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Collective entity disambiguation aims to jointly resolve multiple mentions by linking them to their associated entities in a knowledge base. Previous works are primarily based on the underlying assumption that entities within the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Minh C. Phan , Aixin Sun , Yi Tay , Jialong Han , Chenliang Li

Exact-binary encoding compiles a discrete cost function network (CFN) into a higher-order unconstrained binary optimization (HUBO) problem whose maximum monomial degree grows with the cardinalities of the underlying CFN variables. Given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tristan Zaborniak

We study a hypothesis testing problem in which data is compressed distributively and sent to a detector that seeks to decide between two possible distributions for the data. The aim is to characterize all achievable encoding rates and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Md. Saifur Rahman , Aaron B. Wagner

Since the Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is one of the main NP-hard problems, a lot of approximation algorithms have been suggested for it. It has been proven that the best algorithm for BPP has the approximation ratio of 3/2 and the time order…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan

In the classical best approximation pair (BAP) problem, one is given two nonempty, closed, convex and disjoint subsets in a finite- or an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, and the goal is to find a pair of points, each from each subset,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Daniel Reem , Yair Censor

We show that if DTIME[2^O(n)] is not included in DSPACE[2^o(n)], then, for every set B in PSPACE/poly, all strings x in B of length n can be represented by a string compressed(x) of length at most log(|B^{=n}|)+O(log n), such that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-04 N. V. Vinodchandran , Marius Zimand

One of the most famous and investigated lossless data-compression scheme is the one introduced by Lempel and Ziv about 40 years ago. This compression scheme is known as "dictionary-based compression" and consists of squeezing an input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-07 Paolo Ferragina , Igor Nitto , Rossano Venturini

Synchronization codes are frequently used in numerical data transmission and storage. Compression by Substring Enumeration (CSE) is a new lossless compression scheme that has turned into a new and unusual application for synchronization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Dany Vohl , Claude-Guy Quimper , Danny Dubé

Tokenization is a crucial step in information retrieval, especially for lexical matching algorithms, where the quality of indexable tokens directly impacts the effectiveness of a retrieval system. Since different languages have unique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Odunayo Ogundepo , Xinyu Zhang , Jimmy Lin

In this work we advance the understanding of the fundamental limits of computation for Binary Polynomial Optimization (BPO), which is the problem of maximizing a given polynomial function over all binary points. In our main result we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alberto Del Pia , Silvia Di Gregorio

Mixture proportion estimation (MPE) is the problem of estimating the weight of a component distribution in a mixture, given samples from the mixture and component. This problem constitutes a key part in many "weakly supervised learning"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Harish G. Ramaswamy , Clayton Scott , Ambuj Tewari

This paper presents a novel hybrid tokenization strategy that enhances the performance of DNA Language Models (DLMs) by combining 6-mer tokenization with Byte Pair Encoding (BPE-600). Traditional k-mer tokenization is effective at capturing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ganesh Sapkota , Md Hasibur Rahman

Byte-level fallbacks for subword tokenization have become a common practice in large language models. In particular, it has been demonstrated to be incredibly effective as a pragmatic solution for preventing OOV, especially in the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sangwhan Moon , Tatsuya Hiraoka , Naoaki Okazaki

The electron pair approximation offers a resource efficient variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) approach for quantum chemistry simulations on quantum computers. With the number of entangling gates scaling quadratically with system size…

Sparse coding is a crucial subroutine in algorithms for various signal processing, deep learning, and other machine learning applications. The central goal is to learn an overcomplete dictionary that can sparsely represent a given input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Thanh V. Nguyen , Raymond K. W. Wong , Chinmay Hegde

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed to achieve the lowest possible distortion at a given bit rate. However, recent studies show that pursuing high perceptual quality would lead to increase of the lowest achievable distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zeyu Yan , Fei Wen , Rendong Ying , Chao Ma , Peilin Liu

This article considers the problem of delay optimal bundling of the input symbols into transmit packets in the entry point of a wireless sensor network such that the link delay is minimized under an arbitrary arrival rate and a given…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Ali Abedi

Binary embeddings provide efficient and powerful ways to perform operations on large scale data. However binary embedding typically requires long codes in order to preserve the discriminative power of the input space. Thus binary coding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Felix X. Yu , Aditya Bhaskara , Sanjiv Kumar , Yunchao Gong , Shih-Fu Chang

A prescription to calculate the minimum number of bits needed for binary strip detector readout is presented. This permits a systematic analysis of the readout efficiency relative to this theoretical minimum number of bits. Different level…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Maurice Garcia-Sciveres , Xinkang Wang

Packet networks need to maintain state in the form of forwarding tables at each switch. The cost of this state increases as networks support ever more sophisticated per-flow routing, traffic engineering, and service chaining. Per-flow or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Adiseshu Hari , Urs Niesen , Gordon Wilfong