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We consider the foundational problem of maintaining a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum weight matching (MWM) in an $n$-node dynamic graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. We provide a general reduction that reduces the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Aaron Bernstein , Jiale Chen , Aditi Dudeja , Zachary Langley , Aaron Sidford , Ta-Wei Tu

Given a stream of items each associated with a numerical value, its edit distance to monotonicity is the minimum number of items to remove so that the remaining items are non-decreasing with respect to the numerical value. The space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Ho-Leung Chan , Tak-Wah Lam , Lap-Kei Lee , Jiangwei Pan , Hing-Fung Ting , Qin Zhang

We consider the classical makespan minimization scheduling problem where $n$ jobs must be scheduled on $m$ identical machines. Using weighted random sampling, we developed two sublinear time approximation schemes: one for the case where $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We present a novel online algorithm that learns the essence of each dimension in word embeddings by minimizing the within-group distance of contextualized embedding groups. Three state-of-the-art neural-based language models are used,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xinyi Jiang , Zhengzhe Yang , Jinho D. Choi

In this paper, we present a novel heuristic algorithm for the stable but NP-complete deformation-based edit distance on merge trees. Our key contribution is the introduction of a user-controlled look-ahead parameter that allows to trade off…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Florian Wetzels , Heike Leitte , Christoph Garth

In view of the node importance in weighted networks, weighted expected method (WEM), was proposed in this paper, which take an advantages of uncertain graph algorithm. First, a weight processing method is proposed based on the relationship…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Linjie Chen , Na Zhao , Jie Li , Zhen Long , Ming Jing , Jian Wang

Edit distance, also known as Levenshtein distance, is an essential way to compare two strings that proved to be particularly useful in the analysis of genetic sequences and natural language processing. However, edit distance is a discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Evgenii Ofitserov , Vasily Tsvetkov , Vadim Nazarov

Independent parallel q-ary symmetric channels are a suitable transmission model for several applications. The proposed weighted-Hamming metric is tailored to this setting and enables optimal decoding performance. We show that some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

In this paper, we study $k$-Way Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays - the $k$-MPMD problem. This problem considers a metric space with $n$ nodes. Requests arrive at these nodes in an online fashion. The task is to match these requests…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Darya Melnyk , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

The {\em maximum cardinality} and {\em maximum weight matching} problems can be solved in time $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$, a bound that has resisted improvement despite decades of research. (Here $m$ and $n$ are the number of edges and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Ran Duan , Seth Pettie , Hsin-Hao Su

Given strings $P$ of length $m$ and $T$ of length $n$ over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, the string matching with $k$-mismatches problem is to find the positions of all the substrings in $T$ that are at Hamming distance at most $k$ from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Emanuele Giaquinta , Szymon Grabowski , Kimmo Fredriksson

In the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, 2 m requests arrive over time at points of a metric space. An online algorithm has to connect these requests in pairs, but a decision to match may be postponed till a more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Paweł Schmidt

We introduce Post-Optimization Model Edit (POME), a new algorithm that enhances the performance of fine-tuned large language models using only their pretrained and fine-tuned checkpoints, without requiring extra data or further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yong Liu , Di Fu , Yang Luo , Zirui Zhu , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Yang You

We study the on-line minimum weighted bipartite matching problem in arbitrary metric spaces. Here, $n$ not necessary disjoint points of a metric space $M$ are given, and are to be matched on-line with $n$ points of $M$ revealed one by one.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-06 Béla Csaba , András S. Pluhár

Embedding techniques have become essential components of large databases in the deep learning era. By encoding discrete entities, such as words, items, or graph nodes, into continuous vector spaces, embeddings facilitate more efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shiwei Li , Zhuoqi Hu , Xing Tang , Haozhao Wang , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Geometric Edit Distance (GED) are basic similarity measures between curves or general temporal sequences (e.g., time series) that are represented as sequences of points in some metric space $(X,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Omer Gold , Micha Sharir

An edit distance is a measure of the minimum cost sequence of edit operations to transform one structure into another. Edit distance is most commonly encountered within the context of strings, where Wagner and Fischer's string edit distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Vincent A. Cicirello

Traditional algorithm analysis treats all basic operations as equally costly, which hides significant differences in time, energy consumption, and cost between different types of computations on modern processors. We propose a…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sergii Kavun

This paper studies the estimation of high-dimensional, discrete, possibly sparse, mixture models in topic models. The data consists of observed multinomial counts of $p$ words across $n$ independent documents. In topic models, the $p\times…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Xin Bing , Florentina Bunea , Seth Strimas-Mackey , Marten Wegkamp

Distance weighted discrimination (DWD) was originally proposed to handle the data piling issue in the support vector machine. In this paper, we consider the sparse penalized DWD for high-dimensional classification. The state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-27 Boxiang Wang , Hui Zou