5 papers
Hardness of Dynamic Tree Edit Distance and Friends
Bingbing Hu, Jakob Nogler, Barna Saha
String Edit Distance is a more-than-classical problem whose behavior in the dynamic setting, where the strings are updated over time, is well studied. A single-character substituti…
Optimal Graph Reconstruction by Counting Connected Components in Induced Subgraphs
Hadley Black, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha +1
The graph reconstruction problem has been extensively studied under various query models. In this paper, we propose a new query model regarding the number of connected components,…
Subquadratic Algorithms and Hardness for Attention with Any Temperature
Shreya Gupta, Boyang Huang, Barna Saha +2
Despite the popularity of the Transformer architecture, the standard algorithm for computing Attention suffers from quadratic time complexity in context length . Alman and Song…
Average-Case Hardness of Parity Problems: Orthogonal Vectors, k-SUM and More
Mina Dalirrooyfard, Andrea Lincoln, Barna Saha +1
This work establishes conditional lower bounds for average-case {\em parity}-counting versions of the problems -XOR, -SUM, and -OV. The main contribution is a set of self-…
Faster Weighted and Unweighted Tree Edit Distance and APSP Equivalence
Jakob Nogler, Adam Polak, Barna Saha +3
The tree edit distance (TED) between two rooted ordered trees with nodes labeled from an alphabet is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence…