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We propose a novel technique for speeding up the self-learning Monte Carlo method applied to the single-site impurity model. For the case where the effective Hamiltonian is expressed by polynomial functions of differences of imaginary-time…

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In this paper, we study permutations $\pi \in S_n$ with exactly $m$ transpositions. In particular, we are interested in the expected value of $\pi(1)$ when such permutations are chosen uniformly at random. When $n$ is even, this expected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Peter Kagey

Distance covariance and distance correlation have been widely adopted in measuring dependence of a pair of random variables or random vectors. If the computation of distance covariance and distance correlation is implemented directly…

Computation · Statistics 2014-10-07 Xiaoming Huo , Gabor J. Szekely

The Fr\'echet distance is a commonly used distance measure for curves. Computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves of $n$ vertices takes roughly quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds suggest that approximating to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We study dynamic $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate rounding of fractional matchings -- a key ingredient in numerous breakthroughs in the dynamic graph algorithms literature. Our first contribution is a surprisingly simple deterministic rounding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Aaron Sidford , David Wajc

This paper is concerned with the fast computation of Fourier integral operators of the general form $\int_{\R^d} e^{2\pi\i \Phi(x,k)} f(k) d k$, where $k$ is a frequency variable, $\Phi(x,k)$ is a phase function obeying a standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-05 Emmanuel Candes , Laurent Demanet , Lexing Ying

Using a self-replicating method, we generalize with a free parameter some Borwein algorithms for the number $\pi$. This generalization includes values of the Gamma function like $\Gamma(1/3)$, $\Gamma(1/4)$ and of course…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Jesús Guillera

The fidelity estimation between two quantum states is crucial for quantum computation and information science. However, an efficacious method for this, especially for mixed states and higher-dimensional density matrices, remains elusive.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Anumita Mukhopadhyay , Shibdas Roy , Arun Kumar Pati

A new scaling and recovering algorithm is proposed for simultaneously computing the matrix $\varphi$-functions that arise in exponential integrator methods for the numerical solution of certain first-order systems of ordinary differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Awad H. Al-Mohy , Xiaobo Liu

The previously fastest algorithm for deciding the existence of an independent cut had a runtime of $\mathcal{O}^*(1.4423^n)$, where $n$ is the order of the input graph. We improve this to $\mathcal{O}^*(1.4143^n)$. In fact, we prove a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Vsevolod Chernyshev , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Liliia Redina

Given some binary matrix $M$, suppose we are presented with the collection of its rows and columns in independent arbitrary orderings. From this information, are we able to recover the unique original orderings and matrix? We present an…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Caelan Atamanchuk , Luc Devroye , Massimo Vicenzo

Integer programming (IP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is widely used to represent a diverse set of real-world problems spanning multiple fields, such as finance, engineering, logistics, and operations research. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

The lattice $A_n^*$ is an important lattice because of its covering properties in low dimensions. Clarkson \cite{Clarkson1999:Anstar} described an algorithm to compute the nearest lattice point in $A_n^*$ that requires $O(n\log{n})$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Robby G. McKilliam , I. Vaughan L. Clarkson , Barry G. Quinn

We revisit the Subset Sum problem over the finite cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_m$ for some given integer $m$. A series of recent works has provided near-optimal algorithms for this problem under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis. Koiliaris…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Kyriakos Axiotis , Arturs Backurs , Karl Bringmann , Ce Jin , Vasileios Nakos , Christos Tzamos , Hongxun Wu

In this paper, we investigate the trade-off between convergence rate and computational cost when minimizing a composite functional with proximal-gradient methods, which are popular optimisation tools in machine learning. We consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Pierre Machart , Sandrine Anthoine , Luca Baldassarre

In this paper, we propose a novel optimizer state compression algorithm, namely $\pi$-Quant, which leverages the properties of irrational numbers (e.g., $\pi$) for memory-efficient training. The core idea is based on our mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhen Tian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

We study the problem of $2$-dimensional orthogonal range counting with additive error. Given a set $P$ of $n$ points drawn from an $n\times n$ grid and an error parameter $\eps$, the goal is to build a data structure, such that for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zhewei Wei , Ke Yi

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We present an efficient $O (n + 1/\varepsilon^{4.5})$-time algorithm for computing a $(1+\varepsilon$)-approximation of the minimum-volume bounding box of $n$ points in $\Re^3$. We also present a simpler…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Gill Barequet , Sariel Har-Peled

Consider a metric space $(P,dist)$ with $N$ points whose doubling dimension is a constant. We present a simple, randomized, and recursive algorithm that computes, in $O(N \log N)$ expected time, the closest-pair distance in $P$. To generate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Anil Maheshwari , Wolfgang Mulzer , Michiel Smid

We study dynamic $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for the all-pairs shortest paths problem in unweighted undirected $n$-node $m$-edge graphs under edge deletions. The fastest algorithm for this problem is a randomized algorithm with…

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