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We consider the problem of finding patrol schedules for $k$ robots to visit a given set of $n$ sites in a metric space. Each robot has the same maximum speed and the goal is to minimize the weighted maximum latency of any site, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Peyman Afshani , Mark De Berg , Kevin Buchin , Jie Gao , Maarten Loffler , Amir Nayyeri , Benjamin Raichel , Rik Sarkar , Haotian Wang , Hao-Tsung Yang

We consider the Euclidean $k$-means clustering problem in a dynamic setting, where we have to explicitly maintain a solution (a set of $k$ centers) $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ subject to point insertions/deletions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yaonan Jin , Jianing Lou

We show that if k-SUM is hard, in the sense that the standard algorithm is essentially optimal, then a variant of the SETH called the Primal Treewidth SETH is true. Formally: if there is an $\varepsilon>0$ and an algorithm which solves SAT…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Michael Lampis

The $k$-means algorithm (Lloyd's algorithm) is a widely used method for clustering unlabeled data. A key bottleneck of the $k$-means algorithm is that each iteration requires time linear in the number of data points, which can be expensive…

The fuzzy $K$-means problem is a generalization of the classical $K$-means problem to soft clusterings, i.e. clusterings where each points belongs to each cluster to some degree. Although popular in practice, prior to this work the fuzzy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Johannes Blömer , Sascha Brauer , Kathrin Bujna

Clustering is an important task with applications in many fields of computer science. We study the fully dynamic setting in which we want to maintain good clusters efficiently when input points (from a metric space) can be inserted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Andreas Wiese

This paper deals with the problem of finding, for a given graph and a given natural number k, a subgraph of k nodes with a maximum number of edges. This problem is known as the k-cluster problem and it is NP-hard on general graphs as well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-09 George B. Mertzios

In the field of algorithmic analysis, one of the more well-known exercises is the subset sum problem. That is, given a set of integers, determine whether one or more integers in the set can sum to a target value. Aside from the brute-force…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Daniel Shea

We consider the problem of computing the Boolean convolution (with wraparound) of $n$~vectors of dimension $m$, or, equivalently, the problem of computing the sumset $A_1+A_2+\ldots+A_n$ for $A_1,\ldots,A_n \subseteq \mathbb{Z}_m$. Boolean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

We show new algorithms and constructions over linear delta-matroids. We observe an alternative representation for linear delta-matroids, as a contraction representation over a skew-symmetric matrix. This is equivalent to the more standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tomohiro Koana , Magnus Wahlström

To study the question under which circumstances small solutions can be found faster than by exhaustive search (and by how much), we study the fine-grained complexity of Boolean constraint satisfaction with size constraint exactly $k$. More…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Marvin Künnemann , Dániel Marx

The Subset Sum problem, which asks whether a set of $n$ integers has a subset summing to a target $t$, is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization. The classical meet-in-the-middle (MIM) algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jesus Salas

Integer linear programs $\min\{c^T x : A x = b, x \in \mathbb{Z}^n_{\ge 0}\}$, where $A \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times n}$, $b \in \mathbb{Z}^m$, and $c \in \mathbb{Z}^n$, can be solved in pseudopolynomial time for any fixed number of constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

Learning-augmented algorithms are a prominent recent development in beyond worst-case analysis. In this framework, a problem instance is provided with a prediction (``advice'') from a machine-learning oracle, which provides partial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Idan Attias , Xing Gao , Lev Reyzin

We study sublinear-time algorithms for solving linear systems $Sz = b$, where $S$ is a diagonally dominant matrix, i.e., $|S_{ii}| \geq \delta + \sum_{j \ne i} |S_{ij}|$ for all $i \in [n]$, for some $\delta \geq 0$. We present randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Weiming Feng , Zelin Li , Pan Peng

We consider so-called $N$-fold integer programs (IPs) of the form $\max\{c^T x : Ax = b, \ell \leq x \leq u, x \in \mathbb Z^{nt}\}, where $A \in \mathbb Z^{(r+sn)\times nt} consists of $n$ arbitrary matrices $A^{(i)} \in \mathbb Z^{r\times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-11 David Fischer , Julian Golak , Matthias Mnich

For the problem of maximizing a monotone, submodular function with respect to a cardinality constraint $k$ on a ground set of size $n$, we provide an algorithm that achieves the state-of-the-art in both its empirical performance and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yixin Chen , Tonmoy Dey , Alan Kuhnle

A natural and important generalization of submodularity -- $k$-submodularity -- applies to set functions with $k$ arguments and appears in a broad range of applications, such as infrastructure design, machine learning, and healthcare. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Qimeng Yu , Simge Küçükyavuz

The problem of non-monotone $k$-submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint ($\kSMK$) over the ground set size $n$ has been raised in many applications in machine learning, such as data summarization, information propagation, etc.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Dung T. K. Ha , Canh V. Pham , Tan D. Tran , Huan X. Hoang

We present a new deterministic algorithm for the sparse Fourier transform problem, in which we seek to identify k << N significant Fourier coefficients from a signal of bandwidth N. Previous deterministic algorithms exhibit quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-27 David Lawlor , Yang Wang , Andrew Christlieb