English
Related papers

Related papers: Polynomial-Time Approximation of Zero-Free Partiti…

200 papers

In the Maximum Independent Set of Objects problem, we are given an $n$-vertex planar graph $G$ and a family $\mathcal{D}$ of $N$ objects, where each object is a connected subgraph of $G$. The task is to find a subfamily $\mathcal{F}…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jana Cslovjecsek , Michał Pilipczuk , Karol Węgrzycki

We study an algorithm for approximating the multivariate independence polynomial $Z(\mathbf{z})$, with negative and complex arguments, an object that has strong connections to combinatorics and to statistical physics. In particular, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Piyush Srivastava , Jan Vondrák

We consider the problem of computing sample points in each connected component of a semi-algebraic set defined by the non-vanishing or the positivity of an n-variate polynomial of degree d, with rational coefficients of bit size bounded by…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jérémy Berthomieu , Edern Gillot , Mohab Safey El Din

Function approximation is a generic process in a variety of computational problems, from data interpolation to the solution of differential equations and inverse problems. In this work, a unified approach for such techniques is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Nikolaos P. Bakas

We calculate the zeros of an exponential polynomial of three variables by a classical algorithm and quantum algorithms which are based on the method of van Dam and Shparlinski, they treated the case of two variables, and compare with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-10 Yasuo Ohno , Yoshitaka Sasaki , Chika Yamazaki

We describe a quantum algorithm for preparing states that encode solutions of non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations. The algorithm is a continuous-variable version of matrix inversion: it efficiently inverts differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Timjan Kalajdzievski , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

We derive the semiclassical series for the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical system consisting of a particle in a single-well potential. We do this by applying the method of steepest descent to the path-integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti , E. S. Fraga , S. E. Joras

We describe a deterministic algorithm that computes an approximate root of n complex polynomial equations in n unknowns in average polynomial time with respect to the size of the input, in the Blum-Shub-Smale model with square root. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Pierre Lairez

We present a polynomial-time $(\alpha_{GW} + \varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for the Maximum Cut problem on interval graphs and split graphs, where $\alpha_{GW} \approx 0.878$ is the approximation guarantee of the Goemans-Williamson…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jungho Ahn , Ian DeHaan , Eun Jung Kim , Euiwoong Lee

For a finite $\mathbb{Z}$-algebra $R$, i.e., for a $\mathbb{Z}$-algebra which is a finitely generated $\mathbb{Z}$-module, we assume that $R$ is explicitly given by a system of $\mathbb{Z}$-module generators $G$, its relation module ${\rm…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Martin Kreuzer , Florian Walsh

We provide polynomial-time approximately optimal Bayesian mechanisms for makespan minimization on unrelated machines as well as for max-min fair allocations of indivisible goods, with approximation factors of $2$ and $\min\{m-k+1,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Constantinos Daskalakis , S. Matthew Weinberg

The simulation of the physical movement of multi-body systems at an atomistic level, with forces calculated from a quantum mechanical description of the electrons, motivates a graph partitioning problem studied in this article. Several…

We give an improved algorithm for learning a quantum Hamiltonian given copies of its Gibbs state, that can succeed at any temperature. Specifically, we improve over the work of Bakshi, Liu, Moitra, and Tang [BLMT24], by reducing the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Shyam Narayanan

We give two new approximation algorithms to compute the fractional hypertree width of an input hypergraph. The first algorithm takes as input $n$-vertex $m$-edge hypergraph $H$ of fractional hypertree width at most $\omega$, runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Viktoriia Korchemna , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan , Jie Xue

Reconstruction of arithmetic circuits has been heavily studied in the past few years and has connections to proving lower bounds and deterministic identity testing. In this paper we present a polynomial time randomized algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Gaurav Sinha

Graph partitioning is a key fundamental problem in the area of big graph computation. Previous works do not consider the practical requirements when optimizing the big data analysis in real applications. In this paper, motivated by…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Baoling Ning , Jianzhong Li

Celebrated work of Jerrum, Sinclair, and Vigoda has established that the permanent of a {0,1} matrix can be approximated in randomized polynomial time by using a rapidly mixing Markov chain. A separate strand of the literature has pursued…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-10 Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

In this paper we introduce a new approach for approximately counting in bounded degree systems with higher-order constraints. Our main result is an algorithm to approximately count the number of solutions to a CNF formula $\Phi$ when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ankur Moitra

We study the problem of learning a local quantum Hamiltonian $H$ given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho = e^{-\beta H}/\textrm{tr}(e^{-\beta H})$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta>0$. Anshu, Arunachalam, Kuwahara, and Soleimanifar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

In this article we provide an experimental algorithm that in many cases gives us an upper bound of the global infimum of a real polynomial on $\R^{n}$. It is very well known that to find the global infimum of a real polynomial on $\R^{n}$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 María López Quijorna