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With the increasing application of deep learning in mission-critical systems, there is a growing need to obtain formal guarantees about the behaviors of neural networks. Indeed, many approaches for verifying neural networks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tom Zelazny , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

We establish a sufficient condition for the ultimate positivity of P-recursive sequences of arbitrary order with a unique dominant root. By additionally verifying finitely many initial terms, the positivity can also be resolved. As an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Zhongjie Li

Initiated by Davis, Nelson, Petersen and Tenner (2018), the enumerative study of pinnacle sets of permutations has attracted a fair amount of attention recently. In this article, we provide a recurrence that can be used to compute…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Wenjie Fang

Let $p\geq 3$ be a prime and $n\geq 1$ be an integer. Let $K\subseteq {\mathbb{F}_p}$ denote a fixed subset with $0\in K$. Let $A\subseteq ({\mathbb{F}_p})^n$ be an arbitrary subset such that $$\{…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Gábor Hegedűs

Linear recurrence equations with constant coefficients define the power series coefficients of rational functions. However, one usually prefers to have an explicit formula for the sequence of coefficients, provided that such a formula is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Bertrand Teguia Tabuguia , Wolfram Koepf

The linear complexity of a periodic sequence over $GF(p^m)$ plays an important role in cryptography and communication [12]. In this correspondence, we prove a result which reduces the computation of the linear complexity and minimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Hao Chen

We consider a class of multivariate recurrences frequently arising in the worst case analysis of Davis-Putnam-style exponential time backtracking algorithms for NP-hard problems. We describe a technique for proving asymptotic upper bounds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Eppstein

Deep neural networks are revolutionizing the way complex systems are developed. However, these automatically-generated networks are opaque to humans, making it difficult to reason about them and guarantee their correctness. Here, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yuval Jacoby , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

For a wide class of integer linear recurrence sequences $\left(u(n)\right)_{n=1}^\infty$, we give an upper bound on the number of $s$-tuples $\left(n_1, \ldots, n_s\right) \in \left(\mathbb Z\cap [M+1,M+ N]\right)^s$ such that the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Attila Bérczes , Lajos Hajdu , Alina Ostafe , Igor E. Shparlinski

In the field of reinforcement learning there has been recent progress towards safety and high-confidence bounds on policy performance. However, to our knowledge, no practical methods exist for determining high-confidence policy performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Daniel S. Brown , Scott Niekum

We revisit parallel-innermost term rewriting as a model of parallel computation on inductive data structures and provide a corresponding notion of runtime complexity parametric in the size of the start term. We propose automatic techniques…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Thaïs Baudon , Carsten Fuhs , Laure Gonnord

The linear complexity (LC) of a sequence has been used as a convenient measure of the randomness of a sequence. Based on the theories of linear complexity, $k$-error linear complexity, the minimum error and the $k$-error linear complexity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-22 Jianqin Zhou , Wei Xiong

Several algorithms in computer algebra involve the computation of a power series solution of a given ordinary differential equation. Over finite fields, the problem is often lifted in an approximate $p$-adic setting to be well-posed. This…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Pierre Lairez , Tristan Vaccon

We consider questions related to the computation of the capacity of codes that avoid forbidden difference patterns. The maximal number of $n$-bit sequences whose pairwise differences do not contain some given forbidden difference patterns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vincent D. Blondel , Raphael Jungers , Vladimir Protasov

The standard coherence criterion for lower previsions is expressed using an infinite number of linear constraints. For lower previsions that are essentially defined on some finite set of gambles on a finite possibility space, we present a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Erik Quaeghebeur

Bounds on the entropy of patterns of sequences generated by independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources are derived. A pattern is a sequence of indices that contains all consecutive integer indices in increasing order of first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil I. Shamir

Recurrent neural network (RNN)'s architecture is a key factor influencing its performance. We propose algorithms to optimize hidden sizes under running time constraint. We convert the discrete optimization into a subset selection problem.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-22 Junqi Jin , Ziang Yan , Kun Fu , Nan Jiang , Changshui Zhang

The classical approach to measure the expressive power of deep neural networks with piecewise linear activations is based on counting their maximum number of linear regions. This complexity measure is quite relevant to understand general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yuuki Takai , Akiyoshi Sannai , Matthieu Cordonnier

We introduce the concept of regular expression characteristics as a unified way to concisely express bounds on time-series constraints. This allows us not only to define time-series constraints in a compositional way, but also to deal with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Ekaterina Arafailova , Nicolas Beldiceanu , Helmut Simonis

In this paper, we present a new technique to obtain upper bounds on undirected unicast network information capacity. Using this technique, we characterize an upper bound, called partition bound, on the symmetric rate of information flow in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Satyajit Thakor , Mohammad Ishtiyaq Qureshi