Note: When clicking on a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number, you will be taken to an external site maintained by the publisher.
Some full text articles may not yet be available without a charge during the embargo (administrative interval).
What is a DOI Number?
Some links on this page may take you to non-federal websites. Their policies may differ from this site.
-
In the minimum eigenvalue problem, we are given a collection of vectors and the goal is to pick a subset B to maximize the minimum eigenvalue of the matrix formed by the sum of their outer products. We give a -time randomized algorithm that finds an assignment subject to a partition constraint whose minimum eigenvalue is at least $$1-\epsilon$$ times the optimum, with high probability. As a byproduct, we also get a simple algorithm for an algorithmic version of Kadison-Singer problem.more » « lessFree, publicly-accessible full text available November 1, 2025
-
We study a unified approach and algorithm for constructive discrepancy minimization based on a stochastic process. By varying the parameters of the process, one can recover various state-of-the-art results. We demonstrate the flexibility of the method by deriving a discrepancy bound for smoothed instances, which interpolates between known bounds for worst-case and random instances.more » « less
-
Buchin, Kevin; Colin de Verdi\` (Ed.)The Gibbs Sampler is a general method for sampling high-dimensional distributions, dating back to 1971. In each step of the Gibbs Sampler, we pick a random coordinate and re-sample that coordinate from the distribution induced by fixing all the other coordinates. While it has become widely used over the past half-century, guarantees of efficient convergence have been elusive. We show that for a convex body K in ℝⁿ with diameter D, the mixing time of the Coordinate Hit-and-Run (CHAR) algorithm on K is polynomial in n and D. We also give a lower bound on the mixing rate of CHAR, showing that it is strictly worse than hit-and-run and the ball walk in the worst case.more » « less
An official website of the United States government

Full Text Available