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Distributed computing systems often need to consider the scheduling problem involving a collection of highly dependent data-processing tasks that must work in concert to achieve mission-critical objectives. This paper considers the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Vaneet Aggarwal , Tian Lan , Suresh Subramaniam , Maotong Xu

We present an extension of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) two-sample test, which can be more sensitive to differences in the tails. Our test statistic is an integral probability metric (IPM) defined over a higher-order total variation ball,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-26 Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala , Yu-Xiang Wang , Aaditya Ramdas , Ryan J. Tibshirani

We consider a natural generalization of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan. In our extension the set of jobs is partitioned into several classes and a machine requires a setup whenever it switches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Alexander Mäcker

This paper aims to investigate the distributed stochastic optimization problems on compact embedded submanifolds (in the Euclidean space) for multi-agent network systems. To address the manifold structure, we propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jishu Zhao , Xi Wang , Jinlong Lei , Shixiang Chen

We target time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) with heterogeneous coefficients in space and time. To tackle these problems, we construct reduced basis/ multiscale ansatz functions defined in space that can be combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Julia Schleuß , Kathrin Smetana , Lukas ter Maat

Given the widespread use of lossless compression algorithms to approximate algorithmic (Kolmogorov-Chaitin) complexity, and that lossless compression algorithms fall short at characterizing patterns other than statistical ones not different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

Link prediction in graphs is an important task in the fields of network science and machine learning. We investigate a flexible means of regularization for link prediction based on an approximation of the Kolmogorov complexity of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Paris D. L. Flood , Ramon Viñas , Pietro Liò

Data representation techniques have made a substantial contribution to advancing data processing and machine learning (ML). Improving predictive power was the focus of previous representation techniques, which unfortunately perform rather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Qiyou Duan , Hadi Ghauch , Taejoon Kim

In this paper, we propose a distributed stochastic second-order proximal method that enables agents in a network to cooperatively minimize the sum of their local loss functions without any centralized coordination. The proposed algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Chenyang Qiu , Shanying Zhu , Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

Given a source of iid samples of edges of an input graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, how many samples does one need to compute a constant factor approximation to the maximum matching size in $G$? Moreover, is it possible to obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Michael Kapralov , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakab Tardos

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

We study the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of a high-dimensional distribution when a small constant fraction of the samples can be arbitrarily corrupted. Recent work gave the first polynomial time algorithms for this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rong Ge , David Woodruff

The numerical evaluation of statistics plays a crucial role in statistical physics and its applied fields. It is possible to evaluate the statistics for a stochastic differential equation with Gaussian white noise via the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Jun Ohkubo

This article is devoted to one particular case of using universal accelerated proximal envelopes to obtain computationally efficient accelerated versions of methods used to solve various optimization problem setups. We propose a proximally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Vladislav Matyukhin

The algorithmic tasks of computing the Hamming distance between a given pattern of length $m$ and each location in a text of length $n$ is one of the most fundamental algorithmic tasks in string algorithms. Unfortunately, there is evidence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat

Chance constrained program where one seeks to minimize an objective over decisions which satisfy randomly disturbed constraints with a given probability is computationally intractable. This paper proposes an approximate approach to address…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-23 Xun Shen , Jiancang Zhuang , Xingguo Zhang

A $c$-short program for a string $x$ is a description of $x$ of length at most $C(x) + c$, where $C(x)$ is the Kolmogorov complexity of $x$. We show that there exists a randomized algorithm that constructs a list of $n$ elements that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Bruno Bauwens , Marius Zimand

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We present a local algorithm (constant-time distributed algorithm) for approximating max-min LPs. The objective is to maximise $\omega$ subject to $Ax \le 1$, $Cx \ge \omega 1$, and $x \ge 0$ for nonnegative matrices $A$ and $C$. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Patrik Floréen , Joel Kaasinen , Petteri Kaski , Jukka Suomela

We prove that the extremum stack of a discrete sequence is a minimal sufficient statistic for the class of all computable, causal, rate-independent functionals, in the sense of Kolmogorov complexity. Specifically, we establish K(Pi_n) -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Piotr Frydrych