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The composition technique is a popular method for excluding polynomial-size problem kernels for NP-hard parameterized problems. We present a new technique exploiting triangle-based fractal structures for extending the range of applicability…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Till Fluschnik , Danny Hermelin , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

With the rise of smartphones and the internet-of-things, data is increasingly getting generated at the edge on local, personal devices. For privacy, latency and energy saving reasons, this shift is causing machine learning algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiaqi Li , Ross Drummond , Stephen R. Duncan

The NP-hard Odd Cycle Transversal problem asks for a minimum vertex set whose removal from an undirected input graph $G$ breaks all odd cycles, and thereby yields a bipartite graph. The problem is well-known to be fixed-parameter tractable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bart M. P. Jansen , Yosuke Mizutani , Blair D. Sullivan , Ruben F. A. Verhaegh

We consider the Minimum Coverage Kernel problem: given a set $B$ of $d$-dimensional boxes, find a subset of $B$ of minimum size covering the same region as $B$. This problem is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard, but as for many $\mathsf{NP}$-hard problems…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Jérémy Barbay , Pablo Pérez-Lantero , Javiel Rojas-Ledesma

One of the cornerstones of the distributed complexity theory is the derandomization result by Chang, Kopelowitz, and Pettie [FOCS 2016]: any randomized LOCAL algorithm that solves a locally checkable labeling problem (LCL) can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sameep Dahal , Francesco d'Amore , Henrik Lievonen , Timothé Picavet , Jukka Suomela

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

Needlets have been recognized as state-of-the-art tools to tackle spherical data, due to their excellent localization properties in both spacial and frequency domains. This paper considers developing kernel methods associated with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Shaobo Lin

The three-in-a-tree problem asks for an induced tree of the input graph containing three mandatory vertices. In 2006, Chudnovsky and Seymour [Combinatorica, 2010] presented the first polynomial time algorithm for this problem, which has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Murilo V. G. da Silva , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

The problem of classification in machine learning has often been approached in terms of function approximation. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach for classification in arbitrary compact metric spaces which, in theory, yields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 H. N. Mhaskar , Ryan O'Dowd

Kernel methods give powerful, flexible, and theoretically grounded approaches to solving many problems in machine learning. The standard approach, however, requires pairwise evaluations of a kernel function, which can lead to scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Danica J. Sutherland , Jeff Schneider

This paper presents a new perspective on the identification at infinity for the intercept of the sample selection model as identification at the boundary via a transformation of the selection index. This perspective suggests generalizations…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-02-13 Zhewen Pan

We investigate computational problems involving large weights through the lens of kernelization, which is a framework of polynomial-time preprocessing aimed at compressing the instance size. Our main focus is the weighted Clique problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Bart M. P. Jansen , Shivesh K. Roy , Michał Włodarczyk

In the Maximum Minimal Vertex Cover (MMVC) problem, we are given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, and the objective is to decide whether $G$ contains a minimal vertex cover of size at least $k$. Motivated by the kernelization of MMVC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Júlio Araújo , Marin Bougeret , Victor A. Campos , Ignasi Sau

We investigate polynomial-time preprocessing for the problem of hitting forbidden minors in a graph, using the framework of kernelization. For a fixed finite set of connected graphs F, the F-Deletion problem is the following: given a graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Bart M. P. Jansen , Astrid Pieterse

In parameterized complexity, it is well-known that a parameterized problem is fixed-parameter tractable if and only if it has a kernel - an instance equivalent to the input instance, whose size is just a function of the parameter. The size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ashwin Jacob , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Venkatesh Raman

We propose KROM, a kernel-based reduced-order framework for fast solution of nonlinear partial differential equations. KROM formulates PDE solution as a minimum-norm (Gaussian-process) recovery problem in an RKHS, and accelerates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Aras Bacho , Jonghyeon Lee , Houman Owhadi

Kernel-based methods enjoy powerful generalization capabilities in handling a variety of learning tasks. When such methods are provided with sufficient training data, broadly-applicable classes of nonlinear functions can be approximated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

We consider parametrized problems driven by spatially nonlocal integral operators with parameter-dependent kernels. In particular, kernels with varying nonlocal interaction radius $\delta > 0$ and fractional Laplace kernels, parametrized by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

The notion of Turing kernelization investigates whether a polynomial-time algorithm can solve an NP-hard problem, when it is aided by an oracle that can be queried for the answers to bounded-size subproblems. One of the main open problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Bart M. P. Jansen , Marcin Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain