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We prove a tight lower bound for the exponent $\rho$ for data-dependent Locality-Sensitive Hashing schemes, recently used to design efficient solutions for the $c$-approximate nearest neighbor search. In particular, our lower bound matches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Alexandr Andoni , Ilya Razenshteyn

We prove an exponential size separation between depth 2 and depth 3 neural networks (with real inputs), when approximating a $\mathcal{O}(1)$-Lipschitz target function to constant accuracy, with respect to a distribution with support in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Itay Safran , Daniel Reichman , Paul Valiant

We show that a large fraction of the data-structure lower bounds known today in fact follow by reduction from the communication complexity of lopsided (asymmetric) set disjointness. This includes lower bounds for: * high-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Mihai Patrascu

In this paper, we discuss an algorithm for the problem of undirected st-connectivity that is deterministic and log-space, namely that of Reingold within his 2008 paper "Undirected Connectivity in Log-Space". We further present a separate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Shilun Li , Alex Lee

We prove a hypercontractive inequality for matrix-valued functions defined over large alphabets. In order to do so, we prove a generalization of the powerful $2$-uniform convexity inequality for trace norms of Ball, Carlen, Lieb…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Joao F. Doriguello

The Statistical Learning Theory (SLT) provides the foundation to ensure that a supervised algorithm generalizes the mapping $f: \mathcal{X} \to \mathcal{Y}$ given $f$ is selected from its search space bias $\mathcal{F}$. SLT depends on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello

In the recent years, intensive research work has been dedicated to prove conditional lower bounds in order to reveal the inner structure of the class P. These conditional lower bounds are based on many popular conjectures on well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Isaac Goldstein , Moshe Lewenstein , Ely Porat

Directed $st$-connectivity (DSTCON) is the problem of deciding if there exists a directed path between a pair of distinguished vertices $s$ and $t$ in an input directed graph. This problem appears in many algorithmic applications, and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Stacey Jeffery , Galina Pass

The power of adaptivity in algorithms has been intensively studied in diverse areas of theoretical computer science. In this paper, we obtain a number of sharp lower bound results which show that adaptivity provides a significant extra…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Itai Dinur , Nathan Keller , Avichai Marmor

We consider the classic problem of computing the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two strings of length $n$. While a simple quadratic algorithm has been known for the problem for more than 40 years, no faster algorithm has been found…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Karl Bringmann , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Debarati Das

Motivated by communication through a network employing linear network coding, capacities of linear operator channels (LOCs) with arbitrarily distributed transfer matrices over finite fields are studied. Both the Shannon capacity $C$ and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Shenghao Yang , Siu-Wai Ho , Jin Meng , En-hui Yeung

We give a deterministic $\tilde{O}(\log n)$-space algorithm for approximately solving linear systems given by Laplacians of undirected graphs, and consequently also approximating hitting times, commute times, and escape probabilities for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Jack Murtagh , Omer Reingold , Aaron Sidford , Salil Vadhan

We consider the optimization variant of the realizability problem for Prompt Linear Temporal Logic, an extension of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) by the prompt eventually operator whose scope is bounded by some parameter. In the realizability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Leander Tentrup , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

We give an $\tilde{O}(m)$-time algorithm for the edge connectivity augmentation problem and the closely related edge splitting-off problem. This is optimal up to lower order terms and closes the long line of work on these problems.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

The scaling of transient times to zero-lag synchronization in networks composed of excitable units is shown to be governed by three features of the graph representing the network: the longest path between pairs of neurons (diameter), the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-11 H. Brama , Y. Peleg , W. Kinzel , I. Kanter

In this paper, we show that given a weighted, directed planar graph $G$, and any $\epsilon >0$, there exists a polynomial time and $O(n^{\frac{1}{2}+\epsilon})$ space algorithm that computes the shortest path between two fixed vertices in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Diptarka Chakraborty , Raghunath Tewari

The Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) is a standard assumption in (fine-grained) parameterized complexity and many tight lower bounds are based on it. We consider a number of reasonable weakenings of the SETH, with sources from (i)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Michael Lampis

Optimizing and certifying the positivity of polynomials are fundamental primitives across mathematics and engineering applications, from dynamical systems to operations research. However, solving these problems in practice requires large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hannah Lawrence , Mitchell Tong Harris

In pliable index coding, we consider a server with $m$ messages and $n$ clients where each client has as side information a subset of the messages. We seek to minimize the number of broadcast transmissions, so that each client can recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Linqi Song , Christina Fragouli

Standpoint linear temporal logic SLTL is a recent formalism able to model possibly conflicting commitments made by distinct agents, taking into account aspects of temporal reasoning. In this paper, we analyse the computational properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Stéphane Demri , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga