Questions tagged [reference-request]
Questions requesting papers in the literature on specific, narrow issues.
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Tight approximation for the chromatic number of an arbitrary graph in polynomial space and time
I am looking for an algorithm for approximating the chromatic number of an undirected simple graph with $n$ vertices in $O(n^{c_1})$ time and $O(n^{c_2})$ space, for some constants $c_1$ and $c_2$. ...
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What the the most efficient and effective VM ISA/computational model format backed by research?
The JVM and CLR are stack based machine are very efficient, mainly due to the investment in these platforms than an efficiency and effectiveness of stack based VMs.
For en entity that does not have ...
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Cloud computing application [closed]
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I want to analyze the potential of a cloud computing application that performs payroll and invoicing over the Internet from a large Internet company.I want also to describe the systems ...
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Extending the token bucket algorithm
I've been looking at implementing a local rate limiting solution satisfying certain guarantees. I've found surprisingly little literature on the extensions of the token bucket algorithm to hierarchies....
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Spanning hypertree which connects the vertices as slowly as possible
I want to find a reference for the following problem or a similar problem for my paper. I found a greedy algorithm for this problem, but writing such an algorithm in a paper is not common in my area, ...
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Is there a graph theory textbook that covers treewidth thoroughly?
Can someone recommend a graph theory textbook that covers treewidth thoroughly?
Something that focuses on the graph-theoretic structure of bounded treewidth graphs rather than solving problems on them....
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What is a task type?
I have an unlabeled dataset: 500 X-rays of seeds in husk. In each image there are different number of seeds, for instance, from $10$ to $50$.
A seed has some features. The main features are a seeds' ...
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Modern vs. original formulations of Rice's theorem
Rice's theorem states that any nontrivial semantic property of Turing machines is undecidable.
However, when I opened “Classes of recursively enumerable sets and their decision problems” by H. G. Rice,...
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Reference asking : High Performance Computer Architecture
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Pipelining: Basic concepts, instruction and arithmetic pipeline, data hazards, control
hazards, and structural hazards, techniques for handling hazards. Exception handling.
Pipeline ...
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linear time nash equilibirum aproximations for two player zero sum games
I'm working on an AI for a game where I'd like the game where each player has hundreds of moves to select from and so the game matrix has 10s of thousands of entries. The game is however zero sum. ...
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Anthology of term indexing
I'm interested in finding the most appropriate analogy of a data structure to describe organization/access of genetic information in cells. We humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes - each pair ...
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bounding the height of stack when checking acceptance pushdown automaton
Let $A$ be a nondeterministic PDA (with empty stack acceptance). I am looking for a reference for a statement of the following form.
There exists a constant $c$, computable from $A$, such that:
if $w$...
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“Close” Graph Coloring?
I haven't been able to find whether this problem has been studied: we are given a graph $G$ and an ordered list of $k$ colors $L = [\ell_1, \cdots, \ell_k]$. Additionally, we are given a positive ...
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Distributed Serializable Snapshot Isolation
I was wondering if there is any research on distributed transaction algorithms for Serializable Snapshot Isolation. I found Binnig, C. et al.: Distributed snapshot isolation: global transactions pay ...
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Given a list of integer rectangle areas, find all integer rectangles that they can tile
Is there an efficient algorithm that takes in a list (multiset) of integer rectangle areas and finds all possible integer rectangle tilings?
Every integer rectangle area in the list (multiset) must be ...
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Textbooks about the verification of computer programs that use Z as the specification language
I'm looking for textbooks/lecture notes about the verification of computer programs, i.e. proving their correctness, that use Z as the specification language against which the correctness is verified.
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What is a good reference for NP hardness in the machine learning/optimization/operations research context?
I am reading some papers in machine learning and at the very beginning (introduction) you will see statements of theorems that says, for example:
Theorem 1.1. For any constant ϵ > 0, it is NP-hard ...
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Bottleneck TSP with repeated nodes
I am aware that the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and the bottleneck TSP problem is NP-hard for complete directed graphs. I am also aware that regular TSP that allows a path with repeating is also ...
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How to tell if a grammar is LALR(1) formally?
There is an “informal” definition of $\operatorname{LR}(k)$ (can be recognised by a parser that looks at $k$ symbols ahead) and a “formal” one (as a property of the set of rightmost derivations ...
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A voting scheme where votes are scriptable
I am looking for literature on mathematical models of (political) voting schemes. Concretely, I am interested in models that allow votes of the following form:
"I am voting for $X$, but only if $...
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Has category theory had an impact on computer science?
I've only learned bit of category theory, but so far its relation to type systems seems mostly descriptive. For example, you really don't need to know about coproducts to come up with the idea of ...
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Is there any research on allocating memory across multiple non-contiguous regions?
From my understanding, malloc and-the-like allocate contiguous blocks of memory. It then returns to you the start address of the memory block.
This (and other ...
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Algorithms that must compute a global property?
Could you give me examples of polynomial-time algorithms that must compute a global property over their entire input? A purely illustrative example of this might be a graph algorithm that somehow must ...
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Longest Path Problem on Graphs of Bounded Clique-Width
The wikipedia article mentions:
For graphs of bounded clique-width, the longest path can also be solved by a polynomial time dynamic programming algorithm.
However there are no references and I wasn'...
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Distributed predicate computation on event stream
My question is actually a request for papers, articles, texts or books on the problem that I'm trying to solve on my work.
