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This paper presents a saddlepoint approximation of the random-coding union bound of Polyanskiy et al. for i.i.d. random coding over discrete memoryless channels. The approximation is single-letter, and can thus be computed efficiently.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In this paper we give a conditional improvement to the Elekes-Szab\'{o} problem over the rationals, assuming the Uniformity Conjecture. Our main result states that for $F\in \mathbb{Q}[x,y,z]$ belonging to a particular family of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Mehdi Makhul , Oliver Roche-Newton , Sophie Stevens , Audie Warren

We propose upper and lower bounds on the maximum success probability for discriminating given quantum states. The proposed upper bound is obtained from a suboptimal solution to the dual problem of the corresponding optimal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-12 Kenji Nakahira , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda , Kentaro Kato

Unitary estimation is the task to estimate an unknown unitary operator $U\in\mathrm{SU}(d)$ with $n$ queries to the corresponding unitary operation, and its accuracy is evaluated by an estimation fidelity. We show that the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Satoshi Yoshida , Hironobu Yoshida , Mio Murao

Uncertainty lower bounds for parameter estimations associated with a unitary family of mixed-state density matrices are obtained by embedding the space of density matrices in the Hilbert space of square-root density matrices. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Alex J. Belfield , Dorje C. Brody

In this paper we present a new bound obtained with the probabilistic method for the solution of the Set Covering problem with unit costs. The bound is valid for problems of fixed dimension, thus extending previous similar asymptotic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Giovanni Felici , Sokol Ndreca , Aldo Procacci , Benedetto Scoppola

We derive a new upper bound on the reliability function for channel coding over discrete memoryless channels. Our bounding technique relies on two main elements: (i) adding an auxiliary genie-receiver that reveals to the original receiver a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Optimal Transport (OT) is a fundamental tool for comparing probability distributions, but its exact computation remains prohibitive for large datasets. In this work, we introduce novel families of upper and lower bounds for the OT problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 David Alvarez-Melis , Nicolò Fusi , Lester Mackey , Tal Wagner

We introduce remarkable upper bounds for the interpolation error constants on triangles, which are sharp and given by simple formulas. These constants are crucial in analyzing interpolation errors, particularly those associated with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Kenta Kobayashi

We prove tight entropic uncertainty relations for a large number of mutually unbiased measurements. In particular, we show that a bound derived from the result by Maassen and Uffink for 2 such measurements can in fact be tight for up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel A. Ballester , Stephanie Wehner

This paper investigates and bounds the expected solution quality of combinatorial optimization problems when feasible solutions are chosen at random. Loose general bounds are discovered, as well as families of combinatorial optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Evan A. Sultanik

Worst-case bounds on the expected shortfall risk given only limited information on the distribution of the random variables has been studied extensively in the literature. In this paper, we develop a new worst-case bound on the expected…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-12 Anulekha Dhara , Bikramjit Das , Karthik Natarajan

We provide a new proof of the linear convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) when one of the objective terms is strongly convex. Our proof is based on a framework for analyzing optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Robert Nishihara , Laurent Lessard , Benjamin Recht , Andrew Packard , Michael I. Jordan

Constructing small-sized coresets for various clustering problems in different metric spaces has attracted significant attention for the past decade. A central problem in the coreset literature is to understand what is the best possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Xuan Wu

A recent conjecture of Caputo, Carlen, Lieb, and Loss, and, independently, of the author, states that the maximum of the permanent of a matrix whose rows are unit vectors in l_p is attained either for the identity matrix I or for a constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Samorodnitsky

It has long been known that random regular graphs are with high probability good expanders. This was first established in the 1980s by Bollob\'as by directly calculating the probability that a set of vertices has small expansion and then…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Michael Lampis

The problem of determining the best achievable performance of arbitrary lossless compression algorithms is examined, when correlated side information is available at both the encoder and decoder. For arbitrary source-side information pairs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We give an improved lower bound of 10/3 on the competitive ratio for the exploration of an undirected, edge-weighted graph with a single agent that needs to return to the starting location after visiting all vertices. We assume that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Alexander Birx , Yann Disser , Alexander V. Hopp , Christina Karousatou

Let ${\mathcal D}(n)$ be the maximal determinant for $n \times n$ $\{\pm 1\}$-matrices, and $\mathcal R(n) = {\mathcal D}(n)/n^{n/2}$ be the ratio of ${\mathcal D}(n)$ to the Hadamard upper bound. Using the probabilistic method, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Richard P. Brent , Judy-anne H. Osborn , Warren D. Smith

We consider the problem of lower bounding a generalized Minkowski measure of subsets of a convex body with a log-concave probability measure, conditioned on the set size. A bound is given in terms of diameter and set size, which is sharp…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ravi Montenegro