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The number partition problem is a well-known problem, which is one of 21 Karp's NP-complete problems \cite{karp}. The partition function is a boolean function that is equivalent to the number partition problem with number range restricted.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-25 Chuyu Xiong

We survey current term-wise techniques for quadratizing high-degree pseudo-Boolean functions and introduce a new one, which allows multiple splits of terms. We also introduce the first aggregative approach, which splits a collection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Endre Boros , Aritanan Gruber

In this paper, we use the Poincare separation theorem for estimating the eigenvalues of the fine grid. We propose a randomized version of the algorithm where several different coarse grids are constructed thus leading to more comprehensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Pawan Kumar

In this paper we propose an algorithm, Simple Hebbian PCA, and prove that it is able to calculate the principal component analysis (PCA) in a distributed fashion across nodes. It simplifies existing network structures by removing intralayer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Leonard Johard , Victor Rivera , Manuel Mazzara , JooYoung Lee

In this paper, we consider the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

Let $A$ be a $n$ by $n$ matrix. A skeleton decomposition is any factorization of the form $CUR$ where $C$ comprises columns of $A$, and $R$ comprises rows of $A$. In this paper, we consider uniformly sampling $\l\simeq k \log n$ rows and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-11 Jiawei Chiu , Laurent Demanet

The evaluation of partition functions is a central problem in statistical physics. For lattice systems and other discrete models the partition function may be expressed as the contraction of a tensor network. Unfortunately computing such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Adam S. Jermyn

RNA secondary structure prediction and classification are two important problems in the field of RNA biology. Here, we propose a new permutation based approach to create logical non-disjoint clusters of different secondary structures of a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-24 Nilay Chheda , Manish K Gupta

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

We introduce a novel algorithm that computes the $k$-sparse principal component of a positive semidefinite matrix $A$. Our algorithm is combinatorial and operates by examining a discrete set of special vectors lying in a low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-09 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Stavros Korokythakis

In this note, we polynomially reduce an instance of the partition problem to a dynamic lot sizing problem, and show that solving the latter problem solves the former problem. By solving the dynamic program formulation of the dynamic lot…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chee-Khian Sim

Self-consistent factorization of two-body residual interaction is proposed for arbitrary density- and current-dependent energy functionals. Following this procedure, a separable RPA (SRPA) method is constructed. SRPA considerably simplifies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. O. Nesterenko , J. Kvasil , P. -G. Reinhard

The Schur decomposition of a square matrix $A$ is an important intermediate step of state-of-the-art numerical algorithms for addressing eigenvalue problems, matrix functions, and matrix equations. This work is concerned with the following…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Zvonimir Bujanović , Daniel Kressner , Christian Schröder

Our research deals with the optimization version of the set partition problem, where the objective is to minimize the absolute difference between the sums of the two disjoint partitions. Although this problem is known to be NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

We describe novel subgradient methods for a broad class of matrix optimization problems involving nuclear norm regularization. Unlike existing approaches, our method executes very cheap iterations by combining low-rank stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Haim Avron , Satyen Kale , Shiva Kasiviswanathan , Vikas Sindhwani

Metrics for indirectly predicting the folding rates of RNA sequences are of interest. In this letter, we introduce a simple metric of RNA structural complexity, which accounts for differences in the energetic contributions of RNA base…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-08-17 Asamoah Nkwanta , Wilfred Ndifon

In this paper we derive polynomial time algorithms that generate random $k$-noncrossing matchings and $k$-noncrossing RNA structures with uniform probability. Our approach employs the bijection between $k$-noncrossing matchings and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-13 William Y. C. Chen , Hillary S. W. Han , Christian M. Reidys

This paper presents a quantum algorithm for efficiently computing partial sums and specific weighted partial sums of quantum state amplitudes. Computation of partial sums has important applications, including numerical integration,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

We present a highly efficient and accurate hybrid stochastic simulation algorithm (HSSA) for the purpose of simulating a subset of biochemical reactions of large gene regulatory networks (GRN). The algorithm relies on the separability of a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-29 Jaroslav Albert

We present a computational algorithm for computing short range forces between particles. The algorithm has two distinguishing features. First, it is optimized for multi-processor computers, and will use as many processors as are available.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert C. Ferrell , Edmund Bertschinger