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Given a monotonically decreasing $\psi: \mathbb{N} \to [0,\infty)$, Khintchine's Theorem provides an efficient tool to decide whether, for almost every $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}$, there are infinitely many $(p,q) \in \mathbb{Z}^2$ such that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Lorenz Frühwirth , Manuel Hauke

The model of relative-error property testing of Boolean functions has been the subject of significant recent research effort [CDH+24][CPPS25a][CPPS25b] In this paper we consider the problem of relative-error testing an unknown and arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xi Chen , Diptaksho Palit , Kabir Peshawaria , William Pires , Rocco A. Servedio , Yiding Zhang

Bilevel optimization minimizes an objective function, defined by an upper-level problem whose feasible region is the solution of a lower-level problem. We study the oracle complexity of finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Lesi Chen , Jingzhao Zhang

An important result of H. Weyl states that for every sequence $\left(a_{n}\right)_{n\geq 1}$ of distinct positive integers the sequence of fractional parts of $\left(a_{n} \alpha \right)_{n \geq1}$ is uniformly distributed modulo one for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Christoph Aistleitner , Gerhard Larcher

Assuming that a "derivative" ratio rho:=f'/g' of the ratio r:=f/g of differentiable functions f and g is monotonic (that is, rho is increasing or decreasing), it was shown in previous papers that then r can switch at most once, from…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Iosif Pinelis

Solutions of a diophantine equation $f(a,b) = g(c,d)$, with $a,b,c,d$ in some finite range, can be efficiently enumerated by sorting the values of $f$ and $g$ in ascending order and searching for collisions. This article considers functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Michael Eisermann

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under noise. There has been a great deal of work on optimization of submodular functions under various constraints, resulting in algorithms that provide desirable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Avinatan Hassidim , Yaron Singer

We revisit the problem of online learning with individual fairness, where an online learner strives to maximize predictive accuracy while ensuring that similar individuals are treated similarly. We first extend the frameworks of Gillen et…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yahav Bechavod

We study one class of continuous functions $f$ defined on segment $[0,1]$ by equality $$ f(x)=\delta_{\alpha_1(x)1}+\sum^{\infty}_{k=2}\left[\delta_{\alpha_k(x)k}\prod^{k-1}_{j=1}g_{\alpha_j…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 S. O. Klymchuk , M. V. Pratsiovytyi

Answering a question of Ben Yaacov, Ibarluc\'ia, and Tsankov [5], we show an explicit way to construct an affine formula for the distance between two $n$-tuples in a $\{0,1\}$-valued $\varnothing$-structure, using $\lceil \log_2 n \rceil$…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Arthur Molina-Mounier

We present an algorithm for approximating the edit distance between two strings of length $n$ in time $n^{1+\varepsilon}$ up to a constant factor, for any $\varepsilon>0$. Our result completes a research direction set forth in the recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Alexandr Andoni , Negev Shekel Nosatzki

As it follows from the theory of almost periodic functions the set of integer solutions $q$ to the Kronecker system $|\omega_{j} q - \theta_{j}| < \varepsilon \pmod 1$, $j=1,\ldots,m$, where $1,\omega_{1},\ldots,\omega_{m}$ are linearly…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Mikhail Anikushin

We present a new algorithm for finding an $\epsilon$-approximate fixed point of an $\ell_\infty$-contracting function $f : [0, 1]^d \rightarrow [0, 1]^d$. Our algorithm is based on the query-efficient algorithm by Chen, Li, and Yannakakis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Andrei Feodorov , Sebastian Haslebacher

This paper deals with the limit behaviour of the solutions of quasi-linear equations of the form \ $\ds -\limfunc{div}\left(a\left(x, x/{\varepsilon _h},Du_h\right)\right)=f_h$ on $\Omega $ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The sequence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Peter Wall

The biharmonic distance is a fundamental metric on graphs that measures the dissimilarity between two nodes, capturing both local and global structures. It has found applications across various fields, including network centrality, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Dehong Zheng , Zhongzhi Zhang

The main aim of this paper is to study the functional inequality \begin{equation*} \int_{[0,1]}f\bigl((1-t)x+ty\bigr)d\mu(t)\geq 0, \qquad x,y\in I \mbox{ with } x<y, \end{equation*} for a continuous unknown function $f:I\to{\mathbb R}$,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Zsolt Páles , Tomasz Szostok

This paper systematically investigates the absolute monotonicity of two function families associated with the Gaussian hypergeometric function $F(a, b; c; x)$ (where $a,b,c\in\mathbb{R}_+$): $\mathcal{F}_p(x)=(1-x)^pF(a,b;c;x)$ and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Tiehong Zhao

A fault-tolerant distance labeling scheme assigns a label to each vertex and edge of an undirected weighted graph $G$ with $n$ vertices so that, for any edge set $F$ of size $|F| \leq f$, one can approximate the distance between $p$ and $q$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Bernhard Haeupler , Yaowei Long , Antti Roeyskoe , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We enhance constrained-based data quality with approximate band conditional order dependencies (abcODs). Band ODs model the semantics of attributes that are monotonically related with small variations without there being an intrinsic…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Pei Li , Michael Bohlen , Jaroslaw Szlichta , Divesh Srivastava

The proximal point algorithm (PPA) has been developed to solve the monotone variational inequality problem. It provides a theoretical foundation for some methods, such as the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) and the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jingyu Gao , Xiurui Geng