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Let $g(X)$ be a polynomial over a finite field ${\mathbb F}_q$ with degree $o(q^{1/2})$, and let $\chi$ be the quadratic residue character. We give a polynomial time algorithm to recover $g(X)$ (up to perfect square factors) given the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Swastik Kopparty

We study the computational complexity of approximating the 2->q norm of linear operators (defined as ||A||_{2->q} = sup_v ||Av||_q/||v||_2), as well as connections between this question and issues arising in quantum information theory and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Boaz Barak , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Aram W. Harrow , Jonathan A. Kelner , David Steurer , Yuan Zhou

The $k$-cut problem asks, given a connected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal splits $G$ into $k$ connected components. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm with approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 MohammadHossein Bateni , Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

In the unsplittable flow problem on a path, we are given a capacitated path $P$ and $n$ tasks, each task having a demand, a profit, and start and end vertices. The goal is to compute a maximum profit set of tasks, such that for each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma , Jens Schulz , Andreas Wiese

Finding a good approximation of the top eigenvector of a given $d\times d$ matrix $A$ is a basic and important computational problem, with many applications. We give two different quantum algorithms that, given query access to the entries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Yanlin Chen , András Gilyén , Ronald de Wolf

The problem of high-dimensional path-dependent optimal stopping (OS) is important to multiple academic communities and applications. Modern OS tasks often have a large number of decision epochs, and complicated non-Markovian dynamics,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-16 David A. Goldberg , Yilun Chen

An NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem $\Pi$ is said to have an {\em approximation threshold} if there is some $t$ such that the optimal value of $\Pi$ can be approximated in polynomial time within a ratio of $t$, and it is NP-hard…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-15 Uriel Feige

The area of parameterized approximation seeks to combine approximation and parameterized algorithms to obtain, e.g., (1+eps)-approximations in f(k,eps)n^{O(1)} time where k is some parameter of the input. We obtain the following results on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Fabrizio Grandoni , Stefan Kratsch , Andreas Wiese

Reinforcement learning with function approximation has recently achieved tremendous results in applications with large state spaces. This empirical success has motivated a growing body of theoretical work proposing necessary and sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Daniel Kane , Sihan Liu , Shachar Lovett , Gaurav Mahajan

Many combinatorial optimization problems are often considered intractable to solve exactly or by approximation. An example of such problem is maximum clique which -- under standard assumptions in complexity theory -- cannot be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tapani Toivonen

A fundamental problem in numerical analysis and approximation theory is approximating smooth functions by polynomials. A much harder version under recent consideration is to enforce bounds constraints on the approximating polynomial. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Larry Allen , Robert C. Kirby

We study the problem of factoring univariate polynomials over finite fields. Under the assumption of the Extended Riemann Hypothesis (ERH), (Gao, 2001) designed a polynomial time algorithm that fails to factor only if the input polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Chandan Saha

We give a deterministic polynomial time $2^{O(r)}$-approximation algorithm for the number of bases of a given matroid of rank $r$ and the number of common bases of any two matroids of rank $r$. To the best of our knowledge, this is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Nima Anari , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Cynthia Vinzant

We show how to compute a relative-error low-rank approximation to any positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix in sublinear time, i.e., for any $n \times n$ PSD matrix $A$, in $\tilde O(n \cdot poly(k/\epsilon))$ time we output a rank-$k$ matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Cameron Musco , David P. Woodruff

In this paper we study the problem of deterministic factorization of sparse polynomials. We show that if $f \in \mathbb{F}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n}]$ is a polynomial with $s$ monomials, with individual degrees of its variables bounded by…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Vishwas Bhargava , Shubhangi Saraf , Ilya Volkovich

In this paper, p-dispersion problems are studied to select $p\geqslant 2$ representative points from a large 2D Pareto Front (PF), solution of bi-objective optimization. Four standard p-dispersion variants are considered. A novel variant,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Nicolas Dupin

We consider a generalization of the unsplittable maximum two-commodity flow problem on undirected graphs where each commodity $i\in{1,2}$ can be split into a bounded number $k_i$ of equally-sized chunks that can be routed on different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Elke Eisenschmidt , Utz-Uwe Haus

In this paper, we intend to present a new algorithm to factorize large numbers. According to the algorithm proposed here, we prove that there is a common factor between p and q. With this procedure, the time of factorization considerably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabiano Sutter de Oliveira

The main purpose of this paper is to study the NP-complete subset-sum problem, not in the usual context of time-complexity-based classification of the algorithms (exponential/polynomial), but through a new kind of algorithmic classification…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Antonios Syreloglou

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm for performing linear or polynomial regression resilient to adversarial corruptions in both examples and labels. Given a sufficiently large (polynomial-size) training set drawn i.i.d. from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Adam Klivans , Pravesh K. Kothari , Raghu Meka