The problem of finding \emph{distance} between \emph{pattern} of length $m$ and \emph{text} of length $n$ is a typical way of generalizing pattern matching to incorporate dissimilarity score. For both Hamming and $L_1$ distances only a super linear upper bound $\widetilde{O}(n\sqrt{m})$ are known, which prompts the question of relaxing the problem: either by asking for $1 \pm \varepsilon$ appro...

We describe deterministic algorithms which for a given depth-2 circuit $F$ approximate the probability that on a random input $F$ outputs a specific value $\alpha$. Our approach gives an algorithm which for a given $GF[2]$ multivariate polynomial $p$ and given $\varepsilon >0$ approximates the number of zeros of $p$ within a multiplicative factor $1+ \varepsilon$. The algorithm runs in time $ex...

We study transport properties in a simple model of two-dimensional roll convection under a slow periodic (period of order 1/ varepsilon >>1) perturbation. The problem is considered in terms of conservation of the adiabatic invariant. It is shown that the adiabatic invariant is well conserved in the system. It results in almost regular dynamics on large time scales (of order approximately vareps...

In convex stochastic optimization, convergence rates in terms of minimizing the objective have been well-established. However, in terms of making the gradients small, the best known convergence rate was $O(\varepsilon^{-8/3})$ and it was left open how to improve it. In this paper, we improve this rate to $\tilde{O}(\varepsilon^{-2})$, which is optimal up to log factors.

for fr$acute{mathbf{text{e}}}$chet algebras $(a, (p_n))$ and $(b, (q_n))$, a linear map $t:arightarrow b$ is textit{almost multiplicative} with respect to $(p_n)$ and $(q_n)$, if there exists $varepsilongeq 0$ such that $q_n(tab - ta tb)leq varepsilon p_n(a) p_n(b),$ for all $n in mathbb{n}$, $a, b in a$, and it is called textit{weakly almost multiplicative} with respect to $(p_n)$ and $(q_n)$,...

Leveraging recent advances in additive combinatorics, we exhibit explicit matrices satisfying the Restricted Isometry Property with better parameters. Namely, for $$\varepsilon=3.26\cdot 10^{-7}$$ , large $$k$$ and $$k^{2-\varepsilon} \le N\le k^{2+\varepsilon}$$ construct $$n \times N$$ RIP of order $$k = \Omega( n^{1/2+\varepsilon/4)}$$ .

For Fr$acute{mathbf{text{e}}}$chet algebras $(A, (p_n))$ and $(B, (q_n))$, a linear map $T:Arightarrow B$ is textit{almost multiplicative} with respect to $(p_n)$ and $(q_n)$, if there exists $varepsilongeq 0$ such that $q_n(Tab - Ta Tb)leq varepsilon p_n(a) p_n(b),$ for all $n in mathbb{N}$, $a, b in A$, and it is called textit{weakly almost multiplicative} with respect to $(p_n)$ and $(q_n)$...