A near-linear pseudopolynomial time algorithm for subset sum

K Bringmann - Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2017 - SIAM
Given a set Z of n positive integers and a target value t, the SuBSETSuM problem asks
whether any subset of Z sums to t. A textbook pseudopolynomial time algorithm by Bellman …

SETH-based lower bounds for subset sum and bicriteria path

A Abboud, K Bringmann, D Hermelin… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Subset Sumand k-SAT are two of the most extensively studied problems in computer
science, and conjectures about their hardness are among the cornerstones of fine-grained …

A subquadratic approximation scheme for partition

M Mucha, K Węgrzycki, M Włodarczyk - … of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2019 - SIAM
The subject of this paper is the time complexity of approximating Knapsack, Subset Sum,
Partition, and some other related problems. The main result is an Õ (n+ 1/ε 5/3) time …

Top-𝑘-convolution and the quest for near-linear output-sensitive subset sum

K Bringmann, V Nakos - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In the classical SubsetSum problem we are given a set X and a target t, and the task is to
decide whether there exists a subset of X which sums to t. A recent line of research has …

Dense subset sum may be the hardest

P Austrin, M Koivisto, P Kaski, J Nederlof - arxiv preprint arxiv:1508.06019, 2015 - arxiv.org
The Subset Sum problem asks whether a given set of $ n $ positive integers contains a
subset of elements that sum up to a given target $ t $. It is an outstanding open question …

Improving Schroeppel and Shamir's algorithm for subset sum via orthogonal vectors

J Nederlof, K Węgrzycki - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present an O∗(20.5 n) time and O∗(20.249999 n) space randomized algorithm for
solving worst-case Subset Sum instances with n integers. This is the first improvement over …

A fine-grained perspective on approximating subset sum and partition

K Bringmann, V Nakos - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on …, 2021 - SIAM
Approximating SubsetSum is a classic and fundamental problem in computer science and
mathematical optimization. The state-of-the-art approximation scheme for SubsetSum …

Equal-subset-sum faster than the meet-in-the-middle

M Mucha, J Nederlof, J Pawlewicz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
In the Equal-Subset-Sum problem, we are given a set $ S $ of $ n $ integers and the
problem is to decide if there exist two disjoint nonempty subsets $ A, B\subseteq S $, whose …

Average-case subset balancing problems

X Chen, Y **, T Randolph, RA Servedio - … of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2022 - SIAM
Given a set of n input integers, the Equal Subset Sum problem asks us to find two distinct
subsets with the same sum. In this paper we present an algorithm that runs in time …

Faster Space-Efficient Algorithms for Subset Sum, -Sum, and Related Problems

N Bansal, S Garg, J Nederlof, N Vyas - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2018 - SIAM
We present randomized algorithms that solve subset sum and knapsack instances with n
items in O^*(2^0.86n) time, where the O^*(⋅) notation suppresses factors polynomial in the …