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It is well known that sparse approximation problem is \textsf{NP}-hard under general dictionaries. Several algorithms have been devised and analyzed in the past decade under various assumptions on the \emph{coherence} $\mu$ of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Ali Çivril

van Emde Boas (1981) conjectured that computing a shortest non-zero vector of a lattice in an Euclidean space is NP-hard. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture is true and hence de-randomize the classical randomness result of Ajtai…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Daqing Wan

We study beyond worst-case dimensionality reduction for $s$-sparse vectors. Our work is divided into two parts, each focusing on a different facet of beyond worst-case analysis: We first consider average-case guarantees. A folklore upper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sandeep Silwal , David P. Woodruff , Qiuyi Zhang

We show conditional hardness of Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANN) under the $\ell_\infty$ norm with two simple reductions. Our first reduction shows that hardness of a special case of the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP), which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Young Kun Ko , Min Jae Song

In this work, we give provable sieving algorithms for the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) and the Closest Vector Problem (CVP) on lattices in $\ell_p$ norm ($1\leq p\leq\infty$). The running time we obtain is better than existing provable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

The most important computational problem on lattices is the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP). In this paper, we present new algorithms that improve the state-of-the-art for provable classical/quantum algorithms for SVP. We present the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Divesh Aggarwal , Yanlin Chen , Rajendra Kumar , Yixin Shen

$ \newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} \newcommand{\problem}[1]{\ensuremath{\mathrm{#1}} } \newcommand{\CVP}{\problem{CVP}} \newcommand{\SVP}{\problem{SVP}} \newcommand{\CVPP}{\problem{CVPP}} \newcommand{\ensuremath}[1]{#1} $For odd integers $p…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Huck Bennett , Alexander Golovnev , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

The problem of approximating a dense matrix by a product of sparse factors is a fundamental problem for many signal processing and machine learning tasks. It can be decomposed into two subproblems: finding the position of the non-zero…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Quoc-Tung Le , Elisa Riccietti , Rémi Gribonval

We give several improvements on the known hardness of the unique shortest vector problem. - We give a deterministic reduction from the shortest vector problem to the unique shortest vector problem. As a byproduct, we get deterministic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Divesh Aggarwal , Chandan Dubey

We give a $2^{n+o(n)}$-time and space randomized algorithm for solving the exact Closest Vector Problem (CVP) on $n$-dimensional Euclidean lattices. This improves on the previous fastest algorithm, the deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Divesh Aggarwal , Daniel Dadush , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

One important question in the theory of lattices is to detect a shortest vector: given a norm and a lattice, what is the smallest norm attained by a non-zero vector contained in the lattice? We focus on the infinity norm and work with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Stefan Kuhlmann , Robert Weismantel

We study geometric variations of the discriminating code problem. In the \emph{discrete version} of the problem, a finite set of points $P$ and a finite set of objects $S$ are given in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The objective is to choose a subset…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Sanjana Dey , Florent Foucaud , Subhas C Nandy , Arunabha Sen

We explore algorithms and limitations for sparse optimization problems such as sparse linear regression and robust linear regression. The goal of the sparse linear regression problem is to identify a small number of key features, while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Eric Price , Sandeep Silwal , Samson Zhou

The Super-SAT or SSAT problem was introduced by Dinur et al.(2002,2003) to prove the NP-hardness of approximation of two popular lattice problems - Shortest Vector Problem(SVP) and Closest Vector Problem(CVP). They conjectured that SSAT is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

We show improved fine-grained hardness of two key lattice problems in the $\ell_p$ norm: Bounded Distance Decoding to within an $\alpha$ factor of the minimum distance ($\mathrm{BDD}_{p, \alpha}$) and the (decisional) $\gamma$-approximate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Huck Bennett , Chris Peikert , Yi Tang

We address the problem of recovering a sparse $n$-vector within a given subspace. This problem is a subtask of some approaches to dictionary learning and sparse principal component analysis. Hence, if we can prove scaling laws for recovery…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Laurent Demanet , Paul Hand

We present a substantially more efficient variant, both in terms of running time and size of preprocessing advice, of the algorithm by Liu, Lyubashevsky, and Micciancio for solving CVPP (the preprocessing version of the Closest Vector…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Daniel Dadush , Oded Regev , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a small number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In this paper, the high-dimensional setting is considered. It is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

In the subspace approximation problem, we seek a k-dimensional subspace F of R^d that minimizes the sum of p-th powers of Euclidean distances to a given set of n points a_1, ..., a_n in R^d, for p >= 1. More generally than minimizing sum_i…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Kenneth L. Clarkson , David P. Woodruff

Let $L$ be a lattice of full rank in $n$-dimensional real space. A vector in $L$ is called $i$-sparse if it has no more than $i$ nonzero coordinates. We define the $i$-th successive sparsity level of $L$, $s_i(L)$, to be the minimal $s$ so…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Lenny Fukshansky , Pavel Guerzhoy , Stefan Kuehnlein