NP-hardness of p-adic linear regression

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Main Author: Baker, Gregory D.
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Published: 2026
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contents $p$-adic linear regression is the problem of finding coefficients $β$ that minimise $\sum_i |y_i - x_i^\topβ|_p$. We prove that computing an optimal solution is NP-hard via a polynomial-time reduction from Max Cut using a regularisation gadget.
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spellingShingle NP-hardness of p-adic linear regression
Baker, Gregory D.
Computational Complexity
Number Theory
68Q17
F.2.2; F.1.3
$p$-adic linear regression is the problem of finding coefficients $β$ that minimise $\sum_i |y_i - x_i^\topβ|_p$. We prove that computing an optimal solution is NP-hard via a polynomial-time reduction from Max Cut using a regularisation gadget.
title NP-hardness of p-adic linear regression
topic Computational Complexity
Number Theory
68Q17
F.2.2; F.1.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13278