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Many problems in computational geometry are not stated in graph-theoretic terms, but can be solved efficiently by constructing an auxiliary graph and performing a graph-theoretic algorithm on it. Often, the efficiency of the algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-08-28 David Eppstein

Arithmetic combinatorics is often concerned with the problem of bounding the behaviour of arbitrary finite sets in a group or ring with respect to arithmetic operations such as addition or multiplication. Similarly, combinatorial geometry…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-01 Terence Tao

Applied research in graph algorithms and combinatorial structures needs comprehensive and versatile software libraries. However, the design and the implementation of flexible libraries are challenging activities. Among the other problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maurizio Pizzonia , Giuseppe Di Battista

With recent dramatic increases in AI system capabilities, there has been growing interest in utilizing machine learning for reasoning-heavy, quantitative tasks, particularly mathematics. While there are many resources capturing mathematics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Herman Chau , Helen Jenne , Davis Brown , Jesse He , Mark Raugas , Sara Billey , Henry Kvinge

In this text we develop the formalism of products and powers of linear codes under componentwise multiplication. As an expanded version of the author's talk at AGCT-14, focus is put mostly on basic properties and descriptive statements that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Hugues Randriambololona

This chapter delves into the realm of computational complexity, exploring the world of challenging combinatorial problems and their ties with statistical physics. Our exploration starts by delving deep into the foundations of combinatorial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-04 Raffaele Marino

The material in this note is used as an introduction to distributed algorithms in a four year course on software and automatic control system in the computer technology department of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur state technical university. All…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-18 Ahmet A. Husainov

We apply model theoretic methods to the problem of existence of countable universal graphs with finitely many forbidden connected subgraphs. We show that to a large extent the question reduces to one of local finiteness of an…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Gregory Cherlin , Saharon Shelah , Niandong Shi

How can complexity theory and algorithms benefit from practical advances in computing? We give a short overview of some prior work using practical computing to attack problems in computational complexity and algorithms, informally describe…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-11 Ryan Williams

The analysis of graphs has become increasingly important to a wide range of applications. Graph analysis presents a number of unique challenges in the areas of (1) software complexity, (2) data complexity, (3) security, (4) mathematical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jeremy Kepner , David Bader , Aydın Buluc , John Gilbert , Timothy Mattson , Henning Meyerhenke

Mathematical programming is a branch of applied mathematics and has recently been used to derive new decoding approaches, challenging established but often heuristic algorithms based on iterative message passing. Concepts from mathematical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Michael Helmling , Stefan Ruzika , Akin Tanatmis

A research problem for undergraduates and graduates is being posed as a cap for the prior antecedent regular discrete mathematics exercises. [Here cap is not necessarily CAP=Competitive Access Provider, though nevertheless ...] The object…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-23 A. Krzysztof Kwaśniewski , Ewa Krot-Sieniawska

Quantum computing provides computational advantages in various domains. To benefit from these advantages complex hybrid quantum applications must be built, which comprise both quantum and classical programs. Engineering these applications…

We explore in the framework of Quantum Computation the notion of computability, which holds a central position in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. A quantum algorithm that exploits the quantum adiabatic processes is considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tien D. Kieu

In this paper we report on an application of computer algebra in which mathematical puzzles are generated of a type that had been widely used in mathematics contests by a large number of participants worldwide. The algorithmic aspect of our…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Thomas Wolf , Chimaobi Amadi

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

Random matrices now play a role in many parts of computational mathematics. To advance these applications, it is desirable to have tools that are flexible, easy to use, and powerful. Over the last 25 years, researchers have developed a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Joel A. Tropp

In this research notebook in the four-part, quantum computation and applications, quantum computation and algorithms, quantum communication protocol, and universal quantum computation for quantum engineers, researchers, and scientists, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Bhupesh Bishnoi

In this paper we consider several classical and novel algorithmic problems for right-angled Artin groups, some of which are closely related to graph theoretic problems, and study their computational complexity. We study these problems with…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Ramón Flores , Delaram Kahrobaei , Thomas Koberda

In this article we cover the canonical problem formulation necessary to program the D-Wave quantum processing unit (QPU) and discuss how such a problem is compiled onto the QPU. We also cover recent joint work solving a problem from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Jesse J. Berwald