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The $\ell_p$ linear regression problem is to minimize $f(x)=||Ax-b||_p$ over $x\in\mathbb{R}^d$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$, $b\in \mathbb{R}^n$, and $p>0$. To avoid overfitting and bound $||x||_2$, the constrained $\ell_p$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Ibrahim Jubran , David Cohn , Dan Feldman

In this paper, we develop a novel accelerated fixed-point-based framework using delayed inexact oracles to approximate a fixed point of a nonexpansive operator (or equivalently, a root of a co-coercive operator), a central problem in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Nghia Nguyen-Trung , Quoc Tran-Dinh

We consider the {\em mobile facility location} (\mfl) problem. We are given a set of facilities and clients located in a common metric space. The goal is to move each facility from its initial location to a destination and assign each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Sara Ahmadian , Zachary Friggstad , Chaitanya Swamy

In a recent work, Esmer et al. describe a simple method - Approximate Monotone Local Search - to obtain exponential approximation algorithms from existing parameterized exact algorithms, polynomial-time approximation algorithms and, more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Baris Can Esmer , Ariel Kulik , Daniel Marx , Daniel Neuen , Roohani Sharma

The metric sketching problem is defined as follows. Given a metric on $n$ points, and $\epsilon>0$, we wish to produce a small size data structure (sketch) that, given any pair of point indices, recovers the distance between the points up…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

An extra-stabilised Morley finite element method (FEM) directly computes guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds with optimal a priori convergence rates for the bi-Laplace Dirichlet eigenvalues. The smallness assumption…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Carsten Carstensen , Sophie Puttkammer

This paper presents an algorithm for the efficient approximation of the saddle-extremum persistence diagram of a scalar field. Vidal et al. introduced recently a fast algorithm for such an approximation (by interrupting a progressive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jules Vidal , Julien Tierny

Schedulability is a fundamental problem in real-time scheduling, but it has to be approximated due to the intrinsic computational hardness. As the most popular algorithm for deciding schedulability on multiprocess platforms, the speedup…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Xin Han , Liang Zhao , Zhishan Guo , Xingwu Liu

We present algorithms for the $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate version of the closest vector problem for certain norms. The currently fastest algorithm (Dadush and Kun 2016) for general norms has running time of $2^{O(n)} (1/\epsilon)^n$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Márton Naszódi , Moritz Venzin

In many iterative optimization methods, fixed-point theory enables the analysis of the convergence rate via the contraction factor associated with the linear approximation of the fixed-point operator. While this factor characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Trung Vu , Raviv Raich

We present novel randomized approximation schemes for the Edit Distance (ED) problem and the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem that, for any constant $\epsilon>0$, compute a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for ED and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiao Mao , Aviad Rubinstein

We provide an efficient reduction from the problem of querying approximate multiplicatively weighted farthest neighbors in a metric space to the unweighted problem. Combining our techniques with core-sets for approximate unweighted farthest…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-29 John Augustine , David Eppstein , Kevin A. Wortman

We present an $(e^{O(p)} \frac{\log \ell}{\log\log\ell})$-approximation algorithm for socially fair clustering with the $\ell_p$-objective. In this problem, we are given a set of points in a metric space. Each point belongs to one (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yury Makarychev , Ali Vakilian

We consider the problem of finding an $\varepsilon$-approximate stationary point of a smooth function on a compact domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$. In contrast with dimension-free approaches such as gradient descent, we focus here on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Sébastien Bubeck , Dan Mikulincer

We present a new algorithm that produces a well-spaced superset of points conforming to a given input set in any dimension with guaranteed optimal output size. We also provide an approximate Delaunay graph on the output points. Our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Gary L. Miller , Donald R. Sheehy , Ameya Velingker

We study the design of efficient approximation algorithms for the $\ell$-center clustering and minimum-diameter $\ell$-clustering problems in high dimensional Euclidean and Hamming spaces. Our main tool is randomized dimension reduction.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mirosław Kowaluk , Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson

We provide nearly optimal algorithms for online facility location (OFL) with predictions. In OFL, $n$ demand points arrive in order and the algorithm must irrevocably assign each demand point to an open facility upon its arrival. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Erzhi Liu , You Lyu , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yubo Zhang

In this paper we present linear time approximation schemes for several generalized matching problems on nonbipartite graphs. Our results include $O_\epsilon(m)$-time algorithms for $(1-\epsilon)$-maximum weight $f$-factor and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Dawei Huang , Seth Pettie

We present prior robust algorithms for a large class of resource allocation problems where requests arrive one-by-one (online), drawn independently from an unknown distribution at every step. We design a single algorithm that, for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Nikhil R. Devanur , Kamal Jain , Balasubramanian Sivan , Christopher A. Wilkens

We present a new approximation algorithm for the treewidth problem which finds an upper bound on the treewidth and constructs a corresponding tree decomposition as well. Our algorithm is a faster variation of Reed's classical algorithm. For…

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