I'm working on a program that computes a predicate value (true or false) for ...
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Books on scientific computing, efficent NN inference, and matrix multipication
I'm trying to learn more about how inference, matrix multiplication, and scientific computing (primarily with tensors/matrices). I'm not sure what the classics here are or what good sources are. I'm ...
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Strategies for event-driven concurrency
Is there any good formal investigation or at least definition of different strategies of event-driven concurrent programming?
I've read that there exist readiness based (pull based) and completion ...
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Error in pivot selection algorithm for merge phase [Sorting]
In the paper Comparison Based Sorting for Systems with Multiple GPUs, the authors describe the selection of a pivot element with respect to the partition on the first GPU (and its mirrored counterpart ...
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Reference for counting the number of paths in a DAG
Given a connected DAG I know how to compute the number of paths between two nodes. See e.g. Counting number of paths between two vertices in a DAG .
Is there a reference or name for the algorithm? ...
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Context free languages invariant by “shuffling” right hand side
Given a grammar $G$ for a Context Free language $L$, we can augment it by "shuffling" the right hand side of each production, e.g.:
$A \to BCD$ is expanded to $A \to BCD \; | \; BDC \; | \; ...
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Factoring algorithms after number field sieves
It seems that the General Number Field Sieve (GNFS) became number one and then RSA stopped its factoring challenges and there have been no advances in factoring algorithms besides quantum computers. ...
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Complexity of approximating a function value using queries
I am looking for information on problems of the following kind.
There is a function $f: [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ that is continuous and monotonically-increasing, with $f(0)<0$ and $f(1)>0$. You ...
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Is realization of unit disk graphs hard?
It is known that recognizing a unit disk graph is NP-hard [1].
However, the paper does not mention how hard the realization problem is.
I have looked up several references [2][3][4]. None of the ...
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Does big-Oh impose an ordered partition on the set of the “usual” functions?
The example in this answer proves the fact familiar to CS students - that the "big-O" is not a total order. However, most algorithm running times analyzed using big-Oh notation are not ...
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Functional Programming and Category Theory
I'm a math Ph.D. having done research in Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology in grad school for my thesis and I've studied a fair amount of category theory in the process (e.g. having worked ...
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Algoritm to sample an even subgraph of a graph
In some problems related to the Ising model in physics and mathematics the following problem comes up:
Suppose I have a graph $G$. Then an even spanning subgraph of $G$ is a subgraph where you keep ...
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Books for the Mathematical Theory of AI/ML
I am interested in the mathematical foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Are there any books which will describe and present the mathematical foundations in detail? I am not ...
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What are some advanced background topics I'll need for distributed systems and networks research?
I am a new graduate student in Computer Science who would like to be able to read and understand modern and new distributed systems research papers. My current background / courses and understanding ...
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Advanced Master Theorem?
I have learned the Master's Theorem from the CLRS textbook (2nd Edition), the form of the Master Theorem given in the above text is associated with the proof of each and every case. So at the end I ...
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Reference asking: phase transition in SAT
This is not a technical question, I hope this community has a room for such questions, but I will delete it in case this is inappropriate.
It has been experimentally observed (e.g. here) that when ...
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Partitioning tuples
Given are tuples $(a_{11},\dots,a_{1k}), (a_{21},\dots,a_{2k}), \dots, (a_{n1},\dots,a_{nk})$. We want to know if there is a partition of the tuples into two parts, so that for every coordinate $i=1,\...
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Reference on PCP theorem
Can someone recommend a reference on the PCP theorem that explains how it works via examples rather than formal CS language?
Specifically, I'm looking for the example on how graph colouring can be ...
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Problems for which a small change in the statement causes a big change in time complexity
I know that there are several problems for which a small change in the problem statement would result in a big change in its (time) complexity, or even in its computability.
An example: The ...
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Proof of Hungarian Algorithm Matrix Formulation
Can someone explain or give a reference as to how the Hungarian Algorithm in its matrix formulation always gives a correct answer? I've seen proofs of correctness of the bipartite matching formulation,...
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Misunderstanding of an NP-hard problem, $1||\Sigma w_jU_j$, that has polytime algorithm
The problem $1||\Sigma w_jU_j$ of minimizing the weighted number of tardy jobs in a single machine is NP-hard. This is well known and can be shown by reducing the knapsack problem to it.
Also, when ...
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Examples for derandomization via small sample spaces
People in theoretical computer science stack exchange advises me to ask this question here. I ask the same problem in https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/46668/examples-for-derandomization-...
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Problem with understanding Multi-party security circuit for secure stable matching
I am reading the following paper:
MPCircuits: Optimized Circuit Generation for Secure Multi-Party Computation
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I have following question:
We have two groups shown in the circuit. Why we ...
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Parallel colouring to minimize collisions?
I have a graph in which there is a set of leader vertices $L$. There is no edge between any pair of leader vertices. Each leader vertex $u$ has a common set of colours $C$ and a set of neighbour ...
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Linear programming over a finite field
I have a system of equations $Ax = b$ over some finite field $\mathbb{Z}_p$ and want to find a feasible solution. I'm sure this problem is NP-hard, but I'm struggling to find any literature on the ...
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Is there a theorem which relates calculating the total number of a combinatorial object with picking one at random?
A common algorithmic challenge is to generate an object of a certain kind, uniformly at random. For example, generating a random permutation of size $k$ from a given (multi)set of $N$ characters, as ...
