English
Related papers

Related papers: A simple polynomial time algorithm to approximate …

200 papers

There have been several algorithms designed to optimise matrix multiplication. From schoolbook method with complexity $O(n^3)$ to advanced tensor-based tools with time complexity $O(n^{2.3728639})$ (lowest possible bound achieved), a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Shrohan Mohapatra

We consider an equation of multiple variables in which a partial derivative does not vanish at a point. The implicit function theorem provides a local existence and uniqueness of the function for the equation. In this paper, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Kyung Soo Rim

Edit distance is a measure of similarity of two strings based on the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into the other. The edit distance can be computed exactly using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Elazar Goldenberg , Michal Koucky , Michael Saks

We introduce efficient $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithms for the binary matrix factorization (BMF) problem, where the inputs are a matrix $\mathbf{A}\in\{0,1\}^{n\times d}$, a rank parameter $k>0$, as well as an accuracy parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ameya Velingker , Maximilian Vötsch , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

This paper presents a polynomial-time $1/2$-approximation algorithm for maximizing nonnegative $k$-submodular functions. This improves upon the previous $\max\{1/3, 1/(1+a)\}$-approximation by Ward and \v{Z}ivn\'y~(SODA'14), where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Satoru Iwata , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Yuichi Yoshida

We consider filtering for a continuous-time, or asynchronous, stochastic system where the full distribution over states is too large to be stored or calculated. We assume that the rate matrix of the system can be compactly represented and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-02-20 E. Busra Celikkaya , Christian R. Shelton , William Lam

We present a polynomial time algorithm, which solves a nonstandard Variation of the well-known PARTITION-problem: Given positive integers $n, k$ and $t$ such that $t \geq n$ and $k \cdot t = {n+1 \choose 2}$, the algorithm partitions the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alexander Büchel , Ulrich Gilleßen , Kurt-Ulrich Witt

A polynomial-time algorithm is produced which, given generators for a group of permutations on a finite set, returns a direct product decomposition of the group into directly indecomposable subgroups. The process uses bilinear maps and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-14 James B. Wilson

We design a 3/2 approximation algorithm for the Generalized Steiner Tree problem (GST) in metrics with distances 1 and 2. This is the first polynomial time approximation algorithm for a wide class of non-geometric metric GST instances with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-12 Piotr Berman , Marek Karpinski , Alex Zelikovsky

In this paper we consider the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a d-regular bipartite graph on 2n nodes with m=nd edges. The best-known algorithm for general bipartite graphs (due to Hopcroft and Karp) takes time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Given a string $s$ of length $n$ over a general alphabet and an integer $k$, the problem is to decide whether $s$ is a concatenation of $k$ nonempty palindromes. Two previously known solutions for this problem work in time $O(kn)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Mikhail Rubinchik , Arseny M. Shur

We give a simple polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the total variation distance between two product distributions.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Weiming Feng , Heng Guo , Mark Jerrum , Jiaheng Wang

Have you ever wanted to multiply an $n \times d$ matrix $X$, with $n \gg d$, on the left by an $m \times n$ matrix $\tilde G$ of i.i.d. Gaussian random variables, but could not afford to do it because it was too slow? In this work we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Michael Kapralov , Vamsi K. Potluru , David P. Woodruff

The papers shows an algorithm to search for approximations of reals to rationals of the form a/b^2 that runs on \sqrt(b) polynomial time steps.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Jimenez Calvo

Suppose $F:=(f_1,\ldots,f_n)$ is a system of random $n$-variate polynomials with $f_i$ having degree $\leq\!d_i$ and the coefficient of $x^{a_1}_1\cdots x^{a_n}_n$ in $f_i$ being an independent complex Gaussian of mean $0$ and variance…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Grigoris Paouris , Kaitlyn Phillipson , J. Maurice Rojas

We study the $k$-center problem in the context of individual fairness. Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in a metric space and $r_x$ be the distance between $x \in P$ and its $\lceil n/k \rceil$-th nearest neighbor. The problem asks to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Matthijs Ebbens , Nicole Funk , Jan Höckendorff , Christian Sohler , Vera Weil

Let K be a global field and f in K[X] be a polynomial. We present an efficient algorithm which factors f in polynomial time.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Belabas , M. van Hoeij , J. Klueners , A. Steel

We propose an algorithm for quickly evaluating polynomials. It pre-conditions a complex polynomial $P$ of degree $d$ in time $O(d\log d)$, with a low multiplicative constant independent of the precision. Subsequent evaluations of $P$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Ramona Anton , Nicolae Mihalache , François Vigneron

Many problems are NP-hard and, unless P = NP, do not admit polynomial-time exact algorithms. The fastest known exact algorithms exactly usually take time exponential in the input size. Much research effort has gone into obtaining faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Stefan Kratsch , Pascal Kunz