Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

Hybrid versions of independent and identically distributed weighted Chinese restaurant (WCR) algorithms are developed for inference in semiparametric linear mixed models under minimal assumptions for ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs for ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 87, No. 313 (September 2018), pp. 2189-2232 (44 pages) We develop a surface hopping algorithm based on frozen Gaussian approximation for semiclassical matrix ...