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Efficiently computing accurate representations of high-dimensional data is essential for data analysis and unsupervised learning. Dendrograms, also known as ultrametrics, are widely used representations that preserve hierarchical…
We present Fast Approximate Minimum Spanning Tree (FAMST), a novel algorithm that addresses the computational challenges of constructing Minimum Spanning Trees (MSTs) for large-scale and high-dimensional datasets. FAMST utilizes a…
We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…
We survey permutation-based methods for approximate k-nearest neighbor search. In these methods, every data point is represented by a ranked list of pivots sorted by the distance to this point. Such ranked lists are called permutations. The…
In the pairwise weighted spanner problem, the input consists of an $n$-vertex-directed graph, where each edge is assigned a cost and a length. Given $k$ vertex pairs and a distance constraint for each pair, the goal is to find a…
We propose an exact polynomial algorithm for a resource allocation problem with convex costs and constraints on partial sums of resource consumptions, in the presence of either continuous or integer variables. No assumption of strict…
We propose a general data structure CORoBTS for storing B-tree-like search trees dynamically in a cache-oblivious way combining the van Emde Boas memory layout with packed memory array. In the use of the vEB layout mostly search complexity…
Given a set $S$ of $n$ (distinct) keys from key space $[U]$, each associated with a value from $\Sigma$, the \emph{static dictionary} problem asks to preprocess these (key, value) pairs into a data structure, supporting value-retrieval…
The real numbers are important in both mathematics and computation theory. Computationally, real numbers can be represented in several ways; most commonly using inexact floating-point data-types, but also using exact arbitrary-precision…
Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…
In this paper we show how to recover a spectral approximations to broad classes of structured matrices using only a polylogarithmic number of adaptive linear measurements to either the matrix or its inverse. Leveraging this result we obtain…
We present an optimal and efficient algorithm for finding a shortest path in an elastic optical network. The algorithm is an adaptation of the Dijkstra shortest path algorithm, where we take into account the spectrum continuity and…
The classic algorithm [Papadimitriou, J.ACM '81] for IPs has a running time $n^{O(m)}(m\cdot\max\{\Delta,\|\textbf{b}\|_{\infty}\})^{O(m^2)}$, where $m$ is the number of constraints, $n$ is the number of variables, and $\Delta$ and…
We present an algorithm for approximating semidefinite programs with running time that is sublinear in the number of entries in the semidefinite instance. We also present lower bounds that show our algorithm to have a nearly optimal running…
Approximate integer programming is the following: For a convex body $K \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, either determine whether $K \cap \mathbb{Z}^n$ is empty, or find an integer point in the convex body scaled by $2$ from its center of gravity…
As supported by abundant experimental evidence, neural networks are state-of-the-art for many approximation tasks in high-dimensional spaces. Still, there is a lack of a rigorous theoretical understanding of what they can approximate, at…
Recently, a framework for the approximation of the entire set of $\epsilon$-efficient solutions (denote by $E_\epsilon$) of a multi-objective optimization problem with stochastic search algorithms has been proposed. It was proven that such…
Approximate subgraph matching (ASM) is a task that determines the approximate presence of a given query graph in a large target graph. Being an NP-hard problem, ASM is critical in graph analysis with a myriad of applications ranging from…
Robust optimization provides a principled and unified framework to model many problems in modern operations research and computer science applications, such as risk measures minimization and adversarially robust machine learning. To use a…
We introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to any transformation in the coordinate embeddings that preserves the distance between neighbouring nodes. In particular, it is equivariant to the Euclidean and…