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Dense Subset Sum May Be the Hardest
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The Subset Sum problem asks whether a given set of n positive integers contains a subset of elements that sum up to a given target t. It is an outstanding open question whether the O * (2 n/2)-time algorithm for Subset Sum by Horowitz and Sahni [J. ACM 1974] can be beaten in the worst-case setting by a "truly faster", O * (2 (0.5−δ)n)-time algorithm, with some constant δ > 0. Continuing an earlier work [STACS 2015], we study Subset Sum parameterized by the maximum bin size β, defined as the
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