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Deep models have achieved impressive progress in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). A burgeoning paradigm is learning neural operators to approximate the input-output mappings of PDEs. While previous deep models have explored…

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The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important discrete optimization instance that encompasses many well-known combinatorial optimization problems, and has applications in a wide range of areas such as logistics and computer vision.…

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In recent years, several experimental groups have claimed demonstrations of ``quantum supremacy'' or computational quantum advantage. A notable first claim by Google Quantum AI revolves around a metric called the Linear Cross Entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Andrew Tanggara , Mile Gu , Kishor Bharti

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding for arbitrary block codes remains fundamentally hard, with worst-case time complexity-measured by the total number of multiplications-being no better than straightforward exhaustive search, which requires…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Michael Schleppy

The Linear Ordering Problem (LOP) is a very popular NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with many practical applications that may require the use of large instances. The Linear Ordering Library (LOLIB) gathers a set of standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Lázaro Lugo , Carlos Segura , Gara Miranda

We perform a smoothed analysis of the termination phase of an interior-point method. By combining this analysis with the smoothed analysis of Renegar's interior-point algorithm by Dunagan, Spielman and Teng, we show that the smoothed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

Smoothed analysis is a powerful paradigm in overcoming worst-case intractability in unsupervised learning and high-dimensional data analysis. While polynomial time smoothed analysis guarantees have been obtained for worst-case intractable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Aditya Bhaskara , Aidao Chen , Aidan Perreault , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Solving linear systems of equations is a common problem that arises both on its own and as a subroutine in more complex problems: given a matrix A and a vector b, find a vector x such that Ax=b. We consider the case where one doesn't need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 Aram W. Harrow , Avinatan Hassidim , Seth Lloyd

Structured output prediction problems (e.g., sequential tagging, hierarchical multi-class classification) often involve constraints over the output label space. These constraints interact with the learned models to filter infeasible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tao Meng , Kai-Wei Chang

Recently, Arjevani et al. [1] established a lower bound of iteration complexity for the first-order optimization under an $L$-smooth condition and a bounded noise variance assumption. However, a thorough review of existing literature on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bohan Wang , Jingwen Fu , Huishuai Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Wei Chen

The emergence of huge-scale, data-intensive linear optimization (LO) problems in applications such as machine learning has driven the need for more computationally efficient interior point methods (IPMs). While conventional IPMs are…

We study the minimax sample complexity of multicalibration in the batch setting. A learner observes $n$ i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution and must output a (possibly randomized) predictor whose population multicalibration error,…

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The integration of Formal Verification tools with Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a path to scale software verification beyond manual workflows. However, current methods remain unreliable: without a solid theoretical footing, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 PIerre Dantas , Lucas Cordeiro , Youcheng Sun , Waldir Junior

The Weighted Tree Augmentation Problem (WTAP) is a fundamental network design problem where the goal is to find a minimum-cost set of additional edges (links) to make an input tree 2-edge-connected. While a 2-approximation is standard and…

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We consider the classic Set Cover problem in the data stream model. For $n$ elements and $m$ sets ($m\geq n$) we give a $O(1/\delta)$-pass algorithm with a strongly sub-linear $\tilde{O}(mn^{\delta})$ space and logarithmic approximation…

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Autoregressive decoding inherently limits the inference throughput of Large Language Model (LLM) due to its sequential dependency. Speculative decoding mitigates this by verifying multiple predicted tokens in parallel, but its efficiency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Siran Liu , Yang Ye , Qianchao Zhu , Zane Cao , Yongchao He

Recently, several approaches to solving linear systems on a quantum computer have been formulated in terms of the quantum adiabatic theorem for a continuously varying Hamiltonian. Such approaches enabled near-linear scaling in the condition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Pedro C. S. Costa , Dong An , Yuval R. Sanders , Yuan Su , Ryan Babbush , Dominic W. Berry

This paper presents a method to certify the computational complexity of a standard Branch and Bound method for solving Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) problems defined as instances of a multi-parametric MIQP. Beyond previous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Shamisa Shoja , Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

In this paper, we study the fundamental open question of finding the optimal high-order algorithm for solving smooth convex minimization problems. Arjevani et al. (2019) established the lower bound $\Omega\left(\epsilon^{-2/(3p+1)}\right)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov

It is well known that, given \(b\ge 0\), finding an $(a,b)$-trapping set with the minimum \(a\) in a binary linear code is NP-hard. In this paper, we demonstrate that this problem can be solved with linear complexity with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Qingqing Peng , Ke Liu , Guiying Yan , Guanghui Wang