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The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) on a relational structure B is to decide, given a set of constraints on variables where the relations come from B, whether or not there is a assignment to the variables satisfying all of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Hubie Chen

The secret protection problem (SPP) seeks to synthesize a minimum-cost policy ensuring that every execution from an initial state to a secret state includes a sufficient number of protected events. Previous work showed that the problem is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Tomáš Masopust , Jakub Večeřa

Spanners are fundamental graph structures that sparsify graphs at the cost of small stretch. In particular, in recent years, many sequential algorithms constructing additive all-pairs spanners were designed, providing very sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ami Paz , Noam Ravid

Graph Neural Networks have achieved remarkable accuracy in semi-supervised node classification tasks. However, these results lack reliable uncertainty estimates. Conformal prediction methods provide a theoretical guarantee for node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jianqing Song , Jianguo Huang , Wenyu Jiang , Baoming Zhang , Shuangjie Li , Chongjun Wang

Single-chain nanoparticles (SCNP) are a new class of bio and soft-matter polymeric objects in which a fraction of the monomers are able to form equivalently intra- or inter-polymer bonds. Here we numerically show that a fully-entropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Lorenzo Rovigatti , Francesco Sciortino

In this paper we study the fine-grained complexity of finding exact and approximate solutions to problems in P. Our main contribution is showing reductions from exact to approximate solution for a host of such problems. As one (notable)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lijie Chen , Shafi Goldwasser , Kaifeng Lyu , Guy N. Rothblum , Aviad Rubinstein

Detecting Earth twins remains challenging because their shallow, long-period transits are difficult to distinguish from background noise. Motivated by the challenge, we developed Segmented-Polynomial-fitting Least Squares (SPLS), a new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Shuyue Zheng , Fabo Feng , Yicheng Rui

Sampling-based algorithms are classical approaches to perform Bayesian inference in inverse problems. They provide estimators with the associated credibility intervals to quantify the uncertainty on the estimators. Although these methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Audrey Repetti , Pierre Chainais

The major challenge of learning from multi-label data has arisen from the overwhelming size of label space which makes this problem NP-hard. This problem can be alleviated by gradually involving easy to hard tags into the learning process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Seyed Amjad Seyedi , S. Siamak Ghodsi , Fardin Akhlaghian , Mahdi Jalili , Parham Moradi

Amalgamation SNP (ASNP) is a fragment of existential second-order logic that strictly contains binary connected MMSNP of Feder and Vardi and binary guarded monotone SNP of Bienvenu, ten Cate, Lutz, and Wolter; it is a promising candidate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Manuel Bodirsky , Simon Knäuer , Florian Starke

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) involves deciding, given a set of variables and a set of constraints on the variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. One formulation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Hubie Chen , Benoit Larose

Hopsets and spanners are fundamental graph structures, playing a key role in shortest path computation, distributed communication, and more. A (near-exact) hopset for a given graph $G$ is a (small) subset of weighted edges $H$ that when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Shimon Kogan , Merav Parter

The hitting set problem is a well-known NP-hard optimization problem in which, given a set of elements and a collection of subsets, the goal is to find the smallest selection of elements, such that each subset contains at least one element…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sander Aarts , David B. Shmoys

Fixtures for constraining the movement of parts have been extensively investigated in robotics, since they are essential for using robots in automated manufacturing. This paper deals with the design and optimized synthesis of a special type…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tom Tsabar , Efi Fogel , Dan Halperin

We present and evaluate GPU Bucket Sort, a parallel deterministic sample sort algorithm for many-core GPUs. Our method is considerably faster than Thrust Merge (Satish et.al., Proc. IPDPS 2009), the best comparison-based sorting algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Frank Dehne , Hamidreza Zaboli

We develop a polynomial method on finite fields to amplify the hardness of spare sets in nondeterministic time complexity classes on a randomized streaming model. One of our results shows that if there exists a $2^{n^{o(1)}}$-sparse set in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Bin Fu

One-shot methods have significantly advanced the field of neural architecture search (NAS) by adopting weight-sharing strategy to reduce search costs. However, the accuracy of performance estimation can be compromised by co-adaptation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jianfeng Li , Jiawen Zhang , Feng Wang , Lianbo Ma

An \emph{s-graph} is a graph with two kinds of edges: \emph{subdivisible} edges and \emph{real} edges. A \emph{realisation} of an s-graph $B$ is any graph obtained by subdividing subdivisible edges of $B$ into paths of arbitrary length (at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Benjamin Lévêque , David Y. Lin , Frédéric Maffray , Nicolas Trotignon

We consider the problem of partitioning a graph into a non-fixed number of non-overlapping subgraphs of maximum density. The density of a partition is the sum of the densities of the subgraphs, where the density of a subgraph is its average…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Cristina Bazgan , Katrin Casel , Pierre Cazals

We present the Scalable Nucleotide Alignment Program (SNAP), a new short and long read aligner that is both more accurate (i.e., aligns more reads with fewer errors) and 10-100x faster than state-of-the-art tools such as BWA. Unlike recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Matei Zaharia , William J. Bolosky , Kristal Curtis , Armando Fox , David Patterson , Scott Shenker , Ion Stoica , Richard M. Karp , Taylor Sittler