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The Hidden Subset Sum Problem (HSSP) is a significant NP-complete problem in number theory and combinatorics, with applications in cryptography and AI privacy. For the $(n,k)$-complete HSSP, where a target multiset must be recovered from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Lixia Luo , Changheng Li , Qiongxiu Li

The main purpose of this paper is to study the NP-complete subset-sum problem, not in the usual context of time-complexity-based classification of the algorithms (exponential/polynomial), but through a new kind of algorithmic classification…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Antonios Syreloglou

We revisit two well-known algorithmic problems on strings: computing a shortest unique substring (SUS) and a shortest absent substring (SAS) of a string $S$ of length $n$. Both problems admit folklore $\mathcal{O}(n)$-time solutions using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Manal Mohamed , Solon P. Pissis , Hilde Verbeek , Wiktor Zuba

We study the problem of distributed distinct element estimation, where $\alpha$ servers each receive a subset of a universe $[n]$ and aim to compute a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation to the number of distinct elements using minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Jasper C. H. Lee , Thanasis Pittas , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

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

We present the first $\mathrm{o}(n)$-space polynomial-time algorithm for computing the length of a longest common subsequence. Given two strings of length $n$, the algorithm runs in $\mathrm{O}(n^{3})$ time with $\mathrm{O}\left(\frac{n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Masashi Kiyomi , Takashi Horiyama , Yota Otachi

We present new classical and quantum algorithms for solving random subset-sum instances. First, we improve over the Becker-Coron-Joux algorithm (EUROCRYPT 2011) from $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(2^{0.291 n})$ downto $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(2^{0.283…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Xavier Bonnetain , Rémi Bricout , André Schrottenloher , Yixin Shen

We present a polynomial time algorithm, which solves a nonstandard Variation of the well-known PARTITION-problem: Given positive integers $n, k$ and $t$ such that $t \geq n$ and $k \cdot t = {n+1 \choose 2}$, the algorithm partitions the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alexander Büchel , Ulrich Gilleßen , Kurt-Ulrich Witt

Given a set $X$ of $n$ binary words of equal length $w$, the 3XOR problem asks for three elements $a, b, c \in X$ such that $a \oplus b=c$, where $ \oplus$ denotes the bitwise XOR operation. The problem can be easily solved on a word RAM…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Martin Dietzfelbinger , Philipp Schlag , Stefan Walzer

The modular subset sum problem consists of deciding, given a modulus $m$, a multiset $S$ of $n$ integers in $0..m-1$, and a target integer $t$, whether there exists a subset of $S$ with elements summing to $t \mod m $, and to report such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jean Cardinal , John Iacono

We give efficient algorithms for finding power-sum decomposition of an input polynomial $P(x)= \sum_{i\leq m} p_i(x)^d$ with component $p_i$s. The case of linear $p_i$s is equivalent to the well-studied tensor decomposition problem while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mitali Bafna , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari , Jeff Xu

In the Orthogonal Vectors problem (OV), we are given two families $A, B$ of subsets of $\{1,\ldots,d\}$, each of size $n$, and the task is to decide whether there exists a pair $a \in A$ and $b \in B$ such that $a \cap b = \emptyset$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Anita Dürr , Evangelos Kipouridis , Karol Węgrzycki

We study $\textit{sparse singular value certificates}$ for random rectangular matrices. If $M$ is an $n \times d$ matrix with independent Gaussian entries, we give a new family of polynomial-time algorithms which can certify upper bounds on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ilias Diakonikolas , Samuel B. Hopkins , Ankit Pensia , Stefan Tiegel

In a recent paper, Kuperberg described the first subexponential time algorithm for solving the dihedral hidden subgroup problem. The space requirement of his algorithm is super-polynomial. We describe a modified algorithm whose running time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oded Regev

In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Or Vardi

The Sum-of-Squares (SoS) hierarchy of semidefinite programs is a powerful algorithmic paradigm which captures state-of-the-art algorithmic guarantees for a wide array of problems. In the average case setting, SoS lower bounds provide strong…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Chris Jones , Aaron Potechin , Goutham Rajendran , Madhur Tulsiani , Jeff Xu

This paper introduces a deterministic algorithm for solving an instance of the Subset Sum Problem based on a new method entitled the Bipartite Synthesis Method. The algorithm is described and shown to have worst-case limiting performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Scott Lilienthal

We consider the problem of clustering partially labeled data from a minimal number of randomly chosen pairwise comparisons between the items. We introduce an efficient local algorithm based on a power iteration of the non-backtracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Alaa Saade , Florent Krzakala , Marc Lelarge , Lenka Zdeborová

In this paper we provide improved running times and oracle complexities for approximately minimizing a submodular function. Our main result is a randomized algorithm, which given any submodular function defined on $n$-elements with range…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Brian Axelrod , Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

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…

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