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The speed of a class of graphs counts the number of graphs on the vertex set $\lbrace 1,\dots, n\rbrace$ inside the class as a function of $n$. In this paper, we investigate this function for many classes of graphs that naturally arise in…

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We describe a variant of the Bellman-Ford algorithm for single-source shortest paths in graphs with negative edges but no negative cycles that randomly permutes the vertices and uses this randomized order to process the vertices within each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Michael J. Bannister , David Eppstein

In several settings (e.g., sensor networks and social networks), nodes of a graph are equipped with initial opinions, and the goal is to estimate the average of these opinions using local operations. A natural algorithm to achieve this is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Dor Elboim , Yuval Peres , Ron Peretz

We study the probability of Boolean functions with small max influence to become constant under random restrictions. Let $f$ be a Boolean function such that the variance of $f$ is $\Omega(1)$ and all its individual influences are bounded by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Ronen Eldan , Avi Wigderson , Pei Wu

We give a $2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}/\epsilon)}$-time algorithm for properly learning monotone Boolean functions under the uniform distribution over $\{0,1\}^n$. Our algorithm is robust to adversarial label noise and has a running time nearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jane Lange , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

For a polynomial f: {-1, 1}^n --> C, we define the partition function as the average of e^{lambda f(x)} over all points x in {-1, 1}^n, where lambda in C is a parameter. We present a quasi-polynomial algorithm, which, given such f, lambda…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Alexander Barvinok

Suppose that $Y^n$ is obtained by observing a uniform Bernoulli random vector $X^n$ through a binary symmetric channel with crossover probability $\alpha$. The "most informative Boolean function" conjecture postulates that the maximal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Wasim Huleihel , Or Ordentlich

This paper describes a purely functional library for computing level-$p$-complexity of Boolean functions, and applies it to two-level iterated majority. Boolean functions are simply functions from $n$ bits to one bit, and they can describe…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Julia Jansson , Patrik Jansson

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. Unlike binary matrix factorization based on standard arithmetic, BMF employs the Boolean OR and AND operations for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Christos Kolomvakis , Thomas Bobille , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

We investigate the approximation for computing the sum $a_1+...+a_n$ with an input of a list of nonnegative elements $a_1,..., a_n$. If all elements are in the range $[0,1]$, there is a randomized algorithm that can compute an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Bin Fu , Wenfeng Li , Zhiyong Peng

Given a sequence $f_1 (x_1), f_2 (x_1, x_2), ..., f_k (x_1, ..., x_k)$ of Boolean functions, each of which $f_i$ takes the value 1 in a single point of the form $x_1^0, x_2^0, ..., x_i^0, i=1,2,..., k$. A length of all $x_i^0$ is $n,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Ozhigov

Many score-based active learning methods have been successfully applied to graph-structured data, aiming to reduce the number of labels and achieve better performance of graph neural networks based on predefined score functions. However,…

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This paper introduces a novel algorithmic solution for the approximation of a given multivariate function by a nomographic function that is composed of a one-dimensional continuous and monotone outer function and a sum of univariate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Steffen Limmer , Jafar Mohammadi , Slawomir Stanczak

In this note, we develop a bounded-error quantum algorithm that makes $\tilde O(n^{1/4}\varepsilon^{-1/2})$ queries to a Boolean function $f$, accepts a monotone function, and rejects a function that is $\varepsilon$-far from being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Aleksandrs Belovs , Eric Blais

Boolean matrix factorization and Boolean matrix completion from noisy observations are desirable unsupervised data-analysis methods due to their interpretability, but hard to perform due to their NP-hardness. We treat these problems as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Barnabas Poczos , Russell Greiner

We give a {\em deterministic} algorithm for approximately computing the fraction of Boolean assignments that satisfy a degree-$2$ polynomial threshold function. Given a degree-2 input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ and a parameter $\eps >…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Anindya De , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio

We study the application of graph random features (GRFs) - a recently introduced stochastic estimator of graph node kernels - to scalable Gaussian processes on discrete input spaces. We prove that (under mild assumptions) Bayesian inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matthew Zhang , Jihao Andreas Lin , Krzysztof Choromanski , Adrian Weller , Richard E. Turner , Isaac Reid

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $r\ge 1$, the $r$th power $G^r$ of $G$ is the graph obtained from $G$ by adding edges for all pairs of distinct vertices at distance at most $r$ from each other. We focus on two basic structural properties…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Alan Frieze , Ross Kang , Aditya Raut , Michelle Sweering , Hilde Verbeek

We show that for a sequence of random graphs Brouwer's conjecture holds true with probability tending to one as the number of vertices tends to infinity. Surprisingly, it was found that a similar statement holds true for weighted graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Israel Rocha

We study the problem of finding the maximum of a function defined on the nodes of a connected graph. The goal is to identify a node where the function obtains its maximum. We focus on local iterative algorithms, which traverse the nodes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh