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We present randomized algorithms for some well-studied, hard combinatorial problems: the k-path problem, the p-packing of q-sets problem, and the q-dimensional p-matching problem. Our algorithms solve these problems with high probability in…

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In this paper, we will find a pseudopolynomial algorithm to solve $Qm \mid \mid L_{\max}$ and then we will prove that it is impossible to get any constant-factor approximation in polynomial time, and thus also impossible to have a PTAS for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Elbert Du , Stan Zhang

The algorithm and complexity of approximating the permanent of a matrix is an extensively studied topic. Recently, its connection with quantum supremacy and more specifically BosonSampling draws special attention to the average-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zhengfeng Ji , Zhihan Jin , Pinyan Lu

We give a new framework for proving the existence of low-degree, polynomial approximators for Boolean functions with respect to broad classes of non-product distributions. Our proofs use techniques related to the classical moment problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Adam Klivans , Raghu Meka

In this paper we focus on problems which do not admit a constant-factor approximation in polynomial time and explore how quickly their approximability improves as the allowed running time is gradually increased from polynomial to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Édouard Bonnet , Michael Lampis , Vangelis Th. Paschos

We study quantum algorithms for approximating Lasserre's hierarchy values for polynomial optimization. Let $f,g_1,\ldots,g_m$ be real polynomials in $n$ variables and $f^\star$ the infimum of $f$ over the semialgebraic set $S(g)=\{x:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Daniel Stilck França , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

In this work, we study the hardness of approximation of the fair $k$-center problem. In this problem, we are given a set of data points in a metric space that is partitioned into groups and the task is to choose a subset of $k$-data points,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Suhas Thejaswi

Assume a polynomial-time algorithm for factoring integers, Conjecture~\ref{conj}, $d\geq 3,$ and $q$ and $p$ are prime numbers, where $p\leq q^A$ for some $A>0$. We develop a polynomial-time algorithm in $\log(q)$ that lifts every…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Mostafa W. Hassan , Yuchen Mao , Naser T. Sardari , Rodrigo Smith , Xiaohan Zhu

The Pareto sum of two-dimensional point sets $P$ and $Q$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ is defined as the skyline of the points in their Minkowski sum. The problem of efficiently computing the Pareto sum arises frequently in bi-criteria optimization…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Geri Gokaj , Marvin Künnemann , Sabine Storandt , Carina Truschel

A prominent problem in scheduling theory is the weighted flow time problem on one machine. We are given a machine and a set of jobs, each of them characterized by a processing time, a release time, and a weight. The goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Alexander Armbruster , Lars Rohwedder , Andreas Wiese

Quantum signal processing (QSP) represents a real scalar polynomial of degree $d$ using a product of unitary matrices of size $2\times 2$, parameterized by $(d+1)$ real numbers called the phase factors. This innovative representation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin , Hongkang Ni , Jiasu Wang

We study the approximation capabilities of two families of univariate polynomials that arise in applications of quantum signal processing. Although approximation only in the domain $[0,1]$ is physically desired, these polynomial families…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Rahul Sarkar , Theodore J. Yoder

Given $k$ collections of 2SAT clauses on the same set of variables $V$, can we find one assignment that satisfies a large fraction of clauses from each collection? We consider such simultaneous constraint satisfaction problems, and design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Amey Bhangale , Swastik Kopparty , Sushant Sachdeva

We give a deterministic algorithm for approximately counting satisfying assignments of a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function (PTF). Given a degree-$d$ input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ over $R^n$ and a parameter $\epsilon> 0$, our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Anindya De , Rocco Servedio

There have been several algorithms designed to optimise matrix multiplication. From schoolbook method with complexity $O(n^3)$ to advanced tensor-based tools with time complexity $O(n^{2.3728639})$ (lowest possible bound achieved), a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Shrohan Mohapatra

Partitioning and grouping of similar objects plays a fundamental role in image segmentation and in clustering problems. In such problems a typical goal is to group together similar objects, or pixels in the case of image processing. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Dorit S. Hochbaum

We develop a randomized approximation algorithm for the classical maximum coverage problem, which given a list of sets $A_1,A_2,\cdots, A_m$ and integer parameter $k$, select $k$ sets $A_{i_1}, A_{i_2},\cdots, A_{i_k}$ for maximum union…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Bin Fu

The index coding problem is concerned with broadcasting encoded information to a collection of receivers in a way that enables each receiver to discover its required data based on its side information, which comprises the data required by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Dror Chawin , Ishay Haviv

Multidimensional packing problems generalize the classical packing problems such as Bin Packing, Multiprocessor Scheduling by allowing the jobs to be $d$-dimensional vectors. While the approximability of the scalar problems is well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Sai Sandeep

We consider the problem of robust polynomial regression, where one receives samples $(x_i, y_i)$ that are usually within $\sigma$ of a polynomial $y = p(x)$, but have a $\rho$ chance of being arbitrary adversarial outliers. Previously, it…

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