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In the tensor completion problem, one seeks to estimate a low-rank tensor based on a random sample of revealed entries. In terms of the required sample size, earlier work revealed a large gap between estimation with unbounded computational…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Andrea Montanari , Nike Sun

A number of recent works have studied algorithms for entrywise $\ell_p$-low rank approximation, namely, algorithms which given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$ (with $n \geq d$), output a rank-$k$ matrix $B$ minimizing…

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Tensor network contraction is a powerful computational tool in quantum many-body physics, quantum information and quantum chemistry. The complexity of contracting a tensor network is thought to mainly depend on its entanglement properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jiaqing Jiang , Jielun Chen , Norbert Schuch , Dominik Hangleiter

We study a variant of the sparse PCA (principal component analysis) problem in the "hard" regime, where the inference task is possible yet no polynomial-time algorithm is known to exist. Prior work, based on the low-degree likelihood ratio,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Gérard Ben Arous , Alexander S. Wein , Ilias Zadik

This paper presents a new extension of the classical Heron problem, termed the generalized $(k,m)$-Heron problem, which seeks an optimal configuration among $k$ feasible and $m$ target non-empty closed convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Triloki Nath , Manohar Choudhary , Ram K. Pandey

Square Wave Perceptrons (SWPs) form a class of neural network models with oscillating activation function that exhibit intriguing ``hardness'' properties in the high-dimensional limit at a fixed constraint density $\alpha = O(1)$. In this…

Many problems are NP-hard and, unless P = NP, do not admit polynomial-time exact algorithms. The fastest known exact algorithms exactly usually take time exponential in the input size. Much research effort has gone into obtaining faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Stefan Kratsch , Pascal Kunz

We define a new large $N$ limit for general $\text{O}(N)^{R}$ or $\text{U}(N)^{R}$ invariant tensor models, based on an enhanced large $N$ scaling of the coupling constants. The resulting large $N$ expansion is organized in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-23 Frank Ferrari , Vincent Rivasseau , Guillaume Valette

We consider the problem of estimating a large rank-one tensor ${\boldsymbol u}^{\otimes k}\in({\mathbb R}^{n})^{\otimes k}$, $k\ge 3$ in Gaussian noise. Earlier work characterized a critical signal-to-noise ratio $\lambda_{Bayes}= O(1)$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Gerard Ben Arous , Song Mei , Andrea Montanari , Mihai Nica

We present a comprehensive end-to-end quantum algorithm for tensor problems, including tensor PCA and planted kXOR, that achieves potential superquadratic quantum speedups over classical methods. We build upon prior works by…

Noisy $k$-XOR is a basic average-case inference problem in which one observes random noisy $k$-ary parity constraints and seeks to recover, or more weakly, detect, a hidden Boolean assignment. A central question is to characterize the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Songtao Mao

Counting small patterns in a large dataset is a fundamental algorithmic task. The most common version of this task is subgraph/homomorphism counting, wherein we count the number of occurrences of a small pattern graph $H$ in an input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

We consider the minimum vertex cover problem in hypergraphs in which every hyperedge has size k (also known as minimum hitting set problem, or minimum set cover with element frequency k). Simple algorithms exist that provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Jean Cardinal , Marek Karpinski , Richard Schmied , Claus Viehmann

In the noisy tensor completion problem we observe $m$ entries (whose location is chosen uniformly at random) from an unknown $n_1 \times n_2 \times n_3$ tensor $T$. We assume that $T$ is entry-wise close to being rank $r$. Our goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Boaz Barak , Ankur Moitra

In this paper, we investigate the sample size requirement for a general class of nuclear norm minimization methods for higher order tensor completion. We introduce a class of tensor norms by allowing for different levels of coherence, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Ming Yuan , Cun-Hui Zhang

High-order tensor methods that employ local Taylor models of degree $p$ within adaptive regularization frameworks (AR$p$) have recently received significant attention, due to their optimal/improved global and local rates of convergence, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Coralia Cartis , Raphael Hauser , Yang Liu , Karl Welzel , Wenqi Zhu

We consider the problem of learning high dimensional polynomial transformations of Gaussians. Given samples of the form $p(x)$, where $x\sim N(0, \mathrm{Id}_r)$ is hidden and $p: \mathbb{R}^r \to \mathbb{R}^d$ is a function where every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Sitan Chen , Jerry Li , Yuanzhi Li , Anru R. Zhang

Tensor PCA is a stylized statistical inference problem introduced by Montanari and Richard to study the computational difficulty of estimating an unknown parameter from higher-order moment tensors. Unlike its matrix counterpart, Tensor PCA…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Rishabh Dudeja , Daniel Hsu

Let $A_N$ be distributed according to the Haar probability measure on the orthogonal group $\mathscr{O}(N)$ for each $N\in\mathbb{N}$. It is well-known that the upper left $m_N\times k_N$ block of $\sqrt{N}A_N$ with $m_Nk_N = o(N)$…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Philipp Tuchel

In the area of parameterized complexity, to cope with NP-Hard problems, we introduce a parameter k besides the input size n, and we aim to design algorithms (called FPT algorithms) that run in O(f(k)n^d) time for some function f(k) and…

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