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### Finding top-K items in a sliding window

Imagine we have a stream of bank transactions. Each transaction has a target account and some amount of money. I'd like to find top K accounts over some period of time (e.g. last 7 days) which ...
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### Information and Coding Theory Texts

I am coming from a pure mathematics (in analysis) background and am curious to learn some information and coding theory. I am after some recommendations on texts. Due to my personal background I am ...
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### Recursive generic oracles

In Fenner, Stephen; Fortnow, Lance; Kurtz, Stuart A.; Li, Lide, An oracle builder’s toolkit, Inf. Comput. 182, No. 2, 95-136 (2003). ZBL1025.68041, the authors go through a variety of generic oracles. ...
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### Relationship between Random Graph Theory and TCS

Sorry for this large and vague question. I am a new grad probability student recently interested in random graph theory(RG). I heard from someone in math department that RG has close relationship to ...
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### Are perceptual hashes connected to audio/video compression?

Without loss of generality, I'll only talk about video, but this should apply to any sort of signal. A perceptual hash function (WP) maps videos to fingerprints such that each fingerprint's preimage ...
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### What is a known sequence for which being constant is not provable?

My question concerns the property of being constant for computable functions ${\mathbb N}\to \{0,1\}$, within any common framework $T$ strong enough to include Heyting arithmetic (and of course not ...
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### Input length and calculation time to simulate a quantum measurement

Let us consider $n$ quits $b_i$. Let us start from the state $|0,0,...,0>$ and apply a circuit $C$ composed by $m$ quantum gates, with $m$ polynomial in $n$. The final state is $C|0,0,...,0>$. ...
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### Lower bound for proving a random 3-SAT formula is unsat?

For a random 3-CNF formula with n variables and m clauses, assume this formula is unsat, what is the lower bound for proving it to be unsat? Some results posted in Lower bounds for random 3-SAT via ...
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### Is polynomial-time the same in all classical computational models?

There are many models of computability, all giving the same notion of 'computable function'. To pick a few examples: Turing machines (with variants: one-ended, two-ended, multiple tapes...) RAM ...
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### Are coproduct types redundant in presence of natural numbers and $\Sigma$-types?

In the homotopy type theory book section A.2.5 defines $\Sigma$-types, A.2.6 coproduct types and A.2.9 the natural numbers type. If we already have $\Sigma$-types and the natural numbers type can we ...
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### Fastest exact algorithm for MAXCUT

Is the algorithm introduced in the following paper still the fastest exact algorithm for general MAXCUT problems? TIA Ryan Williams, A new algorithm for optimal $2$-constraint satisfaction and its ...
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### What is the complexity class of higher-order primitive recursion?

Short and sweet: The complexity class of primitive recursive functions (WP) is PR (WP, Zoo). What's the complexity class of higher-order primitive recursion (WP)? The motivating context is simply that ...
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### Questions about the equivalence between PH and depth-d circuits with respect to an oracle

Consider an oracle $A$ and the language $$P(A) = \{x\in \{0, 1\}^{n}: \text{the number of strings in }~A~\text{of length}~|x|~\text{is odd}\}.$$ I am trying to make sense ...
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### Resource on phase transition in MAXCUT problems

Could anyone suggest reading materials on phase transition in MAXCUT problems other than [1]? Thanks. Ref: Coppersmith, Don, David Gamarnik, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, and Gregory B. Sorkin. "...
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### Can I research in web technologies with an academic approach?

I'm an undergraduate computer engineering student. I know that I like to become a researcher in my major in the future. I also work as a junior web developer at a small start-up, and I think I really ...
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### Graph classes where giving a q-clique edge cover makes testing for q-colouring easy

A $q$-clique of a graph is a complete subgraph on $q$ vertices. A $q$-clique edge cover of $G$ is a set of subgraphs of $G$ such that each subgraph is a $q$-clique and each edge of G is contained in ...
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### Prune length distribution of random binary tree

Consider a random binary tree with $N$ leaves. Each node (except the root node) has a degree of exactly three (two children and one parent). No further restriction is placed on the structure of the ...
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### Minimum cut with size bounds $k\leq |S| \leq |V|-k$

It is known by the max flow min cut theorem that the minimum cut problem is in $P$. I am interested in knowing what is known on the complexity of the minimum cut with size $k\leq |S| \leq , |V|- k$. ...
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### Can you embed a Turing Machine into the Pi calculus with just one replication operator?

See title. If it is not universal, then how is the power of the pi calculus with this restriction characterized?
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### What is this structure? (monad with a kind of partial inverse comonad)

I have encountered a structure that looks like a monad with a one-sided inverse and some additional properties. I am not sure which properties of this structure are essential and which are accidental, ...