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Numerous algorithms call for computation over the integers modulo a randomly-chosen large prime. In some cases, the quasi-cubic complexity of selecting a random prime can dominate the total running time. We propose a new variant of the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Pascal Giorgi , Bruno Grenet , Armelle Perret du Cray , Daniel S. Roche

This short paper describes a numerical method for optimising the conservative confidence bound on the reliability of a system based on tests of its individual components. This is an alternative to the algorithmic approaches identified in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Peter Bishop , Andrey Povyakalo

We present a new algorithm for solving the real roots of a bivariate polynomial system $\Sigma=\{f(x,y),g(x,y)\}$ with a finite number of solutions by using a zero-matching method. The method is based on a lower bound for bivariate…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Xiaolin Qin , Yong Feng , Jingwei Chen , Jingzhong Zhang

Finding suitable points for multivariate polynomial interpolation and approximation is a challenging task. Yet, despite this challenge, there has been tremendous research dedicated to this singular cause. In this paper, we begin by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Pranay Seshadri , Gianluca Iaccarino , Tiziano Ghisu

The Golomb ruler problem is defined as follows: Given a positive integer n, locate n marks on a ruler such that the distance between any two distinct pair of marks are different from each other and the total length of the ruler is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Burak Kocuk , Willem-Jan van Hoeve

Polynomial factorization in conventional sense is an ill-posed problem due to its discontinuity with respect to coefficient perturbations, making it a challenge for numerical computation using empirical data. As a regularization, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Wenyuan Wu , Zhonggang Zeng

Let $A$ be an $n\times n$ random matrix whose entries are i.i.d. with mean $0$ and variance $1$. We present a deterministic polynomial time algorithm which, with probability at least $1-2\exp(-\Omega(\epsilon n))$ in the choice of $A$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Vishesh Jain , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney

Given a parametric polynomial curve $\gamma:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$, how can we sample a random point $\mathfrak{x}\in \mathrm{im}(\gamma)$ in such a way that it is distributed uniformly with respect to the arc-length? Unfortunately,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Apostolos Chalkis , Christina Katsamaki , Josué Tonelli-Cueto

We study fast Monte-Carlo methods for testing irreducibility and detecting arithmetic imprimitivity of polynomials over $\mathbb{Q}$. Building on the subset-sum criterion of Pemantle-Peres-Rivin, we develop a probabilistic irreducibility…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Igor Rivin

The floating-point implementation of a function on an interval often reduces to polynomial approximation, the polynomial being typically provided by Remez algorithm. However, the floating-point evaluation of a Remez polynomial sometimes…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Florent De Dinechin , Christoph Quirin Lauter

There is no known polynomial-time algorithm for graph isomorphism testing, but elementary combinatorial "refinement" algorithms seem to be very efficient in practice. Some philosophical justification is provided by a classical theorem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Michael Anastos , Matthew Kwan , Benjamin Moore

An improved characteristic set algorithm for solving Boolean polynomial systems is proposed. This algorithm is based on the idea of converting all the polynomials into monic ones by zero decomposition, and using additions to obtain…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhenyu Huang , Yao Sun , Dongdai Lin

An ideal of a local polynomial ring can be described by calculating a standard basis with respect to a local monomial ordering. However standard basis algorithms are not numerically stable. Instead we can describe the ideal numerically by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Robert Krone

Randomized iterative algorithms have attracted much attention in recent years because they can approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without accessing the entire coefficient matrix. In this paper, we propose two novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

The purpose of this paper is to present three new methods for finding all simple zeros of polynomials simultaneously. First, we give a new method for finding simultaneously all simple zeros of polynomials constructed by applying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Jun-Seop Song

We study global distribution of zeros for a wide range of ensembles of random polynomials. Two main directions are related to almost sure limits of the zero counting measures, and to quantitative results on the expected number of zeros in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Igor E. Pritsker

Rational Identity Testing (RIT) is the decision problem of determining whether or not a noncommutative rational formula computes zero in the free skew field. It admits a deterministic polynomial-time white-box algorithm [Garg, Gurvits,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-14 V. Arvind , Abhranil Chatterjee , Partha Mukhopadhyay

In algorithmic randomness, when one wants to define a randomness notion with respect to some non-computable measure $\lambda $, a choice needs to be made. One approach is to allow randomness tests to access the measure $\lambda $ as an…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen , Antoine Taveneaux , Neil Thapen

This paper introduces the notion of probabilistic zero bounds for random polynomials. It presents new results regarding the probabilistic bounds of random polynomials whose coefficients are independently and identically distributed as…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Sajad A. Sheikh , Mohammad Ibrahim Mir

We explore the possibility of accelerating the formal verification of classical programs with a quantum computer. A common source of security flaws stems from the existence of common programming errors like use after free, null-pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Sebastian Issel , Kilian Tscharke , Pascal Debus