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In subset selection we search for the best linear predictor that involves a small subset of variables. From a computational complexity viewpoint, subset selection is NP-hard and few classes are known to be solvable in polynomial time. Using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Alberto Del Pia , Santanu S. Dey , Robert Weismantel

An $s$-sparse polynomial has at most $s$ monomials with nonzero coefficients. The Equivalence Testing problem for sparse polynomials (ETsparse) asks to decide if a given polynomial $f$ is equivalent to (i.e., in the orbit of) some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Omkar Baraskar , Agrim Dewan , Chandan Saha , Pulkit Sinha

We give a 2-approximation algorithm for Non-Uniform Sparsest Cut that runs in time $n^{O(k)}$, where $k$ is the treewidth of the graph. This improves on the previous $2^{2^k}$-approximation in time $\poly(n) 2^{O(k)}$ due to Chlamt\'a\v{c}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Anupam Gupta , Kunal Talwar , David Witmer

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of $\mathsf{BPTIME}$: proving hierarchy theorems and showing the existence of complete problems. Our main contributions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Rahul Santhanam

We consider sparse variants of the classical Learning Parities with random Noise (LPN) problem. Our main contribution is a new algorithmic framework that provides learning algorithms against low-noise for both Learning Sparse Parities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xue Chen , Wenxuan Shu , Zhaienhe Zhou

We consider the problem of finding a sparse multiple of a polynomial. Given f in F[x] of degree d over a field F, and a desired sparsity t, our goal is to determine if there exists a multiple h in F[x] of f such that h has at most t…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Mark Giesbrecht , Daniel S. Roche , Hrushikesh Tilak

In the number partitioning problem (NPP) one aims to partition a given set of $N$ real numbers into two subsets with approximately equal sum. The NPP is a well-studied optimization problem and is famous for possessing a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Rushil Mallarapu , Mark Sellke

The study of sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has become widespread to compress and accelerate models in environments with limited resources. By constraining N consecutive weights along the output channel to be group-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jingyang Xiang , Siqi Li , Jun Chen , Shipeng Bai , Yukai Ma , Guang Dai , Yong Liu

A subset of Q^n is called semilinear (or piecewise linear) if it is Boolean combination of linear half-spaces. We study the computational complexity of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) over the rationals when all the constraints…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino

We consider the online sparse linear regression problem, which is the problem of sequentially making predictions observing only a limited number of features in each round, to minimize regret with respect to the best sparse linear regressor,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Dean Foster , Satyen Kale , Howard Karloff

This work investigates an efficient solution to two fundamental problems in topology optimization of frame structures. The first one involves minimizing structural compliance under linear-elastic equilibrium and weight constraint, while the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Marouan Handa , Marek Tyburec , Michal Kočvara

In this paper, we give a faster width-dependent algorithm for mixed packing-covering LPs. Mixed packing-covering LPs are fundamental to combinatorial optimization in computer science and operations research. Our algorithm finds a $1+\eps$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Digvijay Boob , Saurabh Sawlani , Di Wang

Fine-grained reductions have established equivalences between many core problems with $\tilde{O}(n^3)$-time algorithms on $n$-node weighted graphs, such as Shortest Cycle, All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP), Radius, Replacement Paths, Second…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Andrea Lincoln , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Ryan Williams

We extend the well known bottleneck paths problem in two directions for directed unweighted (unit edge cost) graphs with positive real edge capacities. Firstly we narrow the problem domain and compute the bottleneck of the entire network in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

This paper studies finite-sample set-membership identification for discrete-time bilinear systems under bounded symmetric log-concave disturbances. Compared with existing finite-sample results for linear systems and related analyses under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hongyu Yi , Chenbei Lu , Jing Yu

We consider the bipartite unconstrained 0-1 quadratic programming problem (BQP01) which is a generalization of the well studied unconstrained 0-1 quadratic programming problem (QP01). BQP01 has numerous applications and the problem is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Abraham P. Punnen , Piyashat Sripratak , Daniel Karapetyan

Many NP-hard problems, such as Dominating Set, are FPT parameterized by clique-width. For graphs of clique-width $k$ given with a $k$-expression, Dominating Set can be solved in $4^k n^{O(1)}$ time. However, no FPT algorithm is known for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Sang-il Oum , Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Martin Vatshelle

In the Connected Vertex Cover problem we are given an undirected graph G together with an integer k and we are to find a subset of vertices X of size at most k, such that X contains at least one end-point of each edge and moreover X induces…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Marek Cygan

In this paper, we propose two new interpolation algorithms for sparse multivariate polynomials represented by a straight-line program(SLP). Both of our algorithms work over any finite fields $F_q$ with large characteristic. The first one is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Qiao-Long Huang

An instance $I$ of the Stable Matching Problem (SMP) is given by a bipartite graph with a preference list of neighbors for every vertex. A swap in $I$ is the exchange of two consecutive vertices in a preference list. A swap can be viewed as…

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