest degree of a linear recursion which the sequence satisfies. There are several algorithms to find the linear complexity of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yeow Meng Chee , Johan Chrisnata , Tuvi Etzion , Han Mao Kiah

We look at continuum solutions in optimisation problems associated to linear inverse problems $y = Ax$ with non-negativity constraint $x \geq 0$. We focus on the case where the noise model leads to maximum likelihood estimation through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Camille Pouchol , Olivier Verdier

We study the extremal competitive ratio of Boolean function evaluation. We provide the first non-trivial lower and upper bounds for classes of Boolean functions which are not included in the class of monotone Boolean functions. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Ferdinando Cicalese , Travis Gagie , Eduardo Laber , Martin Milanic

Control synthesis under constraints is at the forefront of research on autonomous systems, in part due to its broad application from low-level control to high-level planning, where computing control inputs is typically cast as a constrained…

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Near-optimality robustness extends multilevel optimization with a limited deviation of a lower level from its optimal solution, anticipated by higher levels. We analyze the complexity of near-optimal robust multilevel problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Mathieu Besançon , Miguel F. Anjos , Luce Brotcorne

Cross-lingual document search is an information retrieval task in which the queries' language differs from the documents' language. In this paper, we study the instability of neural document search models and propose a novel end-to-end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jiapeng Liu , Xiao Zhang , Dan Goldwasser , Xiao Wang

We study trade-offs presented by local search algorithms in complex networks which are heterogeneous in edge weights and node degree. We show that search based on a network measure, local betweenness centrality (LBC), utilizes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hari P. Thadakamalla , Reka Albert , Soundar R. T. Kumara

We develop a new technique for proving distribution testing lower bounds for properties defined by inequalities involving the bin probabilities of the distribution in question. Using this technique we obtain new lower bounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuqian Cheng , Daniel M. Kane , Zhicheng Zheng

We describe and motivate a proposed new approach to lowerbounding the circuit complexity of boolean functions, based on a new formalization of "patterns" as elements of a special basis of the vector space of all truth table properties. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Bruce K. Smith

We consider the problem of finding a 1-planar drawing for a general graph, where a 1-planar drawing is a drawing in which each edge participates in at most one crossing. Since this problem is known to be NP-hard we investigate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Michael J. Bannister , Sergio Cabello , David Eppstein

We consider the gradient (or steepest) descent method with exact line search applied to a strongly convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient. We establish the exact worst-case rate of convergence of this scheme, and show that this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Etienne de Klerk , François Glineur , Adrien B. Taylor