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We announce two breakthrough results concerning important questions in the Theory of Computational Complexity. In this expository paper, a systematic and comprehensive geometric characterization of the Subset Sum Problem is presented. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Srinivas Balaji Bollepalli

We investigate pseudo-polynomial time algorithms for Subset Sum. Given a multi-set $X$ of $n$ positive integers and a target $t$, Subset Sum asks whether some subset of $X$ sums to $t$. Bringmann proposes an $\tilde{O}(n + t)$-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Lin Chen , Jiayi Lian , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

The usefulness of parameterized algorithmics has often depended on what Niedermeier has called, "the art of problem parameterization". In this paper we introduce and explore a novel but general form of parameterization: the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Michael R. Fellows , Serge Gaspers , Frances A. Rosamond

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

This paper presents a fully hardware synchronized mapping robot with support for a hardware synchronized external tracking system, for super-precise timing and localization. We also employ a professional, static 3D scanner for ground truth…

The problem of exactly summing n floating-point numbers is a fundamental problem that has many applications in large-scale simulations and computational geometry. Unfortunately, due to the round-off error in standard floating-point…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Michael T. Goodrich , Ahmed Eldawy

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

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

Given a multiset $A = \{a_1, \dots, a_n\}$ of positive integers and a target integer $t$, the Subset Sum problem asks if there is a subset of $A$ that sums to $t$. Bellman's [1957] classical dynamic programming algorithm runs in $O(nt)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Thejas Radhika Sajith

We consider two problems that arise in machine learning applications: the problem of recovering a planted sparse vector in a random linear subspace and the problem of decomposing a random low-rank overcomplete 3-tensor. For both problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Samuel B. Hopkins , Tselil Schramm , Jonathan Shi , David Steurer

In seeking out an algorithm to test out the capability of the IBM Quantum Experience quantum computer, we were given a review paper covering various algorithms for solving the subset-sum problem, including both classical and quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-09 David Gunter , Toks Adedoyin

Real-time rendering for video games has become increasingly challenging due to the need for higher resolutions, framerates and photorealism. Supersampling has emerged as an effective solution to address this challenge. Our work introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Antoine Mercier , Ruan Erasmus , Yashesh Savani , Manik Dhingra , Fatih Porikli , Guillaume Berger

The Subset Sum problem, which asks whether a set of $n$ integers has a subset summing to a target $t$, is a fundamental NP-complete problem in cryptography and combinatorial optimization. The classical meet-in-the-middle (MIM) algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jesus Salas

The 3SUM problem is to decide, given a set of $n$ real numbers, whether any three sum to zero. It is widely conjectured that a trivial $O(n^2)$-time algorithm is optimal and over the years the consequences of this conjecture have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Allan Grønlund , Seth Pettie

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

As one of the three main pillars of fine-grained complexity theory, the 3SUM problem explains the hardness of many diverse polynomial-time problems via fine-grained reductions. Many of these reductions are either directly based on or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Nick Fischer , Piotr Kaliciak , Adam Polak

We examine the complexity of the online Dictionary Matching with One Gap Problem (DMOG) which is the following. Preprocess a dictionary $D$ of $d$ patterns, where each pattern contains a special gap symbol that can match any string, so that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Amihood Amir , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Avivit Levy , Seth Pettie , Ely Porat , B. Riva Shalom

A coreset (or core-set) of an input set is its small summation, such that solving a problem on the coreset as its input, provably yields the same result as solving the same problem on the original (full) set, for a given family of problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ibrahim Jubran , Alaa Maalouf , Dan Feldman

The $3$SUM hypothesis, the APSP hypothesis and SETH are the three main hypotheses in fine-grained complexity. So far, within the area, the first two hypotheses have mainly been about integer inputs in the Word RAM model of computation. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Timothy M. Chan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

Solving random subset sum instances plays an important role in constructing cryptographic systems. For the random subset sum problem, in 2013 Bernstein et al. proposed a quantum algorithm with heuristic time complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yang Li , Hongbo Li