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The Steiner Forest problem, also known as the Generalized Steiner Tree problem, is a fundamental optimization problem on edge-weighted graphs where, given a set of vertex pairs, the goal is to select a minimum-cost subgraph such that each…
The quadratic phase Fourier transform (QPFT) is a generalization of several well-known integral transforms, including the linear canonical transform (LCT), fractional Fourier transform (FrFT), and Fourier transform (FT). This paper…
This paper shows the weighted matching problem on general graphs can be solved in time $O(n(m + n\log n))$ for $n$ and $m$ the number of vertices and edges, respectively. This was previously known only for bipartite graphs. The crux is a…
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and its inverse. In this paper, we pay special attention to the description of complex-data FFT. We analyze two common descriptions of…
A major goal in the area of exact exponential algorithms is to give an algorithm for the (worst-case) $n$-input Subset Sum problem that runs in time $2^{(1/2 - c)n}$ for some constant $c>0$. In this paper we give a Subset Sum algorithm with…
The truncated Fourier transform (TFT) was introduced by van der Hoeven in 2004 as a means of smoothing the "jumps" in running time of the ordinary FFT algorithm that occur at power-of-two input sizes. However, the TFT still introduces these…
Quantum symmetrization is the task of transforming a non-strictly increasing list of $n$ integers into an equal superposition of all permutations of the list (or more generally, performing this operation coherently on a superposition of…
The set $X$ of $k$-subsets of an $n$-set has a natural graph structure where two $k$-subsets are connected if and only if the size of their intersection is $k-1$. This is known as the Johnson graph. The symmetric group $S_n$ acts on the…
In this paper we consider the problem of approximating function evaluations $f(\boldsymbol x_j)$ at given nonequispaced points $\boldsymbol x_j$, $j=1,\dots N$, of a bandlimited function from given values $\hat{f}(\boldsymbol k)$,…
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are an important tool for performing classification on scattered data, where one usually has to deal with many data points in high-dimensional spaces. We propose solving SVMs in primal form using feature maps…
The problem of fast computation of multivariate kernel density estimation (KDE) is still an open research problem. In our view, the existing solutions do not resolve this matter in a satisfactory way. One of the most elegant and efficient…
We study the Independent Feedback Vertex Set problem - a variant of the classic Feedback Vertex Set problem where, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the problem is to decide whether there exists a vertex set $S\subseteq V(G)$ such that…
Convex-composite optimization, which minimizes an objective function represented by the sum of a differentiable function and a convex one, is widely used in machine learning and signal/image processing. Fast Iterative Shrinkage Thresholding…
The Quantum Fourier Transformation (QFT) is a well-known subroutine for algorithms on qubit-based universal quantum computers. In this work, the known QFT circuit is used to derive an efficient circuit for the multidimensional QFT. The…
The nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) generalizes the FFT to off-grid data. Its many applications include image reconstruction, data analysis, and the numerical solution of differential equations. We present FINUFFT, an efficient…
Object orientation provides a flexible framework for the implementation of the convolution of arbitrary distributions of real-valued random variables. We discuss an algorithm which is based on the discrete Fourier transformation (DFT) and…
We introduce a fast algorithm for computing volume potentials - that is, the convolution of a translation invariant, free-space Green's function with a compactly supported source distribution defined on a uniform grid. The algorithm relies…
In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate numerical method based on Fourier transform to solve Kolmogorov forward equations of symmetric scalar L\'evy processes. The method is based on the accurate numerical formulas for Fourier…
We present a randomized algorithm for solving low-degree polynomial equation systems over finite fields faster than exhaustive search. In order to do so, we follow a line of work by Lokshtanov, Paturi, Tamaki, Williams, and Yu (SODA 2017),…
The ``fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm'', a.k.a. FISTA, is one of the most widely used algorithms in the literature. However, despite its optimal theoretical $O(1/k^2)$ convergence rate guarantee, oftentimes in practice its…