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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

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 subset sum problem (SSP) can be briefly stated as: given a target integer $E$ and a set $A$ containing $n$ positive integer $a_j$, find a subset of $A$ summing to $E$. The \textit{density} $d$ of an SSP instance is defined by the ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-06-23 Changlin Wan , Zhongzhi Shi

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

We study pseudo-polynomial time algorithms for the fundamental \emph{0-1 Knapsack} problem. In terms of $n$ and $w_{\max}$, previous algorithms for 0-1 Knapsack have cubic time complexities: $O(n^2w_{\max})$ (Bellman 1957), $O(nw_{\max}^2)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ce Jin

The subset sum problem is known to be an NP-hard problem in the field of computer science with the fastest known approach having a run-time complexity of $O(2^{0.3113n})$. A modified version of this problem is known as the perfect sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kristof Pusztai

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

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sujoy Bhore , Maike Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Ce Jin , André Nusser , Carolin Rehs

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

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

The bin packing problem is to find the minimum number of bins of size one to pack a list of items with sizes $a_1,..., a_n$ in $(0,1]$. Using uniform sampling, which selects a random element from the input list each time, we develop a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-25 Richard Beigel , Bin Fu

Given a set of $n$ input integers, the Equal Subset Sum problem asks us to find two distinct subsets with the same sum. In this paper we present an algorithm that runs in time $O^*(3^{0.387n})$ in the~average case, significantly improving…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Xi Chen , Yaonan Jin , Tim Randolph , Rocco A. Servedio

We show how to solve a number of problems in numerical linear algebra, such as least squares regression, $\ell_p$-regression for any $p \geq 1$, low rank approximation, and kernel regression, in time $T(A) \poly(\log(nd))$, where for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Xiaofei Shi , David P. Woodruff

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

We present a polynomial time algorithm, which solves a nonstandard Variation of the well-known PARTITION-problem: Given positive integers $n, k$ and $t$ such that $t \geq n$ and $k \cdot t = {n+1 \choose 2}$, the algorithm partitions the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alexander Büchel , Ulrich Gilleßen , Kurt-Ulrich Witt

This paper presents a deterministic algorithmic approach of exploring the solution space of the Subset Sum Problem. The algorithm presented is input-robust and structurally adaptive. Exploration is guided and narrows into areas in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Thami Nkosi

In the kSUM problem we are given an array of numbers $a_1,a_2,...,a_n$ and we are required to determine if there are $k$ different elements in this array such that their sum is 0. This problem is a parameterized version of the well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Isaac Goldstein , Moshe Lewenstein , Ely Porat

The Boolean constraint satisfaction problem 3-SAT is arguably the canonical NP-complete problem. In contrast, 2-SAT can not only be decided in polynomial time, but in fact in deterministic linear time. In 2006, Bravyi proposed a physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Niel de Beaudrap , Sevag Gharibian

We present an $\mathcal{O}^\star(2^{0.5n})$ time and $\mathcal{O}^\star(2^{0.249999n})$ space randomized algorithm for solving worst-case Subset Sum instances with $n$ integers. This is the first improvement over the long-standing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jesper Nederlof , Karol Węgrzycki

We present a collection of new results on problems related to 3SUM, including: 1. The first truly subquadratic algorithm for $\ \ \ \ \ $ 1a. computing the (min,+) convolution for monotone increasing sequences with integer values bounded by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Timothy M. Chan , Moshe Lewenstein