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 ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...