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We give improved algorithms for the $\ell_{p}$-regression problem, $\min_{x} \|x\|_{p}$ such that $A x=b,$ for all $p \in (1,2) \cup (2,\infty).$ Our algorithms obtain a high accuracy solution in $\tilde{O}_{p}(m^{\frac{|p-2|}{2p + |p-2|}})…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Deeksha Adil , Rasmus Kyng , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva

We study the problem of robustly estimating the parameter $p$ of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph on $n$ nodes, where a $\gamma$ fraction of nodes may be adversarially corrupted. After showing the deficiencies of canonical estimators, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jayadev Acharya , Ayush Jain , Gautam Kamath , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Huanyu Zhang

The exponential-time hypothesis (ETH) states that 3-SAT is not solvable in subexponential time, i.e. not solvable in O(c^n) time for arbitrary c > 1, where n denotes the number of variables. Problems like k-SAT can be viewed as special…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Peter Jonsson , Victor Lagerkvist , Biman Roy

In this paper, we give a simple polynomial-time reduction of {L(p)-Labeling} on graphs with a small diameter to {Metric (Path) TSP}, which enables us to use numerous results on {(Metric) TSP}. On the practical side, we can utilize various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono , Kosuke Sugiyama

We present a time-optimal deterministic distributed algorithm for approximating a minimum weight vertex cover in hypergraphs of rank $f$. This problem is equivalent to the Minimum Weight Set Cover problem in which the frequency of every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Ran Ben-Basat , Guy Even , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an approximation factor better than 1/2. Moreover, for the k-player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-18 Shaddin Dughmi , Hu Fu , Robert Kleinberg

Our main result is a reduction from worst-case lattice problems such as GapSVP and SIVP to a certain learning problem. This learning problem is a natural extension of the `learning from parity with error' problem to higher moduli. It can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Oded Regev

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

In this paper, we establish hardness and approximation results for various $L_p$-ball constrained homogeneous polynomial optimization problems, where $p \in [2,\infty]$. Specifically, we prove that for any given $d \ge 3$ and $p \in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Ke Hou , Anthony Man-Cho So

The P versus NP problem asks whether every language verifiable in polynomial time can also be decided in deterministic polynomial time. In this paper, we present a constructive proof that P = NP by introducing a universal, graph-based…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Changryeol Lee

We study the problem of computing the $p\rightarrow q$ norm of a matrix $A \in R^{m \times n}$, defined as \[ \|A\|_{p\rightarrow q} ~:=~ \max_{x \,\in\, R^n \setminus \{0\}} \frac{\|Ax\|_q}{\|x\|_p} \] This problem generalizes the spectral…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Mrinalkanti Ghosh , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Madhur Tulsiani

A {\em dominating set} of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of vertices $S\subseteq V$ such that every vertex $v\in V\setminus S$ has at least one neighbor in $S$. Finding a dominating set with the minimum cardinality in a connected graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Frank Hernandez , Ernesto Parra , Jose Maria Sigarreta , Nodari Vakhania

This article finds the answer to the question: for any problem from which a non-deterministic algorithm can be derived which verifies whether an answer is correct or not in polynomial time (complexity class NP), is it possible to create an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daniel Cardona Delgado

We provide a deterministic algorithm that finds, in $\epsilon^{-O(1)} n^2$ time, an $\epsilon$-regular Frieze-Kannan partition of a graph on $n$ vertices. The algorithm outputs an approximation of a given graph as a weighted sum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Jacob Fox , László Miklós Lovász , Yufei Zhao

The low-rank matrix approximation problem with respect to the entry-wise $\ell_{\infty}$-norm is the following: given a matrix $M$ and a factorization rank $r$, find a matrix $X$ whose rank is at most $r$ and that minimizes $\max_{i,j}…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Nicolas Gillis , Yaroslav Shitov

A recent SICOMP paper on classical and quantum algorithms for the shortest vector problem introduced a lattice-dependent parameter \(\gamma(L)\), bounded universally in the exponential sense by \(2^{0.402n+o(n)}\), and conjectured that this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yutong Zhang , Yaoran Yang

We initiate the theoretical study of Ext-TSP, a problem that originates in the area of profile-guided binary optimization. Given a graph $G=(V, E)$ with positive edge weights $w: E \rightarrow R^+$, and a non-increasing discount function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Julián Mestre , Sergey Pupyrev , Seeun William Umboh

We leverage the proximal Galerkin algorithm (Keith and Surowiec, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s10208-024-09681-8), a recently introduced mesh-independent algorithm, to obtain a high-order finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos

Let ${\mathbf P}$ be the class of polynomial-time decision problems and $\mathbf{NP}$ be the class of nondeterministic polynomial time decision problems. We prove the following: Theorem 3. The classes ${\mathbf P}$ and $\mathbf{NP}$ are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Petar P. Petrov

Variational inference methods for latent variable statistical models have gained popularity because they are relatively fast, can handle large data sets, and have deterministic convergence guarantees. However, in practice it is unclear…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-22 Hachem Saddiki , Andrew C. Trapp , Patrick Flaherty