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Given $N$ instances $(X_1,t_1),\ldots,(X_N,t_N)$ of Subset Sum, the AND Subset Sum problem asks to determine whether all of these instances are yes-instances; that is, whether each set of integers $X_i$ has a subset that sums up to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann , Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

Subset Sum Ratio is the following optimization problem: Given a set of $n$ positive numbers $I$, find disjoint subsets $X,Y \subseteq I$ minimizing the ratio $\max\{\Sigma(X)/\Sigma(Y),\Sigma(Y)/\Sigma(X)\}$, where $\Sigma(Z)$ denotes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Karl Bringmann

Given n positive integers, the Modular Subset Sum problem asks if a subset adds up to a given target t modulo a given integer m. This is a natural generalization of the Subset Sum problem (where m=+\infty) with ties to additive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kyriakos Axiotis , Arturs Backurs , Christos Tzamos

Approximating Subset Sum is a classic and fundamental problem in computer science and mathematical optimization. The state-of-the-art approximation scheme for Subset Sum computes a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

Subset-Sum is an NP-complete problem where one must decide if a multiset of $n$ integers contains a subset whose elements sum to a target value $m$. The best-known classical and quantum algorithms run in time $\tilde{O}(2^{n/2})$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Jonathan Allcock , Yassine Hamoudi , Antoine Joux , Felix Klingelhöfer , Miklos Santha

We study \emph{sublinear} algorithms that solve linear systems locally. In the classical version of this problem the input is a matrix $S\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ and a vector $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ in the range of $S$, and the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Alexandr Andoni , Robert Krauthgamer , Yosef Pogrow

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

We investigate pseudopolynomial-time algorithms for Bounded Knapsack and Bounded Subset Sum. Recent years have seen a growing interest in settling their fine-grained complexity with respect to various parameters. For Bounded Knapsack, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Lin Chen , Jiayi Lian , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

A major goal in the area of exact exponential algorithms is to give an algorithm for the (worst-case) $n$-input Subset Sum problem that runs in time $2^{(1/2 - c)n}$ for some constant $c>0$. In this paper we give a Subset Sum algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xi Chen , Yaonan Jin , Tim Randolph , Rocco A. Servedio

We study a broad class of algorithmic problems with an "additive flavor" such as computing sumsets, 3SUM, Subset Sum and geometric pattern matching. Our starting point is that these problems can often be solved efficiently for integers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nick Fischer

Knapsack and Subset Sum are fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Recently there has been a growing interest in understanding the best possible pseudopolynomial running times for these problems with respect to various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Adam Polak , Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

We investigate the approximation for computing the sum $a_1+...+a_n$ with an input of a list of nonnegative elements $a_1,..., a_n$. If all elements are in the range $[0,1]$, there is a randomized algorithm that can compute an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Bin Fu , Wenfeng Li , Zhiyong Peng

We revisit the 3SUM problem in the \emph{preprocessed universes} setting. We present an algorithm that, given three sets $A$, $B$, $C$ of $n$ integers, preprocesses them in quadratic time, so that given any subsets $A' \subseteq A$, $B'…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Shashwat Kasliwal , Adam Polak , Pratyush Sharma

The efficiency of exact subset sum problem algorithms which compute individual subset sums is defined as $e=min(T/z, 1)$, where $z$ is the number of subset sums computed. $e$ is related to these algorithms' computational complexity. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nick Dawes

More than 40 years ago, Schroeppel and Shamir presented an algorithm that solves the Subset Sum problem for $n$ integers in time $O^*(2^{0.5n})$ and space $O^*(2^{0.25n})$. The time upper bound remains unbeaten, but the space upper bound…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Tatiana Belova , Nikolai Chukhin , Alexander S. Kulikov , Ivan Mihajlin

This paper introduces a deterministic algorithm for solving an instance of the Subset Sum Problem based on a new method entitled the Bipartite Synthesis Method. The algorithm is described and shown to have worst-case limiting performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Scott Lilienthal

Given a multiset $X=\{x_1,..., x_n\}$ of real numbers, the {\it floating-point set summation} problem asks for $S_n=x_1+...+x_n$. Let $E^*_n$ denote the minimum worst-case error over all possible orderings of evaluating $S_n$. We prove that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-21 Ming-Yang Kao , Jie Wang

Existence of long arithmetic progression in sumsets and subset sums has been studied extensively in the field of additive combinatorics. These additive combinatorics results play a central role in the recent progress of fundamental problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Lin Chen , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

In the subset sum problem we are given n positive integers along with a target integer t. A solution is a subset of these integers summing to t. In this short note we show that for a given subset sum instance there is a proof of size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Jesper Nederlof

In the Equal-Subset-Sum problem, we are given a set $S$ of $n$ integers and the problem is to decide if there exist two disjoint nonempty subsets $A,B \subseteq S$, whose elements sum up to the same value. The problem is NP-complete. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Marcin Mucha , Jesper Nederlof , Jakub Pawlewicz , Karol Węgrzycki