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While recent work suggests that quantum computers can speed up the solution of semidefinite programs, little is known about the quantum complexity of more general convex optimization. We present a quantum algorithm that can optimize a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Andrew M. Childs , Tongyang Li , Xiaodi Wu

In this paper we study the statistical properties of convex hulls of $N$ random points in a plane chosen according to a given distribution. The points may be chosen independently or they may be correlated. After a non-exhaustive survey of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-31 Satya N. Majumdar , Alain Comtet , Julien Randon-Furling

Computing the connected components of a graph is a fundamental problem in algorithmic graph theory. A major question in this area is whether we can compute connected components in $o(\log n)$ parallel time. Recent works showed an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Alireza Farhadi , S. Cliff Liu , Elaine Shi

We consider the setting of online convex optimization (OCO) with \textit{exp-concave} losses. The best regret bound known for this setting is $O(n\log{}T)$, where $n$ is the dimension and $T$ is the number of prediction rounds (treating all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Dan Garber , Ben Kretzu

We introduce and study level-planar straight-line drawings with a fixed number $\lambda$ of slopes. For proper level graphs, we give an $O(n \log^2 n / \log \log n)$-time algorithm that either finds such a drawing or determines that no such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Guido Brückner , Nadine Davina Krisam , Tamara Mchedlidze

The article deals with operations defined on convex polyhedra or polyhedral convex functions. Given two convex polyhedra, operations like Minkowski sum, intersection and closed convex hull of the union are considered. Basic operations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Daniel Ciripoi , Andreas Löhne , Benjamin Weißing

Inspired by the classical fractional cascading technique, we introduce new techniques to speed up the following type of iterated search in 3D: The input is a graph $\mathbf{G}$ with bounded degree together with a set $H_v$ of 3D hyperplanes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Peyman Afshani , Yakov Nekrich , Frank Staals

We present self-adjusting data structures for answering point location queries in convex and connected subdivisions. Let $n$ be the number of vertices in a convex or connected subdivision. Our structures use $O(n)$ space. For any convex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Siu-Wing Cheng , Man-Kit Lau

Given a separation oracle for a convex set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ that is contained in a box of radius $R$, the goal is to either compute a point in $K$ or prove that $K$ does not contain a ball of radius $\epsilon$. We propose a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Haotian Jiang , Yin Tat Lee , Zhao Song , Sam Chiu-wai Wong

Chv\'{a}tal and Klincsek (1980) gave an $O(n^3)$-time algorithm for the problem of finding a maximum-cardinality convex subset of an arbitrary given set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane. This paper examines a generalization of the problem,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Stephane Durocher , J. Mark Keil , Saeed Mehrabi , Debajyoti Mondal

We present a new algorithm for computing the straight skeleton of a polygon. For a polygon with $n$ vertices, among which $r$ are reflex vertices, we give a deterministic algorithm that reduces the straight skeleton computation to a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Siu-Wing Cheng , Liam Mencel , Antoine Vigneron

A quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) is an optimization problem in which the objective function is a quadratic function and the feasible region is defined by quadratic constraints. Solving non-convex QCQP to global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Asteroide Santana , Santanu S. Dey

A new computationally simple method of imposing hard convex constraints on the neural network output values is proposed. The key idea behind the method is to map a vector of hidden parameters of the network to a point that is guaranteed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Andrei V. Konstantinov , Lev V. Utkin

Estimating the volume of a convex body is a central problem in convex geometry and can be viewed as a continuous version of counting. We present a quantum algorithm that estimates the volume of an $n$-dimensional convex body within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Andrew M. Childs , Shih-Han Hung , Tongyang Li , Chunhao Wang , Xiaodi Wu

We revisit a standard polygon containment problem: given a convex $k$-gon $P$ and a convex $n$-gon $Q$ in the plane, find a placement of $P$ inside $Q$ under translation and rotation (if it exists), or more generally, find the largest copy…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Timothy M. Chan , Isaac M. Hair

We give the first Congested Clique algorithm that computes a sparse hopset with polylogarithmic hopbound in polylogarithmic time. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a $(\beta,\epsilon)$-hopset $H$ with "hopbound" $\beta$, is a set of edges added to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yasamin Nazari

We introduce the online stochastic Convex Programming (CP) problem, a very general version of stochastic online problems which allows arbitrary concave objectives and convex feasibility constraints. Many well-studied problems like online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Shipra Agrawal , Nikhil R. Devanur

We improve upon the running time for finding a point in a convex set given a separation oracle. In particular, given a separation oracle for a convex set $K\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ contained in a box of radius $R$, we show how to either find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford , Sam Chiu-wai Wong

Change-point problems have appeared in a great many applications for example cancer genetics, econometrics and climate change. Modern multiscale type segmentation methods are considered to be a statistically efficient approach for multiple…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-04 Chengcheng Huang , Housen Li , Lizhi Cheng , Wei Peng

High-dimensional linear regression under heavy-tailed noise or outlier corruption is challenging, both computationally and statistically. Convex approaches have been proven statistically optimal but suffer from high computational costs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Yinan Shen , Jingyang Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Dong Xia