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While efficient randomized algorithms for factorization of polynomials given by algebraic circuits have been known for decades, obtaining an even slightly non-trivial deterministic algorithm for this problem has remained an open question of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Somnath Bhattacharjee , Mrinal Kumar , Varun Ramanathan , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Shubhangi Saraf

We address the black-box polynomial identity testing (PIT) problem for non-commutative polynomials computed by $+$-regular circuits, a class of homogeneous circuits introduced by [AJMR](STOC 2017, Theory of Computing 2019). These circuits…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 G V Sumukha Bharadwaj , S Raja

We study the complexity of representing polynomials as a sum of products of polynomials in few variables. More precisely, we study representations of the form $$P = \sum_{i = 1}^T \prod_{j = 1}^d Q_{ij}$$ such that each $Q_{ij}$ is an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Mrinal Kumar , Shubhangi Saraf

An efficient randomized polynomial identity test for noncommutative polynomials given by noncommutative arithmetic circuits remains an open problem. The main bottleneck to applying known techniques is that a noncommutative circuit of size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Vikraman Arvind , Pushkar Joglekar , Partha Mukhopadhyay , S Raja

We study the identity testing problem in the context of spin systems or undirected graphical models, where it takes the following form: given the parameter specification of the model $M$ and a sampling oracle for the distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Ivona Bezakova , Antonio Blanca , Zongchen Chen , Daniel Štefankovič , Eric Vigoda

A polynomial identity testing algorithm must determine whether an input polynomial (given for instance by an arithmetic circuit) is identically equal to 0. In this paper, we show that a deterministic black-box identity testing algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Pascal Koiran

Determining solving-time certificates of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) implementations is a pressing requirement when deploying NMPC in production environments. Such a certificate guarantees that the NMPC controller returns a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Liang Wu , Krystian Ganko , Richard D. Braatz

Strong bisimilarity on normed BPA is polynomial-time decidable, while weak bisimilarity on totally normed BPA is NP-hard. It is natural to ask where the computational complexity of branching bisimilarity on totally normed BPA lies. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Chaodong He

Equivalence testing for a polynomial family {g_m} over a field F is the following problem: Given black-box access to an n-variate polynomial f(x), where n is the number of variables in g_m, check if there exists an A in GL(n,F) such that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Janaky Murthy , Vineet Nair , Chandan Saha

This is the latest in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. In the previous papers, we have proved that the sat CNF problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Stepan G. Margaryan

This text is a development of a preprint of Ankit Gupta. We present an approach for devising a deterministic polynomial time blackbox identity testing (PIT) algorithm for depth-$4$ circuits with bounded top fanin. This approach is similar…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alexey Milovanov

We prove the first unconditional consistency result for superpolynomial circuit lower bounds with a relatively strong theory of bounded arithmetic. Namely, we show that the theory V$^0_2$ is consistent with the conjecture that NEXP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Albert Atserias , Sam Buss , Moritz Müller

A hitting-set generator (HSG) is a polynomial map $G:\mathbb{F}^k \to \mathbb{F}^n$ such that for all $n$-variate polynomials $C$ of small enough circuit size and degree, if $C$ is nonzero, then $C\circ G$ is nonzero. In this paper, we give…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Zeyu Guo , Mrinal Kumar , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Noam Solomon

In this paper we show that the black-box polynomial identity testing for noncommutative polynomials $f\in\mathbb{F}\langle z_1,z_2,\cdots,z_n \rangle$ of degree $D$ and sparsity $t$, can be done in randomized $\poly(n,\log t,\log D)$ time.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-07 V. Arvind , Partha Mukhopadhyay , S. Raja

We study arithmetic proof systems P_c(F) and P_f(F) operating with arithmetic circuits and arithmetic formulas, respectively, that prove polynomial identities over a field F. We establish a series of structural theorems about these proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Pavel Hrubes , Iddo Tzameret

We introduce an NP-complete graph decision problem, the "Multi-stage graph Simple Path" (abbr. MSP) problem, which focuses on determining the existence of specific "global paths" in a graph $G$. We show that the MSP problem can be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xinwen Jiang , Holden Wool

Motivated by the fundamental lower bounds questions in proof complexity, we initiate the study of matrix identities as hard instances for strong proof systems. A matrix identity of $d \times d$ matrices over a field $\mathbb{F}$, is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Fu Li , Iddo Tzameret

This paper studies the problem of, given the structure of a linear-time invariant system and a set of possible inputs, finding the smallest subset of input vectors that ensures system's structural controllability. We refer to this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Sergio Pequito , Soummya Kar , A. Pedro Aguiar

It has been known for almost three decades that many $\mathrm{NP}$-hard optimization problems can be solved in polynomial time when restricted to structures of constant treewidth. In this work we provide the first extension of such results…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Aiming to provide weak as possible axiomatic assumptions in which one can develop basic linear algebra, we give a uniform and integral version of the short propositional proofs for the determinant identities demonstrated over $GF(2)$ in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Iddo Tzameret , Stephen A. Cook