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We study the average case complexity of a linear multivariate problem $(\lmp)$ defined on functions of $d$ variables. We consider two classes of information. The first $\lstd$ consists of function values and the second $\lall$ of all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Henryk Woźniakowski

We are interested in determining the bound of the average of the degrees of the irreducible characters whose degrees are not divisible by some prime $p$ that guarantees a finite group $G$ of odd order is $p$-nilpotent. We find a bound that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Ramadan Elsharif , Mark L. Lewis

A worst-case complexity bound is proved for a sequential quadratic optimization (commonly known as SQP) algorithm that has been designed for solving optimization problems involving a stochastic objective function and deterministic nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Frank E. Curtis , Michael J. O'Neill , Daniel P. Robinson

We initiate a program of average smoothness analysis for efficiently learning real-valued functions on metric spaces. Rather than using the Lipschitz constant as the regularizer, we define a local slope at each point and gauge the function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Yair Ashlagi , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Aryeh Kontorovich

We examine how sparse feasible solutions of integer programs are, on average. Average case here means that we fix the constraint matrix and vary the right-hand side vectors. For a problem in standard form with m equations, there exist LP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Timm Oertel , Joseph Paat , Robert Weismantel

In our previous work there was some indication that Partition Sort could be having a more robust average case O(nlogn) complexity than the popular Quick Sort. In our first study in this paper, we reconfirm this through computer experiments…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Niraj Kumar Singh , Mita Pal , Soubhik Chakraborty

Measuring how quickly iterative methods converge is essential in computational mathematics, but current approaches have significant limitations. Q-order analysis requires strict smoothness conditions, while R-order analysis lacks precision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Xiangmin Jiao , Hongji Gao

We prove new lower bounds on the modularity of graphs. Specifically, the modularity of a graph $G$ with average degree $\bar d$ is $\Omega(\bar{d}^{-1/2})$, under some mild assumptions on the degree sequence of $G$. The lower bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Vilhelm Agdur , Nina Kamčev , Fiona Skerman

Typical performance of approximation algorithms is studied for randomized minimum vertex cover problems. A wide class of random graph ensembles characterized by an arbitrary degree distribution is discussed with some theoretical frameworks.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-10 Satoshi Takabe , Koji Hukushima

We use an interesting result of probabilistic flavor concerning the product of two permutations consisting of one cycle each to find an explicit formula for the average number of block interchanges needed to sort a permutation of length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-11-06 Miklos Bona , Ryan Flynn

We correct a paper previously submitted to CoRR. That paper claimed that the algorithm there described was provably of linear time complexity in the average case. The alleged proof of that statement contained an error, being based on an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 John Ellis , Ulrike Stege

When the objective has Lipschitz continuous $p$th-order derivatives, it is known that convex-concave minimax problems can be solved with $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-2/(p+1)})$ $p$th-order oracle calls. This complexity upper bound was speculated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Lesi Chen , Xinliang Zhang , Chengchang Liu , Junru Li , Luo Luo , Jingzhao Zhang

We focus on the average-case analysis: A function w : V -> Z+ is given which defines the likelihood for a node to be the one marked, and we want the strategy that minimizes the expected number of queries. Prior to this paper, very little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Ferdinando Cicalese , Tobias Jacobs , Eduardo Laber , Marco Molinaro

This paper provides a convergence analysis for generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo samplers, a family of Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods based on leapfrog integration of Hamiltonian dynamics and kinetic Langevin diffusion, that encompasses…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Evan Camrud , Alain Durmus , Pierre Monmarché , Gabriel Stoltz

Let X = (x_0,...,x_{n-1})$ be a sequence of n numbers. For \epsilon > 0, we say that x_i is an \epsilon-approximate median if the number of elements strictly less than x_i, and the number of elements strictly greater than x_i are each less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Nayak , Felix Wu

The present paper gives a statistical adventure towards exploring the average case complexity behavior of computer algorithms. Rather than following the traditional count based analytical (pen and paper) approach, we instead talk in terms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Niraj Kumar Singh , Soubhik Chakraborty , Dheeresh Kumar Mallick

We study certain combinatorial aspects of list-decoding, motivated by the exponential gap between the known upper bound (of $O(1/\gamma)$) and lower bound (of $\Omega_p(\log (1/\gamma))$) for the list-size needed to decode up to radius $p$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Venkatesan Guruswami , Srivatsan Narayanan

We consider the minimization problem of a sum of a number of functions having Lipshitz $p$-th order derivatives with different Lipschitz constants. In this case, to accelerate optimization, we propose a general framework allowing to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Dmitry Kamzolov , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

In resource allocation, we often require that the output allocation of an algorithm is stable against input perturbation because frequent reallocation is costly and untrustworthy. Varma and Yoshida (SODA'21) formalized this requirement for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida

We consider the problem of upper bounding the number of circular transpositions needed to sort a permutation. It is well known that any permutation can be sorted using at most $n(n-1)/2$ adjacent transpositions. We show that, if we allow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Anke van Zuylen , James Bieron , Frans Schalekamp , Gexin Yu