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In this work we advance the understanding of the fundamental limits of computation for Binary Polynomial Optimization (BPO), which is the problem of maximizing a given polynomial function over all binary points. In our main result we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alberto Del Pia , Silvia Di Gregorio

The starting point of our work is a decade-old open question concerning the subexponential parameterized complexity of \textsc{2-Layer Crossing Minimization}. In this problem, the input is an $n$-vertex graph $G$ whose vertices are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

The $2 \rightarrow q$ norm of a matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d}$ is defined as $\lVert X \rVert_{2 \rightarrow q} = \sup_{\lVert v \rVert_2 = 1} \lVert Xv \rVert_q$. We give polynomial-time multiplicative approximation algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Samuel B. Hopkins , Stefan Tiegel

The All-Pairs Max-Flow problem has gained significant popularity in the last two decades, and many results are known regarding its fine-grained complexity. Despite this, wide gaps remain in our understanding of the time complexity for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ohad Trabelsi

In recent years, several powerful techniques have been developed to design {\em randomized} polynomial-space parameterized algorithms. In this paper, we introduce an enhancement of color coding to design deterministic polynomial-space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Gregory Gutin , Felix Reidl , Magnus Wahlström , Meirav Zehavi

The weighted $k$-server is a variant of the $k$-server problem, where the cost of moving a server is the server's weight times the distance through which it moves. The problem is famous for its intriguing properties and for evading standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Adithya Bijoy , Ankit Mondal , Ashish Chiplunkar

We show that there is no $2^{o(k^2)} n^{O(1)}$ time algorithm for Independent Set on $n$-vertex graphs with rank-width $k$, unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) fails. Our lower bound matches the $2^{O(k^2)} n^{O(1)}$ time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Tuukka Korhonen , Jesper Nederlof

The problem of exactly differentiating a signal with bounded second derivative is considered. A class of differentiators is proposed, which converge to the derivative of such a signal within a fixed, i.e., a finite and uniformly bounded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Richard Seeber , Hernan Haimovich , Martin Horn , Leonid Fridman , Hernán De Battista

The k-means algorithm is a well-known method for partitioning n points that lie in the d-dimensional space into k clusters. Its main features are simplicity and speed in practice. Theoretically, however, the best known upper bound on its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-12-03 Andrea Vattani

For every constant $d$, we design a subexponential time deterministic algorithm that takes as input a multivariate polynomial $f$ given as a constant depth algebraic circuit over the field of rational numbers, and outputs all irreducible…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Mrinal Kumar , Varun Ramanathan , Ramprasad Saptharishi

We consider chance-constrained binary knapsack problems, where the weights of items are independent random variables with the means and standard deviations known. The chance constraint can be reformulated as a second-order cone constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Jaehyeon Ryu , Sungsoo Park

The present paper deals with the discrete inverse problem of reconstructing binary matrices from their row and column sums under additional constraints on the number and pattern of entries in specified minors. While the classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann

We investigate the high-dimensional regression problem using adjacency matrices of unbalanced expander graphs. In this frame, we prove that the $\ell_{2}$-prediction error and the $\ell_{1}$-risk of the lasso and the Dantzig selector are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Yohann de Castro

There have been several algorithms designed to optimise matrix multiplication. From schoolbook method with complexity $O(n^3)$ to advanced tensor-based tools with time complexity $O(n^{2.3728639})$ (lowest possible bound achieved), a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Shrohan Mohapatra

We present new deterministic algorithms for several cases of the maximum rank matrix completion problem (for short matrix completion), i.e. the problem of assigning values to the variables in a given symbolic matrix as to maximize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Gábor Ivanyos , Marek Karpinski , Nitin Saxena

Several practical applications of reinforcement learning involve an agent learning from past data without the possibility of further exploration. Often these applications require us to 1) identify a near optimal policy or to 2) estimate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Andrea Zanette

We provide new high-accuracy randomized algorithms for solving linear systems and regression problems that are well-conditioned except for $k$ large singular values. For solving such $d \times d$ positive definite system our algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Michał Dereziński , Aaron Sidford

We give a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for integer linear programs defined by integer coefficient matrices whose subdeterminants are bounded by a constant and that contain at most two nonzero entries in each row. The core of our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Samuel Fiorini , Gwenaël Joret , Stefan Weltge , Yelena Yuditsky

In this paper, we develop new tools and connections for exponential time approximation. In this setting, we are given a problem instance and a parameter $\alpha>1$, and the goal is to design an $\alpha$-approximation algorithm with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Nikhil Bansal , Parinya Chalermsook , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai , Jesper Nederlof

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