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Inspired by the classical fractional cascading technique, we introduce new techniques to speed up the following type of iterated search in 3D: The input is a graph $\mathbf{G}$ with bounded degree together with a set $H_v$ of 3D hyperplanes…

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Cost-sensitive learning is a common type of machine learning problem where different errors of prediction incur different costs. In this paper, we design a generic nonparametric active learning algorithm for cost-sensitive classification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Boris Ndjia Njike , Xavier Siebert

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 prototypical high-dimensional statistics problem entails finding a structured signal in noise. Many of these problems exhibit an intriguing phenomenon: the amount of data needed by all known computationally efficient algorithms far…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler , Wasim Huleihel

We revisit classic string problems considered in the area of parameterized complexity, and study them through the lens of dynamic data structures. That is, instead of asking for a static algorithm that solves the given instance efficiently,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jędrzej Olkowski , Michał Pilipczuk , Mateusz Rychlicki , Karol Węgrzycki , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

The Subset Sum problem asks whether a given set of $n$ positive integers contains a subset of elements that sum up to a given target $t$. It is an outstanding open question whether the $O^*(2^{n/2})$-time algorithm for Subset Sum by…

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The Subset Sum problem is a classical NP-complete problem with a long-standing $O^*(2^{n/2})$ deterministic bound due to Horowitz and Sahni. We present results at two distinct levels of generality. First (instance-sensitive bound), we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jesus Salas

This paper presents a deterministic algorithmic approach of exploring the solution space of the Subset Sum Problem. The algorithm presented is input-robust and structurally adaptive. Exploration is guided and narrows into areas in the…

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Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a separable nonsmooth convex function subject to linear coupling constraints. Problems of this form arise in many contemporary applications including signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Mingyi Hong , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiangfeng Wang , Meisam Razaviyayn , Shiqian Ma , Zhi-Quan Luo

Given a large data matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, we consider the problem of determining whether its entries are i.i.d. with some known marginal distribution $A_{ij}\sim P_0$, or instead $A$ contains a principal submatrix $A_{{\sf…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

Neural network-based methods for (un)conditional density estimation have recently gained substantial attention, as various neural density estimators have outperformed classical approaches in real-data experiments. Despite these empirical…

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During the past decades significant efforts have been made to propose data structures for answering connectivity queries on fully dynamic graphs, i.e., graphs with frequent insertions and deletions of edges. However, a comprehensive…

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Analysis of high-dimensional data has led to increased interest in both single index models (SIMs) and the best-subset selection. SIMs provide an interpretable and flexible modeling framework for high-dimensional data, while the best-subset…

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We establish new exponential in dimension lower bounds for the Maximum Halfspace Discrepancy problem, which models linear classification. Both are fundamental problems in computational geometry and machine learning in their exact and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Alexander Munteanu , Simon Omlor , Jeff M. Phillips

In 2019 Anthony Quas, Philippe Thieullen and Mohamed Zarrabi introduced the concept of strong fast invertibility for linear cocycles. It relates the growth of volumes between different initial times and, together with a condition on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Florian Noethen

Co-design conditions for the design of a jumping-rule and a sampled-data control law for impulsive and impulsive switched systems subject to aperiodic sampled-data measurements are provided. Semi-infinite discrete-time Lyapunov-Metzler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Corentin Briat

We propose a procedure for automated implicit inductive theorem proving for equational specifications made of rewrite rules with conditions and constraints. The constraints are interpreted over constructor terms (representing data values),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-01 Adel Bouhoula , Florent Jacquemard

We provide a new approach for establishing hardness of approximation results, based on the theory recently introduced by the author. It allows one to directly show that approximating a problem beyond a certain threshold requires…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ali Çivril

While the SLIM approach obtained high ranking-accuracy in many experiments in the literature, it is also known for its high computational cost of learning its parameters from data. For this reason, we focus in this paper on variants of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Harald Steck

To date, the only way to argue polynomial lower bounds for dynamic algorithms is via fine-grained complexity arguments. These arguments rely on strong assumptions about specific problems such as the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sayan Bhattacharya , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak