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We consider the Partition problem and propose a deterministic FPTAS (Fully Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme) that runs in $\widetilde{O}(n + 1/\varepsilon)$-time. This is the best possible (up to a polylogarithmic factor) assuming the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lin Chen , Jiayi Lian , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

In this paper, we will find a pseudopolynomial algorithm to solve $Qm \mid \mid L_{\max}$ and then we will prove that it is impossible to get any constant-factor approximation in polynomial time, and thus also impossible to have a PTAS for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Elbert Du , Stan Zhang

We describe a deterministic algorithm that computes an approximate root of n complex polynomial equations in n unknowns in average polynomial time with respect to the size of the input, in the Blum-Shub-Smale model with square root. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Pierre Lairez

We study dynamic $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate rounding of fractional matchings -- a key ingredient in numerous breakthroughs in the dynamic graph algorithms literature. Our first contribution is a surprisingly simple deterministic rounding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Aaron Sidford , David Wajc

It is known that a better than $2$-approximation algorithm for the girth in dense directed unweighted graphs needs $n^{3-o(1)}$ time unless one uses fast matrix multiplication. Meanwhile, the best known approximation factor for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

This article presents a validation of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. The proposed algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that combines primal and dual linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Samuel Awoniyi

We represent the number of mxn non-negative integer matrices (contingency tables) with prescribed row sums and column sums as the expected value of the permanent of a non-negative random matrix with exponentially distributed entries. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Barvinok

The goal of this paper is to understand how exponential-time approximation algorithms can be obtained from existing polynomial-time approximation algorithms, existing parameterized exact algorithms, and existing parameterized approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Barış Can Esmer , Ariel Kulik , Dániel Marx , Daniel Neuen , Roohani Sharma

We develop general methods to obtain fast (polynomial time) estimates of the cardinality of a combinatorially defined set via solving some randomly generated optimization problems on the set. Geometrically, we estimate the cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Barvinok , Alex Samorodnitsky

A major goal in the area of exact exponential algorithms is to give an algorithm for the (worst-case) $n$-input Subset Sum problem that runs in time $2^{(1/2 - c)n}$ for some constant $c>0$. In this paper we give a Subset Sum algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xi Chen , Yaonan Jin , Tim Randolph , Rocco A. Servedio

We give a deterministic algorithm for approximately counting satisfying assignments of a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function (PTF). Given a degree-$d$ input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ over $R^n$ and a parameter $\epsilon> 0$, our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Anindya De , Rocco Servedio

In the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problem, the input is an $m\times n$ matrix $M$ with non-negative entries and the goal is to factorize it as $M\approx AW$. The $m\times k$ matrix $A$ and the $k\times n$ matrix $W$ are both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Moses Charikar , Lunjia Hu

We consider a natural generalization of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan. In our extension the set of jobs is partitioned into several classes and a machine requires a setup whenever it switches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Alexander Mäcker

We prove that the logarithm of the permanent of an nxn real matrix A and the logarithm of the hafnian of a 2nx2n real symmetric matrix A can be approximated within an additive error 1 > epsilon > 0 by a polynomial p in the entries of A of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Alexander Barvinok

It is well known that, using fast algorithms for polynomial multiplication and division, evaluation of a polynomial $F \in \mathbb{C}[x]$ of degree $n$ at $n$ complex-valued points can be done with $\tilde{O}(n)$ exact field operations in…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Alexander Kobel , Michael Sagraloff

The problem of finding a nontrivial factor of a polynomial f(x) over a finite field F_q has many known efficient, but randomized, algorithms. The deterministic complexity of this problem is a famous open question even assuming the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Manuel Arora , Gábor Ivanyos , Marek Karpinski , Nitin Saxena

A polynomial-time algorithm for computing the permanent in any field of characteristic 3 is presented in this article. The principal objects utilized for that purpose are the Cauchy and Vandermonde matrices, the discriminant function and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-08-28 Vadim Tarin

We exhibit a randomized algorithm which given a matrix $A\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ with $\|A\|\le 1$ and $\delta>0$, computes with high probability an invertible $V$ and diagonal $D$ such that $\|A-VDV^{-1}\|\le \delta$ using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Jess Banks , Jorge Garza-Vargas , Archit Kulkarni , Nikhil Srivastava

We show that the absolute value of the determinant of a matrix with random independent (but not necessarily iid) entries is strongly concentrated around its mean. As an application, we show that the Godsil-Gutman and Barvinok estimators for…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Kevin P. Costello , Van Vu

We prove that any polynomial-time $\alpha(n)$-approximation algorithm for the $n$-vertex metric asymmetric Traveling Salesperson Problem yields a polynomial-time $O(\alpha(C))$-approximation algorithm for the mixed and windy Capacitated Arc…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-14 René van Bevern , Christian Komusiewicz , Manuel Sorge