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We show polynomial-time quantum algorithms for the following problems: (*) Short integer solution (SIS) problem under the infinity norm, where the public matrix is very wide, the modulus is a polynomially large prime, and the bound of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Yilei Chen , Qipeng Liu , Mark Zhandry

Subset Sum is a classical optimization problem taught to undergraduates as an example of an NP-hard problem, which is amenable to dynamic programming, yielding polynomial running time if the input numbers are relatively small. Formally,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Konstantinos Koiliaris , Chao Xu

The quest for a polynomial time algorithm for solving parity games gained momentum in 2017 when two different quasipolynomial time algorithms were constructed. In this paper, we further analyse the second algorithm due to Jurdzi\'nski and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Nathanaël Fijalkow

In this paper, we consider the generalized min-sum set cover problem, introduced by Azar, Gamzu, and Yin. Bansal, Gupta, and Krishnaswamy give a 485-approximation algorithm for the problem. We are able to alter their algorithm and analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Martin Skutella , David P. Williamson

We reexamine the classical subset sum problem: given a set $X$ of $n$ positive integers and a number $t$, decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ that sums to $t$; or more generally, compute the set $\mbox{out}$ of all numbers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Timothy M. Chan

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

In the average-case $k$-SUM problem, given $r$ integers chosen uniformly at random from $\{0,\dots,M-1\}$, the objective is to find a ``solution'' set of $k$ numbers that sum to $0$ modulo $M$. In the dense regime of $M \leq r^k$, where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Shweta Agrawal , Sagnik Saha , Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach , and Akhil Vanukuri , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Given a set (or multiset) S of n numbers and a target number t, the subset sum problem is to decide if there is a subset of S that sums up to t. There are several methods for solving this problem, including exhaustive search,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Zhengjun Cao , Lihua Liu

This paper studies the lattice agreement problem and the generalized lattice agreement problem in distributed message passing systems. In the lattice agreement problem, given input values from a lattice, processes have to non-trivially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Xiong Zheng , Changyong Hu , Vijay K. Garg

Lloyd's algorithm is an iterative method that solves the quantization problem, i.e. the approximation of a target probability measure by a discrete one, and is particularly used in digital applications. This algorithm can be interpreted as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Léo Portales , Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels

Reducing the conditions under which a given set satisfies the stipulations of the subset sum proposition to a set of linear relationships, the question of whether a set satisfies subset sum may be answered in a polynomial number of steps by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Aubrey Alston

We present an $\mathcal{O}^\star(2^{0.5n})$ time and $\mathcal{O}^\star(2^{0.249999n})$ space randomized algorithm for solving worst-case Subset Sum instances with $n$ integers. This is the first improvement over the long-standing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jesper Nederlof , Karol Węgrzycki

This paper presents a deterministic, strongly polynomial time algorithm for computing the matrix rank for a class of symbolic matrices (whose entries are polynomials over a field). This class was introduced, in a different language, by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Orit E. Raz , Avi Wigderson

The generalized smooth condition, $(L_{0},L_{1})$-smoothness, has triggered people's interest since it is more realistic in many optimization problems shown by both empirical and theoretical evidence. Two recent works established the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zijian Liu , Srikanth Jagabathula , Zhengyuan Zhou

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a cornerstone principle in the probabilistic method of combinatorics, and a seminal algorithm of Moser & Tardos (2010) provides an efficient randomized algorithm to implement it. This can be parallelized…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Bernhard Haeupler , David G. Harris

Variable selection is an old and pervasive problem in regression analysis. One solution is to impose a lasso penalty to shrink parameter estimates toward zero and perform continuous model selection. The lasso-penalized mixture of linear…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-04 Luke R. Lloyd-Jones , Hien D. Nguyen , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

As a typical application, the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz lattice basis reduction algorithm (LLL) is used to compute a reduced basis of the orthogonal lattice for a given integer matrix, via reducing a special kind of lattice bases. With such…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jingwei Chen , Damien Stehlé , Gilles Villard

The low-degree polynomial framework has been highly successful in predicting computational versus statistical gaps for high-dimensional problems in average-case analysis and machine learning. This success has led to the low-degree…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 He Jia , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study the parameterized complexity of algorithmic problems whose input is an integer set $A$ in terms of the doubling constant $C := |A + A|/|A|$, a fundamental measure of additive structure. We present evidence that this new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tim Randolph , Karol Węgrzycki

Since the invention of the famous LLL algorithm, lattice reduction has been an extremely useful tool in computational number theory. By construction, the LLL algorithm deals with lattices living in a vector space endowed with a positive…

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