Dynamic Trace Estimation
- Prathamesh DharangutteChristopher Musco
- 26 October 2021
Computer Science, Mathematics
A practical algorithm for solving the implicit trace estimation problem is presented and it is proved that, in a natural setting, its complexity is quadratically better than the standard solution of repeatedly applying Hutchinson's stochastic trace estimator.
A Tight Analysis of Hutchinson's Diagonal Estimator
- Prathamesh DharangutteChristopher Musco
- 5 August 2022
Mathematics
Let $\mathbf{A}\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a matrix with diagonal $\text{diag}(\mathbf{A})$ and let $\bar{\mathbf{A}}$ be $\mathbf{A}$ with its diagonal set to all zeros. We show that Hutchinson's…
Metric Clustering and MST with Strong and Weak Distance Oracles
- M. BateniPrathamesh DharangutteRajesh JayaramChen Wang
- 24 October 2023
Computer Science, Mathematics
This model captures the increasingly common trade-off between employing both an expensive similarity model and a less accurate but cheaper model, and gives constant factor approximation algorithms with only strong oracle point queries, and proves that $\Omega(k)$ queries are required for any bounded approximation.
Learning-augmented Maximum Independent Set
- Vladimir BravermanPrathamesh DharangutteVihan ShahChen Wang
- 16 July 2024
Computer Science, Mathematics
This work shows an algorithm that obtains an $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{\Delta}/\varepsilon)$-approximation in $O(m)$ time where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph.
An Energy-Based View of Graph Neural Networks
- John Y. ShinPrathamesh Dharangutte
- 27 April 2021
Computer Science
This work considers combining graph neural networks with the energy-based view of Grathwohl et al. (2019) with the aim of obtaining a more robust classifier, and proposes a novel method to ensure generation over features as well as the adjacency matrix.
Hardness and Approximation Algorithms for Balanced Districting Problems
- Prathamesh DharangutteJie GaoShang-En HuangFang-Yi Yu
- 28 January 2025
Computer Science, Mathematics
NP-hardness for an approximation better than $n^{1/2-\delta}$ for any constant $\delta>0$ in general graphs even when the districts are star graphs is shown, as well as NP-hardness on complete graphs, tree graphs, planar graphs and other restricted settings.
The Price of Privacy For Approximating Max-CSP
- Prathamesh DharangutteJingcheng LiuPasin ManurangsiAkbar RafieyPhanu VajanopathZongrui Zou
- 9 February 2026
Computer Science, Mathematics
This work studies approximation algorithms for Maximum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Max-CSPs) under differential privacy (DP) where the constraints are considered sensitive data and devise a polynomial-time algorithm which matches this barrier under the assumptions that the instances are bounded-degree and triangle-free.
Fully Dynamic Adversarially Robust Correlation Clustering in Polylogarithmic Update Time
- Vladimir BravermanPrathamesh DharangutteShreyas PaiVihan ShahChen Wang
- 15 November 2024
Computer Science, Mathematics
The main technical ingredient is an algorithm that maintains $\textit{sparse-dense decomposition}$ with $\text{polylog}{(n)}$ update time, which could be of independent interest.
Integer Subspace Differential Privacy
- Prathamesh DharangutteJie GaoRuobin GongFang-Yi Yu
- 2 December 2022
Computer Science, Mathematics
This work proposes integer subspace differential privacy to rigorously articulate the privacy guarantee when data products maintain both the invariants and integer characteristics, and demonstrates the composition and post-processing properties of the proposal.
Relative Error Fair Clustering in the Weak-Strong Oracle Model
- Vladimir BravermanPrathamesh Dharangutte Samson Zhou
- 14 June 2025
Computer Science, Mathematics
This work achieves the first $(1+\varepsilon)-coresets for fair $k$-median clustering using $\text{poly}\left(\frac{k}{\varepsilon}\cdot\log n\right)$ queries to the strong oracle, and implies coresets for the standard setting (without fairness constraints).
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