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The efficient sparse coding and reconstruction of signal vectors via linear observations has received a tremendous amount of attention over the last decade. In this context, the automated learning of a suitable basis or overcomplete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Andreas M. Tillmann

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a vector that can be written as a nonnegative integer linear combination of given 0-1 vectors, the generators, such that the l_1-distance between this vector and a given target vector is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-03-12 Celine Engelbeen , Samuel Fiorini , Antje Kiesel

Sparse inverse covariance selection is a fundamental problem for analyzing dependencies in high dimensional data. However, such a problem is difficult to solve since it is NP-hard. Existing solutions are primarily based on convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Ganzhao Yuan , Haoxian Tan , Wei-Shi Zheng

We prove new hardness results for fundamental lattice problems under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). Building on a recent breakthrough by Bitansky et al.\ \cite{BHIRW24}, who gave a polynomial-time reduction from $\mathsf{3SAT}$ to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Divesh Aggarwal , Rishav Gupta , Aditya Morolia , Chuanqi Zhang

Blomer and Naewe[BN09] modified the randomized sieving algorithm of Ajtai, Kumar and Sivakumar[AKS01] to solve the shortest vector problem (SVP). The algorithm starts with $N = 2^{O(n)}$ randomly chosen vectors in the lattice and employs a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Divesh Aggarwal , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

Lattice-based cryptography has recently emerged as a prime candidate for efficient and secure post-quantum cryptography. The two main hard problems underlying its security are the shortest vector problem (SVP) and the closest vector problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Thijs Laarhoven

In this work, we exhibit a hierarchy of polynomial time algorithms solving approximate variants of the Closest Vector Problem (CVP). Our first contribution is a heuristic algorithm achieving the same distance tradeoff as HSVP algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Thomas Espitau , Paul Kirchner

In this paper, we introduce the Maximum Distance Sublattice Problem (MDSP). We observed that the problem of solving an instance of the Closest Vector Problem (CVP) in a lattice $\mathcal{L}$ is the same as solving an instance of MDSP in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rajendra Kumar , Shashank K Mehta , Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree

Inspired by recent work on convex formulations of clustering (Lashkari & Golland, 2008; Nowozin & Bakir, 2008) we investigate a new formulation of the Sparse Coding Problem (Olshausen & Field, 1997). In sparse coding we attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 David M. Bradley , J Andrew Bagnell

In this paper we are interested in a version of the All-pairs Shortest Paths problem (APSP) that fits neither in the exact nor in the approximate case. We define a measure of centrality of a shortest path, related to the ``importance'' of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Alane M. de Lima , Murilo V. G. da Silva , André L. Vignatti

Efficiently solving the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) in two-dimensional lattices holds practical significance in cryptography and computational geometry. While simpler than its high-dimensional counterpart, two-dimensional SVP motivates…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Lihao Zhao , Chengliang Tian , Jingguo Bi , Guangwu Xu , Jia Yu

The shortest vector problem (SVP) over ideal lattices is closely related to the Ring-LWE problem, which is widely used to build post-quantum cryptosystems. Power-of-two cyclotomic fields are frequently adopted to instantiate Ring-LWE. Pan…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gaohao Cui , Jianing Li , Jincheng Zhuang

Discrete Morse theory has emerged as a powerful tool for a wide range of problems, including the computation of (persistent) homology. In this context, discrete Morse theory is used to reduce the problem of computing a topological invariant…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Ulrich Bauer , Abhishek Rathod

The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Victor Magron , Jie Wang

The problem of finding short vectors in Euclidean lattices is a central hard problem in complexity theory. The case of module lattices (i.e., lattices which are also modules over a number ring) is of particular interest for cryptography and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Koen de Boer , Aurel Page , Radu Toma , Benjamin Wesolowski

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm for the closest vector problem for all l_p-norms, 1 < p < \infty, and all polyhedral norms, especially for the l_1-norm and the l_{\infty}-norm. We achieve our results by introducing a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Johannes Blömer , Stefanie Naewe

Lattice-based cryptography has emerged as one of the most prominent candidates for post-quantum cryptography, projected to be secure against the imminent threat of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. The Shortest Vector Problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Júlia Barberà-Rodríguez , Nicolas Gama , Anand Kumar Narayanan , David Joseph

We study the approximability of two related problems on graphs with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges: $n$-Pairs Shortest Paths ($n$-PSP), where the goal is to find a shortest path between $O(n)$ prespecified pairs, and All Node Shortest Cycles…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

Sparse linear regression is the well-studied inference problem where one is given a design matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{M\times N}$ and a response vector $\mathbf{b} \in \mathbb{R}^M$, and the goal is to find a solution $\mathbf{x}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Aparna Gupte , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

The rapid developing area of compressed sensing suggests that a sparse vector lying in an arbitrary high dimensional space can be accurately recovered from only a small set of non-adaptive linear measurements. Under appropriate conditions…

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