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Short path problem on Cayley graphs as language translation task (from "Permutlandski" to "Cayleylandski"(s) :). Reference/suggestion request

Context: Algorithms to find short paths on Cayley graphs of (finite) groups are of some interest - see below. There can be several approaches to that task. One of ideas coming to my mind - in some ...
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Does the permutohedron satisfy any minimal distortion property for graph metric vs Euclidean distance?

We can look on the permutohedron as a kind of "embedding" of the Cayley graph of $S_n$ to the Euclidean space. (That Cayley graph is constructed by the standard generators, i.e. ...
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What Cayley graphs arise as nodes+edges from "nice" polytopes and when are these polytopes convex?

The Permutohedron is a remarkable convex polytope in $R^n$, such that its nodes are indexed by permutations and edges correspond to the Cayley graph of $S_n$ with respect to the standard generators, i....
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Locally "unshortable" paths in graphs

Setup: Consider a connected graph G, with diameter "d". Informally: Trivially (by definition of diameter), taking any path $P$ any nodes $P(i) , P(i+k)$ for $k>d$ can be connected by a ...
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Open problems which might benefit from computational experiments

Question: I wonder what are the open problems , where computational experiments might me helpful? (Setting some bounds, excluding some cases, shaping some expectations ). Grant program: The context of ...
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Sufficient condition for linear separability of a boolean function on $n$ variables

This is a cross-post of two recent questions at math.stackexchange without answers: Q1 and Q2. A boolean function on an $n$-dimensional hypercube is linearly separable when the convex hulls of the ...
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Upper bound on VC-dimension of partitioned class

Fix $n,k\in \mathbb{N}_+$. Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a set of functions from $\mathbb{R}^n$ to $\mathbb{R}$ with finite VC-dimension $d\in \mathbb{N}$. Let $\mathcal{H}_k$ denote the set of maps of the ...
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Shattering of a set of binary classifiers

Let $S$ be a set, and let $\mathcal{F}_{S}=\{f:S\to\{-1,+1\}\}$ be a set of different label assignments. Show that $\mathcal{F}_{S}$ shatters at least $|\mathcal{F}_{S}|$ subsets of $S$. Here is what ...
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Upper bounding VC dimension of an indicator function class

I would like to upper bound the VC dimension of the function class $ F$ defined as follows: $$ F := \left\{ (x,t) \mapsto \mathbb{1} \left( c_Q\min_{q \in Q} {\|x-q \|}_1 - t > 0 \right) \; | \; Q ...
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Generating function for lattice paths making aribitrary (i,j)-up-right move in one step and fitting rectangular (m,n)?

There is the following beautiful formula (see Qiaochu Yuan excellent blog): $$ \sum_{\lambda \in Young~diagrams~fitting~rectangle~m~n} q^{Box~count(="area~under~the~curve")~of~\lambda} = \binom{n+m}{...
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Clustering on tree

I am looking for a method that would identify clusters in a tree-like structure. In the figure below you can see a very simple example where one can visually identify distinct branches with a lot of ...
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On proof of Sauer's lemma

Let $X$ be a (possibly infinite) set. We consider a subset $H$ of the set $\{0,1\}^X$ of functions $X\to\{0,1\}$. Given a finite subset $B\subset X$, we denote by $H_B$ the set of restrictions to $B$ ...
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