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The $k$-Means clustering problem on $n$ points is NP-Hard for any dimension $d\ge 2$, however, for the 1D case there exists exact polynomial time algorithms. Previous literature reported an $O(kn^2)$ time dynamic programming algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen , Alexander Mathiasen , Jesper Sindahl Nielsen , Stefan Schneider , Mingzhou Song

Estimating the volume of a convex body is a central problem in convex geometry and can be viewed as a continuous version of counting. We present a quantum algorithm that estimates the volume of an $n$-dimensional convex body within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Andrew M. Childs , Shih-Han Hung , Tongyang Li , Chunhao Wang , Xiaodi Wu

We introduce space-efficient plane-sweep algorithms for basic planar geometric problems. It is assumed that the input is in a read-only array of $n$ items and that the available workspace is $\Theta(s)$ bits, where $\lg n \leq s \leq n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Amr Elmasry , Frank Kammer

The closest pair problem is a fundamental problem of computational geometry: given a set of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, find a pair with the smallest distance. A classical algorithm taught in introductory courses solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Scott Aaronson , Nai-Hui Chia , Han-Hsuan Lin , Chunhao Wang , Ruizhe Zhang

The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important optimization problems. In recent years, due to its NP-hard nature, several approximation algorithms have been presented. It is proved that the best algorithm for the Bin Packing Problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan

We show that the three-dimensional layers-of-maxima problem can be solved in $o(n\log n)$ time in the word RAM model. Our algorithm runs in $O(n(\log \log n)^3)$ deterministic time or $O(n(\log\log n)^2)$ expected time and uses O(n) space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Yakov Nekrich

We give a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm for maximum independent set for (axis-aligned) rectangles in the plane. Using a polynomial-time algorithm, the best approximation factor previously known is $O(\log\log n)$.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Joseph S. B. Mitchell

We propose faster algorithms for the following three optimization problems on $n$ collinear points, i.e., points in dimension one. The first two problems are known to be NP-hard in higher dimensions. 1- Maximizing total area of disjoint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ahmad Biniaz , Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , Anil Maheshwari , J. Ian Munro , Michiel Smid

In this paper, we address the minimum-area rectangular and square annulus problem, which asks a rectangular or square annulus of minimum area, either in a fixed orientation or over all orientations, that encloses a set $P$ of $n$ input…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Sang Won Bae

We propose a technique called Rotate-and-Kill for solving the polygon inclusion and circumscribing problems. By applying this technique, we obtain $O(n)$ time algorithms for computing (1) the maximum area triangle in a given $n$-sided…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kai Jin , Taikun Zhu , Ruixi Luo

In the range closest pair problem, we want to construct a data structure storing a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane, such that for any axes-parallel query rectangle $R$, the closest pair in the set $R \cap S$ can be reported. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Sang Won Bae , Michiel Smid

We study algorithms for estimating the size of maximum matching. This problem has been subject to extensive research. For $n$-vertex graphs, Bhattacharya, Kiss, and Saranurak [FOCS'23] (BKS) showed that an estimate that is within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani , Aviad Rubinstein

We propose a new approach to the computation of the hypervolume indicator, based on partitioning the dominated region into a set of axis-parallel hyperrectangles or boxes. We present a nonincremental algorithm and an incremental algorithm,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Renaud Lacour , Kathrin Klamroth , Carlos M. Fonseca

We study the problem of robustly learning multi-dimensional histograms. A $d$-dimensional function $h: D \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is called a $k$-histogram if there exists a partition of the domain $D \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

Ordered search is the task of finding an item in an ordered list using comparison queries. The best exact classical algorithm for this fundamental problem uses $\lceil \log_{2}{n}\rceil$ queries for a list of length $n$. Quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Joseph Carolan , Andrew M. Childs , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Luke Schaeffer

This paper describes novel and fast, simple and robust algorithm with O(N) expected complexity which enables to decrease run-time needed to find an exact maximum distance of two points in E2. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Vaclav Skala

A terrain is an $x$-monotone polygon whose lower boundary is a single line segment. We present an algorithm to find in a terrain a triangle of largest area in $O(n \log n)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices defining the terrain. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sergio Cabello , Arun Kumar Das , Sandip Das , Joydeep Mukherjee

In this paper we study quantum algorithms for NP-complete problems whose best classical algorithm is an exponential time application of dynamic programming. We introduce the path in the hypercube problem that models many of these dynamic…

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be a collection of $D$ documents, which are strings over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, of total length $n$. We describe a data structure that uses linear space and and reports $k$ most relevant documents that contain a…

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