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Computing a Fixed Point of Contraction Maps in Polynomial Queries

Computational Complexity 2025-08-12 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

We give an algorithm for finding an ϵ\epsilon-fixed point of a contraction map f:[0,1]k[0,1]kf:[0,1]^k\mapsto[0,1]^k under the \ell_\infty-norm with query complexity O(klog(1/ϵ))O (k\log (1/\epsilon ) ).

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@article{arxiv.2403.19911,
  title  = {Computing a Fixed Point of Contraction Maps in Polynomial Queries},
  author = {Xi Chen and Yuhao Li and Mihalis Yannakakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.19911},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Journal version with improved bounds

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:37:53.273Z