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The Lovasz Local Lemma [EL75] is a powerful tool to non-constructively prove the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of criteria. In his breakthrough paper [Bec91], Beck demonstrated that a constructive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Robin A. Moser , Gábor Tardos

Prior work on computable defect-based local error estimators for (linear) time-reversible integrators is extended to nonlinear and nonautonomous evolution equations. We prove that the asymptotic results from the linear case [W. Auzinger and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Winfried Auzinger , Harald Hofstätter , Othmar Koch

We consider reinforcement learning in an environment modeled by an episodic, finite, stage-dependent Markov decision process of horizon $H$ with $S$ states, and $A$ actions. The performance of an agent is measured by the regret after…

This paper proposes a new framework for providing approximation guarantees of local search algorithms. Local search is a basic algorithm design technique and is widely used for various combinatorial optimization problems. To analyze local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Kaito Fujii

We present a poly $\log \log n$ time randomized CONGEST algorithm for a natural class of Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) instances on constant degree graphs. This implies, among other things, that there are no LCL problems with randomized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

In this paper we present an application of a simple technique of local recompression, previously developed by the author in the context of compressed membership problems and compressed pattern matching, to word equations. The technique is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Artur Jeż

Despite achieving remarkable success in complex tasks, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is still suffering from critical issues in practical applications, such as low data efficiency, lack of interpretability, and limited cross-environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chang Yao , Jinghui Qin , Kebing Jin , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Reinforcement learning exhibits potential in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models, yet it is hard to scale for the low sample efficiency during the rollout phase. Existing methods attempt to improve efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Deyang Kong , Qi Guo , Xiangyu Xi , Wei Wang , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently used for dynamic optimization problems. With this paper, we contribute to the theoretical understanding of this research area. We present the first computational complexity analysis of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

It is known that evolution strategies in continuous domains might not converge in the presence of noise. It is also known that, under mild assumptions, and using an increasing number of resamplings, one can mitigate the effect of additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Marie-Liesse Cauwet

Lov\'asz Local Lemma (LLL) is a probabilistic tool that allows us to prove the existence of combinatorial objects in the cases when standard probabilistic argument does not work (there are many partly independent conditions). LLL can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Andrey Rumyantsev

We present a new approach for finding matchings in dense graphs by building on Szemer\'edi's celebrated Regularity Lemma. This allows us to obtain non-trivial albeit slight improvements over longstanding bounds for matchings in streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

Most recent test-time adaptation methods focus on only classification tasks, use specialized network architectures, destroy model calibration or rely on lightweight information from the source domain. To tackle these issues, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Devavrat Tomar , Guillaume Vray , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran

The Lopsided Lovasz Local Lemma (LLLL) is a cornerstone probabilistic tool for showing that it is possible to avoid a collection of "bad" events as long as their probabilities and interdependencies are sufficiently small. The strongest…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

The Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful result in probability theory that states that the probability that none of a set of bad events happens is nonzero if the probability of each event is small compared to the number of events that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Navin Goyal , Bernhard Haeupler

Safety is a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), particularly in real-world applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and healthcare. To address this, Constrained Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs) are commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Chang Liu , Yunfan Li , Lin F. Yang

Recently, many machine learning optimizers have been analysed considering them as the asymptotic limit of some differential equations when the step size goes to zero. In other words, the optimizers can be seen as a finite difference scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Bilel Bensaid , Gaël Poëtte , Rodolphe Turpault

Composite optimization offers a powerful modeling tool for a variety of applications and is often numerically solved by means of proximal gradient methods. In this paper, we consider fully nonconvex composite problems under only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Alberto De Marchi , Andreas Themelis

We establish efficient approximate counting algorithms for several natural problems in local lemma regimes. In particular, we consider the probability of intersection of events and the dimension of intersection of subspaces. Our approach is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ryan L. Mann , Gabriel Waite

This paper presents a novel Differential Evolution algorithm for protein folding optimization that is applied to a three-dimensional AB off-lattice model. The proposed algorithm includes two new mechanisms. A local search is used to improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Borko Bošković , Janez Brest