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A local construction of the Smith normal form of a matrix polynomial
We present an algorithm for computing a Smith form with multipliers of a
regular matrix polynomial over a field. This algorithm differs from previous
ones in that it computes a local Smith form for each irreducible factor in the
determinant separately and then combines them into a global Smith form, whereas
other algorithms apply a sequence of unimodular row and column operations to
the original matrix. The performance of the algorithm in exact arithmetic is
reported for several test cases.Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures; introduction expanded, 10 references added, two
additional tests performe
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Complexity of the stable marriage and stable roommate problems in three dimensions
The stable marriage problem is a matching problem that pairs members of two sets. The objective is to achieve a matching that satisfies all participants based on their preferences. The stable roommate problem is a variant involving only one set, which is partitioned into pairs with a similar objective. There exist asymptotically optimal algorithms that solve both problems.In this paper, we investigate the complexity of three dimensional extensions of these problems. This is one of twelve research directions suggested by Knuth in his book on the stable marriage problem. We show that these problems are NP-complete, and hence it is unlikely that there exist efficient algorithms for their solutions.Applying the polynomial tranformation developed in this paper, we extend the NP-completeness result to include the problem of matching couples - who are both medical school graduates - to pairs of hospital resident positions. This problem is important in practice and is dealth with annually by NRMP, the centralized program that matches all medical school graduates in the United States to available resident positions
Quantum compiling with diffusive sets of gates
Given a set of quantum gates and a target unitary operation, the most
elementary task of quantum compiling is the identification of a sequence of the
gates that approximates the target unitary to a determined precision
. Solovay-Kitaev theorem provides an elegant solution which is
based on the construction of successively tighter `nets' around the unity
comprised by successively longer sequences of gates. The procedure for the
construction of the nets, according to this theorem, requires accessibility to
the inverse of the gates as well. In this work, we propose a method for
constructing nets around unity without this requirement. The algorithmic
procedure is applicable to sets of gates which are diffusive enough, in the
sense that sequences of moderate length cover the space of unitary matrices in
a uniform way. We prove that the number of gates sufficient for reaching a
precision scales as
while the pre-compilation time is increased as compared to thatof the
Solovay-Kitaev algorithm by the exponential factor 3/2.Comment: 6 pages, several corrections in text, figures & bibliograph
Computing periods of rational integrals
A period of a rational integral is the result of integrating, with respect to
one or several variables, a rational function over a closed path. This work
focuses particularly on periods depending on a parameter: in this case the
period under consideration satisfies a linear differential equation, the
Picard-Fuchs equation. I give a reduction algorithm that extends the
Griffiths-Dwork reduction and apply it to the computation of Picard-Fuchs
equations. The resulting algorithm is elementary and has been successfully
applied to problems that were previously out of reach.Comment: To appear in Math. comp. Supplementary material at
http://pierre.lairez.fr/supp/periods
Multilevel Weighted Support Vector Machine for Classification on Healthcare Data with Missing Values
This work is motivated by the needs of predictive analytics on healthcare
data as represented by Electronic Medical Records. Such data is invariably
problematic: noisy, with missing entries, with imbalance in classes of
interests, leading to serious bias in predictive modeling. Since standard data
mining methods often produce poor performance measures, we argue for
development of specialized techniques of data-preprocessing and classification.
In this paper, we propose a new method to simultaneously classify large
datasets and reduce the effects of missing values. It is based on a multilevel
framework of the cost-sensitive SVM and the expected maximization imputation
method for missing values, which relies on iterated regression analyses. We
compare classification results of multilevel SVM-based algorithms on public
benchmark datasets with imbalanced classes and missing values as well as real
data in health applications, and show that our multilevel SVM-based method
produces fast, and more accurate and robust classification results.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.0625
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