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Josh Alman

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#edge computing Preprint Oct 2026

Truly Subquadratic 3SUM and Truly Subcubic APSP via Triangles in Sparse Lopsided Graphs

The first polynomial improvements over the textbook algorithms for 3-SUM and All-Pairs Shortest Paths are given, and the Exact Triangle hypothesis is refuted, and the All-Edges Sparse Triangle problem is solved in truly subquadratic time on sparse lopsided tripartite graphs.

Josh Alman, Virginia Vassilevska Williams · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Improving the matrix multiplication exponent with modern optimization and AlphaEvolve

The current best bounds on the matrix multiplication exponent $\omega$ are obtained through a refinement of the laser method called combination loss analysis (Duan et al., 2022; Williams et al., 2024; Alman et al., 2025). In this note, we address the optimization problem at the core of this approach and propose several...

Emilien Dupont, Marvin Eisenberger, Borislav Kozlovskii et al. · 5 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

An algorithm for $k$-set cover

We show that set cover on a universe of size $n$ and with sets of size at most $k$ can be solved in time $2^{(1-1/k+O(1/k^{3/2}))n}$. This improves on a $2^{(1-0.929/k)n}$-time algorithm of Bj\"orklund (STACS 2010) for all sufficiently large $k$.

Josh Alman, Baitian Li, Kevin Pratt · 0 citations

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