3 papers
math.CO2026
Powers of the Vandermonde determinant are eventually non-SNP
Thien Le, Melanie Weber
We prove a conjecture of Monical, Tokcan, and Yong that every fixed positive power of the Vandermonde determinant is non-SNP in all sufficiently many variables, where a polynomial…
cs.LG2026
Contrastive Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Graph Coloring
Thien Le, Tianyu Zhao, Melanie Weber
Graph coloring seeks to assigns colors to a graph's nodes so that adjacent nodes receive different colors, using as few colors as possible. Here, we study approximate -coloring,…
cs.LG2026
Towards Distillation Guarantees under Algorithmic Alignment for Combinatorial Optimization
Thien Le, Melanie Weber
Distillation transfers knowledge from a large model trained on broad data to a smaller, more efficient model suitable for deployment. In structured prediction settings, prior knowl…