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I am looking for algorithmic techniques to solve the Subset Sum Problem in pseudopolynomial time. There is, of course, a textbook dynamic programming approach for Subset Sum. Have any other algorithmic techniques (Randomized, Linear Programming...) been successfully applied to this problem?

In [1], the authors state that "[T]the only algorithm known to solve subset sum (in time polynomial in the numbers involved) is dynamic programming" (page 3). This paper, however, is 8 years old and it might be possible that some progress has been made in the recent past.

[1] Reid Andersen, and Uriel Feige. Interchanging distance and capacity in probabilistic mappings. Available at https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3631v1

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asked Oct 10, 2017 at 9:48
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    $\begingroup$ cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dakane/subsetsum.pdf ​ ​ $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 9:52
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    $\begingroup$ @RickyDemer Perhaps you would like to convert this to a full-fledged answer? $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 10:33

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Yes.

This paper has applied polynomial arithmetic to that problem.

answered Oct 11, 2017 at 14:39
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