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Faster Deterministic Modular Subset Sum

Author Krzysztof Potępa

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  • Theory of computation → Data structures design and analysis
  • Theory of computation → Algorithm design techniques
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  • Modular Subset Sum
  • String Problem
  • Segment Tree
  • Data Structure

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Abstract

We consider the Modular Subset Sum problem: given a multiset X of integers from ℤ_m and a target integer t, decide if there exists a subset of X with a sum equal to t (mod m). Recent independent works by Cardinal and Iacono (SOSA'21), and Axiotis et al. (SOSA'21) provided simple and near-linear algorithms for this problem. Cardinal and Iacono gave a randomized algorithm that runs in 𝒪(m log m) time, while Axiotis et al. gave a deterministic algorithm that runs in 𝒪(m polylog m) time. Both results work by reduction to a text problem, which is solved using a dynamic strings data structure.
In this work, we develop a simple data structure, designed specifically to handle the text problem that arises in the algorithms for Modular Subset Sum. Our data structure, which we call the shift-tree, is a simple variant of a segment tree. We provide both a hashing-based and a deterministic variant of the shift-trees.
We then apply our data structure to the Modular Subset Sum problem and obtain two algorithms. The first algorithm is Monte-Carlo randomized and matches the 𝒪(m log m) runtime of the Las-Vegas algorithm by Cardinal and Iacono. The second algorithm is fully deterministic and runs in 𝒪(m log m ⋅ α(m)) time, where α is the inverse Ackermann function.

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Krzysztof Potępa. Faster Deterministic Modular Subset Sum. In 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 204, pp. 76:1-76:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.76

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Krzysztof Potępa
  • Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Lech Duraj, Krzysztof Pióro, and Adam Polak for their help with preparing the paper, and the anonymous reviewers for their useful suggestions.

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