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Reports tagged with sparsification:
TR10-038 | 10th March 2010
Dieter van Melkebeek, Holger Dell

Satisfiability Allows No Nontrivial Sparsification Unless The Polynomial-Time Hierarchy Collapses

Revisions: 1

Consider the following two-player communication process to decide a language $L$: The first player holds the entire input $x$ but is polynomially bounded; the second player is computationally unbounded but does not know any part of $x$; their goal is to cooperatively decide whether $x$ belongs to $L$ at small ... more >>>


TR11-131 | 29th September 2011
Rahul Santhanam, Srikanth Srinivasan

On the Limits of Sparsification

Impagliazzo, Paturi and Zane (JCSS 2001) proved a sparsification lemma for $k$-CNFs:
every k-CNF is a sub-exponential size disjunction of $k$-CNFs with a linear
number of clauses. This lemma has subsequently played a key role in the study
of the exact complexity of the satisfiability problem. A natural question is
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TR20-026 | 25th February 2020
Dean Doron, Jack Murtagh, Salil Vadhan, David Zuckerman

Spectral Sparsification via Bounded-Independence Sampling

Revisions: 1

We give a deterministic, nearly logarithmic-space algorithm for mild spectral sparsification of undirected graphs. Given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices described by a binary string of length $N$, an integer $k\leq \log n$ and an error parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, our algorithm runs in space $\tilde{O}(k\log (N\cdot ... more >>>


TR26-077 | 15th May 2026
Joshua Brakensiek, Venkatesan Guruswami

Redundancy Is All You Need (for CSP Sparsification)

The seminal work of Benczu}r and Karger demonstrated cut sparsifiers of near-linear size, with several applications throughout theoretical computer science. Subsequent extensions have yielded sparsifiers for hypergraph cuts and more recently linear codes over Abelian groups. A decade ago, Kogan and Krauthgamer asked about the sparsifiability of arbitrary constraint satisfaction ... more >>>


TR26-087 | 29th May 2026
Flavio Chierichetti, Mirko Giacchini, Ravi Kumar, Alessandro Panconesi, Erasmo Tani, Andrew Tomkins

Tight Bounds for Sketching Intersecting Sets, with Applications

Revisions: 1

In this work, we study the space complexity of sketching the intersection profile of a distribution $D$ on $2^{[n]}$. Specifically, we seek a succinct data structure that, for any query set $S \subseteq [n]$, approximates the quantity $\Pr_{T \sim D}[T \cap S \neq \emptyset]$ to within a small constant additive ... more >>>


TR26-132 | 4th August 2026
Arpon Basu, Joshua Brakensiek, Yeyuan Chen, Aaron (Louie) Putterman, Victor Reis, Zihan Zhang

Optimal Sparsifiers for Minkowski Sums and Sums of Seminorms

We extend the recent work of Reis and Rothvoss on sparsifying sums of $\ell_1$ norms to the more general task of sparsifying (Minkowski) sums of centrally symmetric, convex sets. As our main result, we prove that for any $\varepsilon > 0$ and centrally symmetric, convex sets $C_1, \ldots, C_m\subseteq\mathbb R^n$ ... more >>>




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