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When uncertainty meets costly information gathering, a fundamental question emerges: which data points should we probe to unlock near-optimal solutions? Sparsification of stochastic packing problems addresses this trade-off. The existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shaddin Dughmi , Yusuf Hakan Kalayci , Xinyu Liu

Given a training sample of size $m$ from a $d$-dimensional population, we wish to allocate a new observation $Z\in \R^d$ to this population or to the noise. We suppose that the difference between the distribution of the population and that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-30 Yuri I. Ingster , Christophe Pouet , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

The typical complexity of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) can be investigated by means of random ensembles of instances. The latter exhibit many threshold phenomena besides their satisfiability phase transition, in particular a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-29 Louise Budzynski , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Guilhem Semerjian

In order to achieve high accuracy for machine learning (ML) applications, it is essential to employ models with a large number of parameters. Certain applications, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), however, require real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Kai Zhen , Hieu Duy Nguyen , Feng-Ju Chang , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Ariya Rastrow , .

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a problem of computing a homomorphism $\mathbf{R}\to \mathbf{\Gamma}$ between two relational structures, where $\mathbf{R}$ is defined over a domain $V$ and $\mathbf{\Gamma}$ is defined over a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Rustem Takhanov

Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical accuracy bounds. They serve as an alternative approach to standard neural networks since they can represent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Abolfazl Hashemi , Hayden Schaeffer , Robert Shi , Ufuk Topcu , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

We study random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in the unsatisfiable regime. We relate the structure of near-optimal solutions for any Max-CSP to that for an associated spin glass on the hypercube, using the Guerra-Toninelli…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Chris Jones , Kunal Marwaha , Juspreet Singh Sandhu , Jonathan Shi

Composite likelihood has shown promise in settings where the number of parameters $p$ is large due to its ability to break down complex models into simpler components, thus enabling inference even when the full likelihood is not tractable.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-21 Claudia Di Caterina , Davide Ferrari

We initiate the study of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in the presence of counting quantifiers, which may be seen as variants of CSPs in the mould of quantified CSPs (QCSPs). We show that a single counting quantifier strictly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin , Juraj Stacho

In this paper, we consider a well-known sparse optimization problem that aims to find a sparse solution of a possibly noisy underdetermined system of linear equations. Mathematically, it can be modeled in a unified manner by minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Lei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Shuhuang Xiang

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

The binary Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is to decide whether there exists an assignment to a set of variables which satisfies specified constraints between pairs of variables. A binary CSP instance can be presented as a labelled…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-28 David A. Cohen , Martin C. Cooper , Peter G. Jeavons , Stanislav Zivny

Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a small number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In this paper, the high-dimensional setting is considered. It is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

Graph compression or sparsification is a basic information-theoretic and computational question. A major open problem in this research area is whether $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate cut-preserving vertex sparsifiers with size close to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Parinya Chalermsook , Syamantak Das , Bundit Laekhanukit , Yunbum Kook , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Mark Sellke , Daniel Vaz

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

We are motivated by problems that arise in a number of applications such as Online Marketing and explosives detection, where the observations are usually modeled using Poisson statistics. We model each observation as a Poisson random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-17 D. Motamedvaziri , M. H. Rohban , V. Saligrama

In the presence of a globally conserved charge $N$, a natural question is whether a given separable state can be separated into charge-conserving components. We dub this problem the Symmetric Separability Problem (SSP). On random states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Christian Boudreault , Nicolas Levasseur

Uncertain graphs are prevalent in several applications including communications systems, biological databases and social networks. The ever increasing size of the underlying data renders both graph storage and query processing extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Panos Parchas , Nikolaos Papailiou , Dimitris Papadias , Francesco Bonchi

How can we remove some interactions in a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) such that it still remains satisfiable? In this paper we study a modified survey propagation algorithm that enables us to address this question for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Ramezanpour , S. Moghimi-Araghi

We design and mathematically analyze sampling-based algorithms for regularized loss minimization problems that are implementable in popular computational models for large data, in which the access to the data is restricted in some way. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ryan R. Curtin , Sungjin Im , Ben Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Alireza Samadian
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