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For sets $A, B\subset \mathbb N$, their sumset is $A + B := \{a+b: a\in A, b\in B\}$. If we cannot write a set $C$ as $C = A+B$ with $|A|, |B|\geq 2$, then we say that $C$ is $\textit{irreducible}$. The question of whether a given set $C$…

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Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Frederic Koehler , Elchanan Mossel

Evaluating a polynomial on a set of points is a fundamental task in computer algebra. In this work, we revisit a particular variant called trimmed multipoint evaluation: given an $n$-variate polynomial with bounded individual degree $d$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nick Fischer , Melvin Kallmayer , Leo Wennmann

Dropout has been witnessed with great success in training deep neural networks by independently zeroing out the outputs of neurons at random. It has also received a surge of interest for shallow learning, e.g., logistic regression. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Zhe Li , Boqing Gong , Tianbao Yang

Over the past decade, the low-degree heuristic has been used to estimate the algorithmic thresholds for a wide range of average-case planted vs null distinguishing problems. Such results rely on the hypothesis that if the low-degree moments…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Daniel M. Kane , Pravesh K. Kothari , Jerry Li , Sidhanth Mohanty , Stefan Tiegel

The aim of the paper is to produce new families of irreducible polynomials, generalizing previous results in the area. One example of our general result is that for a near-separated polynomial, i.e., polynomials of the form…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Jaime Gutierrez , Jorge Jimenez Urroz

We design the first efficient polynomial identity testing algorithms over the nonassociative polynomial algebra. In particular, multiplication among the formal variables is commutative but it is not associative. This complements the strong…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Partha Mukhopadhyay , C Ramya , Pratik Shastri

We construct explicit pseudorandom generators that fool $n$-variate polynomials of degree at most $d$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. The seed length of our generators is $O(d \log n + \log q)$, over fields of size exponential in $d$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ashish Dwivedi , Zeyu Guo , Ben Lee Volk

A result of Hoskins and Steinerberger [Int. Math. Res. Not., (13):9784-9809, 2022] states that repeatedly differentiating a random polynomials with independent and identically distributed mean zero and variance one roots will result, after…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Octavio Arizmendi , Andrew Campbell , Katsunori Fujie

For a polynomial in several variables depending on some parameters, we discuss some results to the effect that for almost all values of the parameters the polynomial is irreducible. In particular we recast in this perspective some results…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Arnaud Bodin , Pierre Dèbes , Salah Najib

We use tools of additive combinatorics for the study of subvarieties defined by {\it high rank} families of polynomials in high dimensional $\mathbb{F} _q$-vector spaces. In the first, analytic part of the paper we prove a number properties…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-20 David Kazhdan , Tamar Ziegler

Given n polynomials in n variables of respective degrees d_1,...,d_n, and a set of monomials of cardinality d_1...d_n, we give an explicit subresultant-based polynomial expression in the coefficients of the input polynomials whose…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carlos D'Andrea , Gabriela Jeronimo

The promise of lifted probabilistic inference is to carry out probabilistic inference in a relational probabilistic model without needing to reason about each individual separately (grounding out the representation) by treating the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-22 David Poole , Fahiem Bacchus , Jacek Kisynski

There has been significant progress in the study of sampling discretization of integral norms for both a designated finite-dimensional function space and a finite collection of such function spaces (universal discretization). Sampling…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 F. Dai , V. Temlyakov

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm for performing linear or polynomial regression resilient to adversarial corruptions in both examples and labels. Given a sufficiently large (polynomial-size) training set drawn i.i.d. from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Adam Klivans , Pravesh K. Kothari , Raghu Meka

We give upper bounds on the numbers of various classes of polynomials reducible over the integers and over integers modulo a prime and on the number of matrices in SL(n), GL(n) and Sp(2n) with reducible characteristic polynomials, and on…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Igor Rivin

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…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-05-12 Eduardo Gueron

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are a class of generative models which have recently been shown to produce excellent samples. We show that with a few simple modifications, DDPMs can also achieve competitive log-likelihoods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Alex Nichol , Prafulla Dhariwal

We obtain new explicit pseudorandom generators for several computational models involving groups. Our main results are as follows: 1. We consider read-once group-products over a finite group $G$, i.e., tests of the form $\prod_{i=1}^n…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chin Ho Lee , Emanuele Viola

We study the family of intersection graphs of low density objects in low dimensional Euclidean space. This family is quite general, and includes planar graphs. We prove that such graphs have small separators. Next, we present efficient…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Sariel Har-Peled , Kent Quanrud