Improved two-source extractors, and affine extractors for polylogarithmic entropy

X Li - 2016 IEEE 57th Annual Symposium on Foundations of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a recent breakthrough [1], Chattopadhyay and Zuckerman gave an explicit two-source
extractor for min-entropy k≥ log C n for some large enough constant C, where n is the …

Combinatorial group testing and sparse recovery schemes with near-optimal decoding time

M Cheraghchi, V Nakos - 2020 IEEE 61st Annual Symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the long-studied problem of combinatorial group testing, one is asked to detect a set of k
defective items out of a population of size n, using m≪ n disjunctive measurements. In the …

Sublinear-Time Non-Adaptive Group Testing With O(k log n) Tests via Bit-Mixing Coding

S Bondorf, B Chen, J Scarlett, H Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a
larger set of items based on tests on groups of items, and is relevant in applications such as …

Sharp threshold results for computational complexity

L Chen, C Jin, RR Williams - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We establish several “sharp threshold” results for computational complexity. For certain
tasks, we can prove a resource lower bound of nc for c≥ 1 (or obtain an efficient circuit …

Dimension-independent sparse Fourier transform

M Kapralov, A Velingker, A Zandieh - … of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2019 - SIAM
Abstract The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is a fundamental computational primitive, and
the fastest known algorithm for computing the DFT is the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) …

For-all sparse recovery in near-optimal time

AC Gilbert, Y Li, E Porat, MJ Strauss - ACM Transactions on Algorithms …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
An approximate sparse recovery system in ℓ1 norm consists of parameters k, ε, N; an m-by-N
measurement Φ; and a recovery algorithm R. Given a vector, x, the system approximates x …

A deterministic sparse FFT for functions with structured Fourier sparsity

S Bittens, R Zhang, MA Iwen - Advances in Computational Mathematics, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, a deterministic sparse Fourier transform algorithm is presented which breaks
the quadratic-in-sparsity runtime bottleneck for a large class of periodic functions exhibiting …

Learning set functions that are sparse in non-orthogonal Fourier bases

C Wendler, A Amrollahi, B Seifert, A Krause… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Many applications of machine learning on discrete domains, such as learning preference
functions in recommender systems or auctions, can be reduced to estimating a set function …

SPRIGHT: A fast and robust framework for sparse Walsh-Hadamard transform

X Li, JK Bradley, S Pawar, K Ramchandran - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of computing the Walsh-Hadamard Transform (WHT) of some $ N
$-length input vector in the presence of noise, where the $ N $-point Walsh spectrum is $ K …

(Nearly) Sample-optimal sparse Fourier transform in any dimension; RIPless and Filterless

V Nakos, Z Song, Z Wang - 2019 IEEE 60th Annual Symposium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the extensively studied problem of computing a k-sparse
approximation to the d-dimensional Fourier transform of a length n signal. Our algorithm …