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On the Expressiveness of LARA: A Unified Language for Linear and Relational Algebra

Authors: Pablo Barceló, Nelson Higuera, Jorge Pérez, and Bernardo Subercaseaux

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 155, 23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020)


Abstract
We study the expressive power of the Lara language - a recently proposed unified model for expressing relational and linear algebra operations - both in terms of traditional database query languages and some analytic tasks often performed in machine learning pipelines. We start by showing Lara to be expressive complete with respect to first-order logic with aggregation. Since Lara is parameterized by a set of user-defined functions which allow to transform values in tables, the exact expressive power of the language depends on how these functions are defined. We distinguish two main cases depending on the level of genericity queries are enforced to satisfy. Under strong genericity assumptions the language cannot express matrix convolution, a very important operation in current machine learning operations. This language is also local, and thus cannot express operations such as matrix inverse that exhibit a recursive behavior. For expressing convolution, one can relax the genericity requirement by adding an underlying linear order on the domain. This, however, destroys locality and turns the expressive power of the language much more difficult to understand. In particular, although under complexity assumptions the resulting language can still not express matrix inverse, a proof of this fact without such assumptions seems challenging to obtain.

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Pablo Barceló, Nelson Higuera, Jorge Pérez, and Bernardo Subercaseaux. On the Expressiveness of LARA: A Unified Language for Linear and Relational Algebra. In 23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 155, pp. 6:1-6:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{barcelo_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.6,
  author =	{Barcel\'{o}, Pablo and Higuera, Nelson and P\'{e}rez, Jorge and Subercaseaux, Bernardo},
  title =	{{On the Expressiveness of LARA: A Unified Language for Linear and Relational Algebra}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-139-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{155},
  editor =	{Lutz, Carsten and Jung, Jean Christoph},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119305},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: languages for linear and relational algebra, expressive power, first order logic with aggregation, matrix convolution, matrix inverse, query genericity, locality of queries, safety}
}
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On Guillotine Cutting Sequences

Authors: Fidaa Abed, Parinya Chalermsook, José Correa, Andreas Karrenbauer, Pablo Pérez-Lantero, José A. Soto, and Andreas Wiese

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 40, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)


Abstract
Imagine a wooden plate with a set of non-overlapping geometric objects painted on it. How many of them can a carpenter cut out using a panel saw making guillotine cuts, i.e., only moving forward through the material along a straight line until it is split into two pieces? Already fifteen years ago, Pach and Tardos investigated whether one can always cut out a constant fraction if all objects are axis-parallel rectangles. However, even for the case of axis-parallel squares this question is still open. In this paper, we answer the latter affirmatively. Our result is constructive and holds even in a more general setting where the squares have weights and the goal is to save as much weight as possible. We further show that when solving the more general question for rectangles affirmatively with only axis-parallel cuts, this would yield a combinatorial O(1)-approximation algorithm for the Maximum Independent Set of Rectangles problem, and would thus solve a long-standing open problem. In practical applications, like the mentioned carpentry and many other settings, we can usually place the items freely that we want to cut out, which gives rise to the two-dimensional guillotine knapsack problem: Given a collection of axis-parallel rectangles without presumed coordinates, our goal is to place as many of them as possible in a square-shaped knapsack respecting the constraint that the placed objects can be separated by a sequence of guillotine cuts. Our main result for this problem is a quasi-PTAS, assuming the input data to be quasi-polynomially bounded integers. This factor matches the best known (quasi-polynomial time) result for (non-guillotine) two-dimensional knapsack.

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Fidaa Abed, Parinya Chalermsook, José Correa, Andreas Karrenbauer, Pablo Pérez-Lantero, José A. Soto, and Andreas Wiese. On Guillotine Cutting Sequences. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 40, pp. 1-19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)


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@InProceedings{abed_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.1,
  author =	{Abed, Fidaa and Chalermsook, Parinya and Correa, Jos\'{e} and Karrenbauer, Andreas and P\'{e}rez-Lantero, Pablo and Soto, Jos\'{e} A. and Wiese, Andreas},
  title =	{{On Guillotine Cutting Sequences}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)},
  pages =	{1--19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-89-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{40},
  editor =	{Garg, Naveen and Jansen, Klaus and Rao, Anup and Rolim, Jos\'{e} D. P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52917},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Guillotine cuts, Rectangles, Squares, Independent Sets, Packing}
}
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