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Motivated by applications to deep learning which often fail standard Lipschitz smoothness requirements, we examine the problem of sampling from distributions that are not log-concave and are only weakly dissipative, with log-gradients…

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The present paper is intended to provide the basis for the study of weakly differentiable functions on rectifiable varifolds with locally bounded first variation. The concept proposed here is defined by means of integration by parts…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Ulrich Menne

Since 1989, the best known lower bound on static data structures was Siegel's classical cell sampling lower bound. Siegel showed an explicit problem with $n$ inputs and $m$ possible queries such that every data structure that answers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Alexander Golovnev , Tom Gur , Igor Shinkar

In this work, we consider the problem of sampling a $k$-clique in a graph from an almost uniform distribution in sublinear time in the general graph query model. Specifically the algorithm should output each $k$-clique with probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

The goal of image oversegmentation is to divide an image into several pieces, each of which should ideally be part of an object. One of the simplest and yet most effective oversegmentation algorithms is known as local variation (LV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Michael Baltaxe , Peter Meer , Michael Lindenbaum

Hyperbolic geometry has recently garnered considerable attention in machine learning due to its capacity to embed hierarchical graph structures with low distortions for further downstream processing. This paper introduces a simple framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-08 Clémence Allietta , Jean-Philippe Condomines , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Emmanuel Lochin

We present a technique of proving lower bounds for noisy computations. This is achieved by a theorem connecting computations on a kind of randomized decision trees and sampling based algorithms. This approach is surprisingly powerful, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Chinmoy Dutta , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

Sampling from binary quadratic distributions (BQDs) is a fundamental but challenging problem in discrete optimization and probabilistic inference. Previous work established theoretical guarantees for stochastic localization (SL) in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Chenguang Wang , Kaiyuan Cui , Weichen Zhao , Tianshu Yu

We revisit the factorisation of supersymmetric partition functions of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories. The building blocks are hemisphere partition functions of a class of UV $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ boundary conditions that mimic the presence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Mathew Bullimore , Samuel Crew , Daniel Zhang

Quantum Hamiltonian complexity studies computational complexity aspects of local Hamiltonians and ground states; these questions can be viewed as generalizations of classical computational complexity problems related to local constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani

We study the complexity of fundamental distributed graph problems in the recently popular setting where information about the input graph is available to the nodes before the start of the computation. We focus on the most common such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti

Boson sampling is a sampling task proven to be hard to simulate efficiently using classical computers under plausible assumptions, which makes it an appealing candidate for quantum supremacy. However, due to a large noise rate for near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Hyunseok Jeong

Sampling from constrained statistical distributions is a fundamental task in various fields including Bayesian statistics, computational chemistry, and statistical physics. This article considers the cases where the constrained distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Kijung Jeon , Michael Muehlebach , Molei Tao

In this paper, we study the distribution of the minimal distance (in the Hamming metric) of a random linear code of dimension $k$ in $\mathbb{F}_q^n$. We provide quantitative estimates showing that the distribution function of the minimal…

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Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the spectral distribution for a class of random operators over sofic groups. For this purpose, we make use of the concept of locally and empirically converging measures defined by…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Miguel Donoso-Echenique , Felix Pogorzelski , Michael Schrödl-Baumann

We introduce a new family of quantum circuits in Continuous Variables and we show that, relying on the widely accepted conjecture that the polynomial hierarchy of complexity classes does not collapse, their output probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Ulysse Chabaud , Tom Douce , Damian Markham , Peter van Loock , Elham Kashefi , Giulia Ferrini

A variance reduction technique in nonparametric smoothing is proposed: at each point of estimation, form a linear combination of a preliminary estimator evaluated at nearby points with the coefficients specified so that the asymptotic bias…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-08-22 Ming-Yen Cheng , Liang Peng , Jyh-Shyang Wu

Monte Carlo methods, Variational Inference, and their combinations play a pivotal role in sampling from intractable probability distributions. However, current studies lack a unified evaluation framework, relying on disparate performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Denis Blessing , Xiaogang Jia , Johannes Esslinger , Francisco Vargas , Gerhard Neumann

We propose a novel modular debiasing technique applicable to any discrete random source, addressing the fundamental challenge of reliably extracting high-quality randomness from inherently imperfect physical processes. The method involves…

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