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We show that $n$ real numbers can be stored in a constant number of real numbers such that each original real number can be fetched in $O(\log n)$ time. Although our result has implications for many computational geometry problems, we show…

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We revisit the question of reducing online learning to approximate optimization of the offline problem. In this setting, we give two algorithms with near-optimal performance in the full information setting: they guarantee optimal regret and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Elad Hazan , Wei Hu , Yuanzhi Li , Zhiyuan Li

We consider online algorithms for the $k$-server problem on trees of size $n$. Chrobak and Larmore proposed a $k$-competitive algorithm for this problem that has the optimal competitive ratio. However, the existing implementations have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kamil Khadiev , Maxim Yagafarov

We consider online $k$-means clustering where each new point is assigned to the nearest cluster center, after which the algorithm may update its centers. The loss incurred is the sum of squared distances from new points to their assigned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Robi Bhattacharjee , Jacob Imola , Michal Moshkovitz , Sanjoy Dasgupta

We study streaming algorithms for the fundamental geometric problem of computing the cost of the Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) on an $n$-point set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. In the streaming model, the points in $X$ can be added and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Xi Chen , Rajesh Jayaram , Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

Quantum kernel methods are among the leading candidates for achieving quantum advantage in supervised learning. A key bottleneck is the cost of inference: evaluating a trained model on new data requires estimating a weighted sum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Elies Gil-Fuster , Seongwook Shin , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert , Maximilian J. Kramer

We prove a query complexity lower bound for $\mathsf{QMA}$ protocols that solve approximate counting: estimating the size of a set given a membership oracle. This gives rise to an oracle $A$ such that $\mathsf{SBP}^A \not\subset…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-08 William Kretschmer

This paper develops a new technique for proving amortized, randomized cell-probe lower bounds on dynamic data structure problems. We introduce a new randomized nondeterministic four-party communication model that enables "accelerated",…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Omri Weinstein , Huacheng Yu

Space efficient algorithms play a central role in dealing with large amount of data. In such settings, one would like to analyse the large data using small amount of "working space". One of the key steps in many algorithms for analysing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Anup Bhattacharya , Davis Issac , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

In this work, we define the generalized wake-up problem, $GWU(s)$, for a shared memory asynchronous system with $n$ processes. Informally, the problem, which is parametrized by an increasing sequence $s = s_1,\ldots,s_p$, asks that at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Siddhartha Visveswara Jayanti

For a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane and a value $r > 0$, the unit-disk range reporting problem is to construct a data structure so that given any query disk of radius $r$, all points of $P$ in the disk can be reported efficiently. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

One of the main problems for the future of practical quantum computing is to stabilize the computation against unwanted interactions with the environment and imperfections in the applied operations. Existing proposals for quantum memories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme

We prove that \Omega(n log(n)) comparisons are necessary for any quantum algorithm that sorts n numbers with high success probability and uses only comparisons. If no error is allowed, at least 0.110nlog_2(n) - 0.067n + O(1) comparisons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yaoyun Shi

The fast marching algorithm computes an approximate solution to the eikonal equation in O(N log N) time, where the factor log N is due to the administration of a priority queue. Recently, Yatziv, Bartesaghi and Sapiro have suggested to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Christian Rasch , Thomas Satzger

We consider the fundamental problems of approximately counting the numbers of edges and triangles in a graph in sublinear time. Previous algorithms for these tasks are significantly more efficient under a promise that the arboricity of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

We explore the fundamental limits of distributed balls-into-bins algorithms. We present an adaptive symmetric algorithm that achieves a bin load of two in log* n+O(1) communication rounds using O(n) messages in total. Larger bin loads can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Christoph Lenzen , Roger Wattenhofer

We give a quantum approximation scheme (i.e., $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation for every $\varepsilon > 0$) for the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the QRAM model with a running time that has only polylogarithmic dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ragesh Jaiswal

Approximating quantiles and distributions over streaming data has been studied for roughly two decades now. Recently, Karnin, Lang, and Liberty proposed the first asymptotically optimal algorithm for doing so. This manuscript complements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Nikita Ivkin , Edo Liberty , Kevin Lang , Zohar Karnin , Vladimir Braverman

Counting is among the most fundamental operations in computing. For example, counting the pth frequency moment has been a very active area of research, in theoretical computer science, databases, and data mining. When p=1, the task (i.e.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-24 Ping Li

We address the problem of sequential prediction with expert advice in a non-stationary environment with long-term memory guarantees in the sense of Bousquet and Warmuth [4]. We give a linear-time algorithm that improves on the best known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 James Robinson , Mark Herbster