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Daily edition · Algorithms

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02 Oct 2026 edition

87 articles · 3 sources · 87 papers ·

Top topics: Algorithms · AI

Algorithms

Unifying and Extending Strong Simulation of Quantum Circuits

arXiv:2610.00547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We establish functional aggregate queries (FAQs) as a unifying language for exact classical simulation of quantum circuits. A circuit becomes a sum-product query:…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Floris Geerts, Rihan Hai, Matthias Lanzinger, Reinhard Pichler, Emanuel Sallinger, Daniel Unterberger
Algorithms

Improved Lower Bound for Steiner Point Removal

arXiv:2610.00177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the Steiner Point Removal problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with an edge-length function $\ell_G: E\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ and a subset $T\subseteq V$ of…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Chandra Chekuri, Qingyun Chen, Weihao Zhu
Algorithms

Optimal Query Complexity for Ground-State Preparation

arXiv:2609.35668v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We determine the optimal query complexity of ground-state preparation to trace-distance error $\varepsilon$ when an energy threshold in the spectral gap is…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Boyang Chen, Minbo Gao, Xinzhao Wang, Shuo Zhou
Algorithms

A Tight Second-Order Lower Bound for Routing Labels in Trees

arXiv:2610.00310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the designer-port routing-labeling problem, every vertex of a rooted tree receives a binary label and the child edges receive distinct port numbers. Given only the…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Hanqing Li (Peking University)
Algorithms

Solving Hypergraph Laplacian Systems in Almost-Linear Time

arXiv:2604.27651v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For a connected weighted hypergraph, we give a randomized almost-linear-time solver for the Poisson problem for the cut-based hypergraph Laplacian in the natural input…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Yuichi Yoshida
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Convergence of Kikuchi matrices to $\Gamma$-independent and $q$-Gaussian limits

arXiv:2610.02008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kikuchi matrices are a family of structured matrices that were introduced to study problems involving tensors and hypergraphs. We show that, as the ambient dimension…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Afonso S. Bandeira, Dmitriy Kunisky, Petar Nizi\'c-Nikolac, Lucas Pesenti, Robert Wang
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Stable and Online Algorithms for Random Matrix Discrepancy

arXiv:2610.01591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the average-case matrix discrepancy problem: given independent normalized $d\times d$ Gaussian orthogonal ensemble matrices $A_1,\dots,A_N$ and a fixed margin…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Eren C. K{\i}z{\i}lda\u{g}, Shuangping Li
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Ranking and Rank Aggregation with Matroid Prefix Constraints

arXiv:2607.07153v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study ranking and rank aggregation under the Kendall tau distance, subject to matroid or flag matroid constraints on prefixes of the output ranking. In the…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Seiei Ando, Yu Yokoi
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Query-efficient winner prediction in district-based elections

arXiv:2610.00577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a district-based election, N voters are partitioned into k districts, and each voter votes for one of m candidates. Each district elects a winner using the plurality…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Koustav De, Debajyoti Kar, Swagato Sanyal
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Testing Bipartiteness in Logarithmic Rounds

arXiv:2606.13583v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The seminal work of Goldreich and Ron (\textit{Combinatorica, 1999}) showed that bipartiteness of bounded-degree graphs can be tested using $O(\sqrt{n\log n})$ random…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Yumou Fei, Ronitt Rubinfeld
Algorithms

Settling the Pass Complexity of Streaming Set Cover

arXiv:2610.01007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the streaming set cover problem, $m$ sets from a universe of size $n$ are arriving one by one in a stream, and the algorithm is allowed to process the stream using one…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Sepehr Assadi, Janani Sundaresan
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A computational phase diagram for the transverse field Ising model

arXiv:2610.02079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the transverse field Ising model, defined by the Hamiltonian $H =\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i, j\in [n]} J_{ij} Z_i Z_j +\sum_{i=1}^n h_i^z Z_i + \eta\sum_{i} X_i$ where…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Thuy-Duong Vuong
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Exact Universality of Online Discrepancy

arXiv:2610.00103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study online vector balancing with $N$ random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^M$ revealed sequentially, where each vector must be assigned an irrevocable sign upon arrival.…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Sunghyeon Jo, Taekyun Lee
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Optimal T Counts under Sparsity: from QROM to State Preparation and Block Encoding

arXiv:2607.28260v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many quantum algorithms require coherent access to classical data, often modeled by quantum read-only memory (QROM). We initiate the study of the $\mathrm{T}$…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Tongyang Li, Fengning Ou, Xinzhao Wang, Penghui Yao, Pei Yuan, Shengyu Zhang
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Total Variation Distance Estimation through Domain Reduction

arXiv:2609.18707v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computing the total variation (TV) distance between succinctly represented high-dimensional distributions is generally intractable. We give an FPRAS for TV distance…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Arnab Bhattacharyya, Graham Cormode, Yucheng Fu, Kuldeep S. Meel
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Quantum Query Complexity for List Search

arXiv:2609.38736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Searching in a linked list is one of the most basic problems in classical algorithms. Although the nodes of the list come with memory addresses, classically those…

Source: arXiv cs.DS Niranka Banerjee, Akinori Kawachi

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