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Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) offer a versatile architecture for unsupervised machine learning that can in principle approximate any target probability distribution with arbitrary accuracy. However, the RBM model is usually not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Lennart Dabelow , Masahito Ueda

Automata networks are a versatile model of finite discrete dynamical systems composed of interacting entities (the automata), able to embed any directed graph as a dynamics on its space of configurations (the set of vertices, representing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Aliénor Goubault-Larrecq , Kévin Perrot

In this paper we consider the state complexity of an operation on formal languages, root(L). This naturally entails the discussion of the monoid of transformations of a finite set. We obtain good upper and lower bounds on the state…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bryan Krawetz , John Lawrence , Jeffery Shallit

It is shown that, for every $n \geqslant 2$, the maximum length of the shortest string accepted by an $n$-state direction-determinate two-way finite automaton is exactly $\binom{n}{\lfloor\frac{n}{2}\rfloor}-1$ (direction-determinate…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Olga Martynova , Alexander Okhotin

The theoretical existence of Busy Beaver numbers provides a new notion for decidability and corresponding heuristic for conjectures. The minimum number of states in which a conjecture can be modeled gives a classification of what logic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Gurpreet Tandi , Josue Gonzalez-Hendrix , Jonathan Brown

Infinite words, also known as streams, hold significant interest in computer science and mathematics, raising the natural question of how their complexity should be measured. We introduce cellular automaton reducibility as a measure of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Markel Zubia , Herman Geuvers

New theoretical results are presented here on the recently introduced model called mixed states MRF. Such models were introduced in the context of image motion analysis and are useful to represent information which can take both discrete…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-04-17 Bruno Cernuschi-Frias

The linear space hypothesis is a practical working hypothesis, which originally states the insolvability of a restricted 2CNF Boolean formula satisfiability problem parameterized by the number of Boolean variables. From this hypothesis, it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We consider the computational complexity of a problem modeling bribery in the context of voting systems. In the scenario of Swap Bribery, each voter assigns a certain price for swapping the positions of two consecutive candidates in his…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Britta Dorn , Ildikó Schlotter

We study the computational complexity of determining whether a cellular automaton is sensitive to initial conditions. We show that this problem is $\Pi^0_2$-complete in dimension 1 and $\Sigma^0_3$-complete in dimension 2 and higher. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tom Favereau , Ville Salo

We introduce LAM, a subsystem of IMALL2 with restricted additive rules able to manage duplication linearly, called linear additive rules. LAM is presented as the type assignment system for a calculus endowed with copy constructors, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Gianluca Curzi

This paper focuses on greedy expansions, one possible representation of numbers, and on arithmetical operations with them. Performing addition or multiplication some additional digits can appear. We study bounds on the number of such digits…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Magdaléna Tinková

The scaling of fluctuations in the distribution of ground-state energies or costs with the system size N for Ising spin glasses is considered using an extensive set of simulations with the Extremal Optimization heuristic across a range of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-20 Stefan Boettcher

We introduce "binding complexity", a new notion of circuit complexity which quantifies the difficulty of distributing entanglement among multiple parties, each consisting of many local degrees of freedom. We define binding complexity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-18 Vijay Balasubramanian , Matthew DeCross , Arjun Kar , Onkar Parrikar

We analyse the complexity of the satisfiability problem ssmSAT for State Space Models (SSM), which asks whether an input sequence can lead the model to an accepting configuration. We find that ssmSAT is undecidable in general, reflecting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange

We develop greedy algorithms to approximate the optimal solution to the multi-fidelity sensor selection problem, which is a cost constrained optimization problem prescribing the placement and number of cheap (low signal-to-noise) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Emily Clark , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

We enumerate the state diagrams of the twist knot shadow which consist of the disjoint union of two trivial knots. The result coincides with the maximal number of regions into which the plane is divided by a given number of circles. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Franck Ramaharo

The state complexity of a regular language is the number of states in a minimal deterministic finite automaton accepting the language. The syntactic complexity of a regular language is the cardinality of its syntactic semigroup. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Janusz A. Brzozowski , Marek Szykuła , Yuli Ye

We consider the arithmetic complexity of index sets of uniformly computably enumerable families learnable under different learning criteria. We determine the exact complexity of these sets for the standard notions of finite learning,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Achilles Beros

We provide quantitative bounds on the characterisation of multiparticle separable states by states that have locally symmetric extensions. The bounds are derived from two-particle bounds and relate to recent studies on quantum versions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Matthias Christandl