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We address the problem of testing weak optimality of a given solution of a given interval linear program. The problem was recently wrongly stated to be polynomially solvable. We disprove it. We show that the problem is NP-hard in general.…

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I define a natural measure of the complexity of a parametric distribution relative to a given true distribution called the {\it razor} of a model family. The Minimum Description Length principle (MDL) and Bayesian inference are shown to…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Vijay Balasubramanian

Orthogonal polynomials on the real line always satisfy a three-term recurrence relation. The recurrence coefficients determine a tridiagonal semi-infinite matrix (Jacobi matrix) which uniquely characterizes the orthogonal polynomials. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-09-25 André Ronveaux , Walter Van Assche

We develop an algorithmic theory of convex optimization over discrete sets. Using a combination of algebraic and geometric tools we are able to provide polynomial time algorithms for solving broad classes of convex combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-24 Shmuel Onn

In this paper, we suggest a new efficient algorithm in order to compute S-polynomial reduction rapidly in the known algorithm for computing Grobner bases, and compare the complexity with others.

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Yong-Jin Kim , Hyon-Song Paek , Nam-Chol Kim , Chong-Il Byon

This paper has two parts. First, we complete the proof of the Kolmogorov extension theorem for unbounded random variables using compactness theorem of integral logic which was proved for bounded case in [8]. Second, we give a proof of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Seyed-Mohammad Bagheri , Karim Khanaki

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) for first-order reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures form a large class of computational problems that might exhibit a complexity dichotomy, P versus NP-complete. A powerful method to…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Manuel Bodirsky , Bertalan Bodor

We obtain Calder{\'o}n-Zygmund estimates for some degenerate equations of Kolmogorov type with inhomogeneous coefficients. We then derive the well-posedness of the martingale problem associated to related degenerate operators, and therefore…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Stephane Menozzi

Depth of an object concerns a tradeoff between computation time and excess of program length over the shortest program length required to obtain the object. It gives an unconditional lower bound on the computation time from a given program…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Luis Antunes , Armando Matos , Andre Souto , Paul Vitanyi

The orthogonal decomposition factorizes a tensor into a sum of an orthogonal list of rankone tensors. We present several properties of orthogonal rank. We find that a subtensor may have a larger orthogonal rank than the whole tensor and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Chao Zeng

Kolmogorov Complexity constitutes an integral part of computability theory, information theory, and computational complexity theory -- in the discrete setting of bits and Turing machines. Over real numbers, on the other hand, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-03-28 Martin Ziegler , Wouter M. Koolen

We consider the linear regression problem. We propose the S-Lasso procedure to estimate the unknown regression parameters. This estimator enjoys sparsity of the representation while taking into account correlation between successive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-15 Mohamed Hebiri

We develop a new tool, namely polynomial and linear algebraic methods, for studying systems of word equations. We illustrate its usefulness by giving essentially simpler proofs of several hard problems. At the same time we prove extensions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Aleksi Saarela

We present new algorithms that efficiently approximate the hypergeometric function of a matrix argument through its expansion as a series of Jack functions. Our algorithms exploit the combinatorial properties of the Jack function, and have…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Plamen Koev , Alan Edelman

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

In the framework of computational complexity and in an effort to define a more natural reduction for problems of equivalence, we investigate the recently introduced kernel reduction, a reduction that operates on each element of a pair…

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We present a novel, general, and unifying point of view on sparse approaches to polynomial optimization. Solving polynomial optimization problems to global optimality is a ubiquitous challenge in many areas of science and engineering.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Gennadiy Averkov , Benjamin Peters , Sebastian Sager

We summarize our recent findings, where we proposed a framework for learning a Kolmogorov model, for a collection of binary random variables. More specifically, we derive conditions that link outcomes of specific random variables, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Hadi Ghauch , Mikael Skoglund , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Ali H. Sayed

In 2012, Diem introduced a new figure of merit for cryptographic sequences called expansion complexity. Recently, a series of paper has been published for analysis of expansion complexity and for testing sequences in terms of this new…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Domingo Gómez-Pérez , László Mérai

In this paper we analyze O'Hara's partition bijection. We present three type of results. First, we show that O'Hara's bijection can be viewed geometrically as a certain scissor congruence type result. Second, we obtain a number of new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Matjaz Konvalinka , Igor Pak