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Polynomial identity testing and arithmetic circuit lower bounds are two central questions in algebraic complexity theory. It is an intriguing fact that these questions are actually related. One of the authors of the present paper has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Bruno Grenet , Pascal Koiran , Natacha Portier , Yann Strozecki

We study the problem of differentially private continual counting in the unbounded setting where the input size $n$ is not known in advance. Current state-of-the-art algorithms based on optimal instantiations of the matrix mechanism cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ben Jacobsen , Kassem Fawaz

We consider the problem of computing a perfect matching problem in a synchronous distributed network, where the network topology corresponds to a complete bipartite graph. The communication between nodes is restricted to activating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hugo Mirault , Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan , Xianbin Zhu

Consider a finite set of sources, each producing i.i.d. observations that follow a unique probability distribution on a finite alphabet. We study the problem of matching a finite set of observed sequences to the set of sources under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

In bi-criteria optimization problems, the goal is typically to compute the set of Pareto-optimal solutions. Many algorithms for these types of problems rely on efficient merging or combining of partial solutions and filtering of dominated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Daniel Funke , Demian Hespe , Peter Sanders , Sabine Storandt , Carina Truschel

In this note, following suggestions by Tao, we extend the randomized algorithm for linear equations over prime fields by Raghavendra to a randomized algorithm for linear equations over the reals. We also show that the algorithm can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Joerg Fliege

We improve both upper and lower bounds for the distribution-free testing of monotone conjunctions. Given oracle access to an unknown Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ and sampling oracle access to an unknown distribution…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Xi Chen , Jinyu Xie

The aim of this paper is to present a new algorithm for proving mixed trigonometric-polynomial inequalities by reducing to polynomial inequalities. Finally, we show the great applicability of this algorithm and as examples, we use it to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Tatjana Lutovac , Branko Malesevic , Cristinel Mortici

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has attracted attention because it can explain why over-parameterized models often show high generalization ability. It is known that when we use iterative magnitude pruning (IMP), which is an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Keitaro Sakamoto , Issei Sato

Sequential algorithms for the Stable Matching Problem are often too slow in the context of some large scale applications like switch scheduling. Parallel architectures can offer a notable decrease in runtime complexity. We propose a stable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Scott Wynn , Alec Kyritsis , Stephora Alberi , Enyue Lu

Turing progressions have been often used to measure the proof-theoretic strength of mathematical theories. Turing progressions based on $n$-provability give rise to a $\Pi_{n+1}$ proof-theoretic ordinal. As such, to each theory $U$ we can…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Joost J. Joosten

Generalized sorting problem, also known as sorting with forbidden comparisons, was first introduced by Huang et al. together with a randomized algorithm which requires $\tilde O(n^{3/2})$ probes. We study this problem with additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Pinyan Lu , Xuandi Ren , Enze Sun , Yubo Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive group testing under the for-each recovery guarantee, also known as probabilistic group testing. In the case of $n$ items and $k$ defectives, we provide an algorithm attaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett

In an empirical Bayesian setting, we provide a new multiple testing method, useful when an additional covariate is available, that influences the probability of each null hypothesis being true. We measure the posterior significance of each…

Applications · Statistics 2008-07-30 Egil Ferkingstad , Arnoldo Frigessi , Håvard Rue , Gudmar Thorleifsson , Augustine Kong

A number of applications (e.g., AI bot tournaments, sports, peer grading, crowdsourcing) use pairwise comparison data and the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model to evaluate a given collection of items (e.g., bots, teams, students, search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Jingyan Wang , Nihar B. Shah , R. Ravi

We study from the proof complexity perspective the (informal) proof search problem: Is there an optimal way to search for propositional proofs? We note that for any fixed proof system there exists a time-optimal proof search algorithm.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jan Krajicek

Probabilistic extensions of logic programming languages, such as ProbLog, integrate logical reasoning with probabilistic inference to evaluate probabilities of output relations; however, prior work does not account for potential statistical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jingbo Wang , Shashin Halalingaiah , Weiyi Chen , Chao Wang , Isil Dillig

Random access coding is an information task that has been extensively studied and found many applications in quantum information. In this scenario, Alice receives an $n$-bit string $x$, and wishes to encode $x$ into a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 André Chailloux , Iordanis Kerenidis , Srijita Kundu , Jamie Sikora

We present a non-algebraic, locality-preserving framework for triangle detection in worst-case sparse graphs. Our algorithm processes the graph in $O(\log n)$ independent layers and partitions incident edges into prefix-based classes where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hongyi Duan , Jian'an Zhang

We follow a connection between tight determinisation and complementation and establish a complementation procedure from parity automata to nondeterministic B\"uchi automata and prove it to be tight up to an $O(n)$ factor, where $n$ is the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Sven Schewe , Thomas Varghese