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Broadly applicable quantum advantage, particularly in classical data processing and machine learning, has been a fundamental open problem. In this work, we prove that a small quantum computer of polylogarithmic size can perform large-scale…

A large number of NP-hard graph problems can be solved in $f(w)n^{O(1)}$ time and space when the input graph is provided together with a tree decomposition of width $w$, in many cases with a modest exponential dependence $f(w)$ on $w$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Stefan Kratsch

We reduce the problem of finding an augmenting path in a general graph to a reachability problem in a directed bipartite graph. A slight modification of depth-first search leads to an algorithm for finding such paths. Although this setting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Norbert Blum

We present a general method to convert algorithms into faster algorithms for almost-regular input instances. Informally, an almost-regular input is an input in which the maximum degree is larger than the average degree by at most a constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Or Zamir

We develop a general framework to construct quantum algorithms that detect if a $3$-uniform hypergraph given as input contains a sub-hypergraph isomorphic to a prespecified constant-sized hypergraph. This framework is based on the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 François Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura , Seiichiro Tani

Consider a setting where possibly sensitive information sent over a path in a network is visible to every {neighbor} of the path, i.e., every neighbor of some node on the path, thus including the nodes on the path itself. The exposure of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Shiri Chechik , M. P. Johnson , Merav Parter , David Peleg

Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

The Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization task that can be naturally mapped onto the Ising Hamiltonian of neutral atom quantum processors. Given its connection to NP-hard problems and real-world…

Over the past few years several quantum machine learning algorithms were proposed that promise quantum speed-ups over their classical counterparts. Most of these learning algorithms either assume quantum access to data -- making it unclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Yunchao Liu , Srinivasan Arunachalam , Kristan Temme

Discovering frequent graph patterns in a graph database offers valuable information in a variety of applications. However, if the graph dataset contains sensitive data of individuals such as mobile phone-call graphs and web-click graphs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Entong Shen , Ting Yu

Local search is a widely-employed strategy for finding good solutions to Traveling Salesman Problem. We analyze the problem of determining whether the weight of a given cycle can be decreased by a popular $k$-opt move. Earlier work has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Édouard Bonnet , Yoichi Iwata , Bart M. P. Jansen , Łukasz Kowalik

Given a suitably large and well connected (complex) graph state, any quantum algorithm can be implemented purely through local measurements on the individual qubits. Measurements can also be used to create the graph state: Path erasure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 Earl T. Campbell , Joseph Fitzsimons , Simon C. Benjamin , Pieter Kok

The Travelling Salesman Problem is one of the most famous problems in graph theory. However, little is currently known about the extent to which quantum computers could speed up algorithms for the problem. In this paper, we prove a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Alexandra E. Moylett , Noah Linden , Ashley Montanaro

This paper looks at the task of network topology inference, where the goal is to learn an unknown graph from nodal observations. One of the novelties of the approach put forth is the consideration of prior information about the density of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Samuel Rey , T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

We introduce a new conjecture on the computational hardness of detecting random lifts of graphs: we claim that there is no polynomial-time algorithm that can distinguish between a large random $d$-regular graph and a large random lift of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dmitriy Kunisky , Xifan Yu

The fastest known classical algorithm deciding the $k$-colorability of $n$-vertex graph requires running time $\Omega(2^n)$ for $k\ge 5$. In this work, we present an exponential-space quantum algorithm computing the chromatic number with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kazuya Shimizu , Ryuhei Mori

A quadratic speedup of the quantum adiabatic algorithm (QAA) for finding independent sets (ISs) in a graph is proven analytically. In comparison to the best classical algorithm with $O(n^2)$ scaling, where $n$ is the number of vertexes, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Xianjue Zhao , Peiyun Ge , Li You , Biao Wu

In the past decades for more and more graph classes the Graph Isomorphism Problem was shown to be solvable in polynomial time. An interesting family of graph classes arises from intersection graphs of geometric objects. In this work we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Daniel Neuen

We present a polynomial space Monte Carlo algorithm that given a directed graph on $n$ vertices and average outdegree $\delta$, detects if the graph has a Hamiltonian cycle in $2^{n-\Omega(\frac{n}{\delta})}$ time. This asymptotic scaling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Andreas Björklund

A discrete-time quantum walk on a graph is the repeated application of a unitary evolution operator to a Hilbert space corresponding to the graph. If this unitary evolution operator has an associated group of symmetries, then for certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hari Krovi , Todd A. Brun