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Numerical reasoning is an essential ability for NLP systems to handle numeric information. Recent research indicates that fine-tuning a small-scale model to learn generating reasoning processes alongside answers can significantly enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Dingzirui Wang , Longxu Dou , Xuanliang Zhang , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

We consider coding schemes for computationally bounded channels, which can introduce an arbitrary set of errors as long as (a) the fraction of errors is bounded with high probability by a parameter $p$ and (b) the process which adds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

The application of Genetic Programming to the discovery of empirical laws is often impaired by the huge size of the search space, and consequently by the computer resources needed. In many cases, the extreme demand for memory and CPU is due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Alain Ratle , Michèle Sebag

Building on work by Alfonseca et al. (2021), we study the conditions necessary for it to be logically possible to prove that an arbitrary artificially intelligent machine will exhibit certain behavior. To do this, we develop a formalism…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Matthew Fox

The main aim of the paper is to give a short self-contained proof of the decidability of language equivalence for deterministic pushdown automata, which is the famous problem solved by G. Senizergues, for which C. Stirling has derived a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-10 Petr Jancar

We study the growth behaviour of rational linear recurrence sequences. We show that for low-order sequences, divergence is decidable in polynomial time. We also exhibit a polynomial-time algorithm which takes as input a divergent rational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Shaull Almagor , Brynmor Chapman , Mehran Hosseini , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

The linear programming (LP) approach is, together with value iteration and policy iteration, one of the three fundamental methods to solve optimal control problems in a dynamic programming setting. Despite its simple formulation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Lucia Falconi , Andrea Martinelli , John Lygeros

There has been a great deal of work establishing that random linear codes are as list-decodable as uniformly random codes, in the sense that a random linear binary code of rate $1 - H(p) - \epsilon$ is $(p,O(1/\epsilon))$-list-decodable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Ray Li , Mary Wootters

Automated software verification is a very active field of research which has made enormous progress both in theoretical and practical aspects. Recently, an important amount of research effort has been put into applying these techniques on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Guido de Caso , Diego Garbervetsky , Daniel Gorín

Classical existence theorems and solution methods for quadratic programming traditionally rely on the analytical properties of real numbers, specifically compactness and completeness. These tools are unavailable in general linearly ordered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dmytro O. Plutenko

Code reasoning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) in the code domain. It involves understanding and predicting a program's execution behavior, such as determining the output for a given input or whether a specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lingxiao Tang , He Ye , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Lingfeng Bao

The study of the fundamental limits of information systems is a central theme in information theory. Both the traditional analytical approach and the recently proposed computational approach have significant limitations, where the former is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wenjing Chen , Chao Tian

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable progress in complex problem-solving tasks. Despite this success, LRMs typically suffer from high computational costs during deployment, highlighting a need for efficient inference. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hao Zeng , Jianguo Huang , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei , Bo An

Term rewriting systems have a simple syntax and semantics and facilitate proofs of correctness. However, they are not as popular in industry or academia as imperative languages. We define a term rewriting based abstract programming language…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-08 David Plaisted , Lee Barnett

In this paper, we study Reiter's propositional default logic when the treewidth of a certain graph representation (semi-primal graph) of the input theory is bounded. We establish a dynamic programming algorithm on tree decompositions that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Irina Schindler

Tiwari proved that termination of linear programs (loops with linear loop conditions and updates) over the reals is decidable through Jordan forms and eigenvectors computation. Braverman proved that it is also decidable over the integers.…

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In the study of random access machines (RAMs) it has been shown that the availability of an extra input integer, having no special properties other than being sufficiently large, is enough to reduce the computational complexity of some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Michael Brand

The avoidability of binary patterns by binary cube-free words is investigated and the exact bound between unavoidable and avoidable patterns is found. All avoidable patterns are shown to be D0L-avoidable. For avoidable patterns, the growth…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Robert Mercas , Pascal Ochem , Alexei V. Samsonov , Arseny M. Shur