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We address two sets of long-standing open questions in probability theory, from a computational complexity perspective: divisibility of stochastic maps, and divisibility and decomposability of probability distributions. We prove that finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt

In this paper, we define and study variants of several complexity classes of decision problems that are defined via some criteria on the number of accepting paths of an NPTM. In these variants, we modify the acceptance criteria so that they…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Eleni Bakali , Aggeliki Chalki , Sotiris Kanellopoulos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stathis Zachos

A set is autoreducible if it can be reduced to itself by a Turing machine that does not ask its own input to the oracle. We use autoreducibility to separate the polynomial-time hierarchy from polynomial space by showing that all…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Harry Buhrman , Lance Fortnow , Leen Torenvliet , Dieter van Melkebeek

In this paper, we extend the techniques used in our previous work to show that there exists a probabilistic Turing machine running within time $O(n^k)$ for all $k\in\mathbb{N}_1$ accepting a language $L_d$ that is different from any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tianrong Lin

A resource-bounded version of the statement "no algorithm recognizes all non-halting Turing machines" is equivalent to an infinitely often (i.o.) superpolynomial speedup for the time required to accept any coNP-complete language and also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Hunter Monroe

Nonuniformity is a central concept in computational complexity with powerful connections to circuit complexity and randomness. Nonuniform reductions have been used to study the isomorphism conjecture for NP and completeness for larger…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-19 John M. Hitchcock , Hadi Shafei

This paper introduces a knowledge recognition algorithm (KRA) that is both a Turing machine algorithm and an Oracle Turing machine algorithm. By definition KRA is a non-deterministic language recognition algorithm. Simultaneously it can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Han Xiao Wen

We prove the NP-hardness of the problem whether a given word can be derived from a given regular grammar without repeated occurrence of any nonterminal.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Jochen Burghardt

A separator for two languages is a third language containing the first one and disjoint from the second one. We investigate the following decision problem: given two regular input languages, decide whether there exists a locally testable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Place , Lorijn van Rooijen , Marc Zeitoun

We address the separability problem for straight-line string constraints. The separability problem for languages of a class C by a class S asks: given two languages A and B in C, does there exist a language I in S separating A and B (i.e.,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Vrunda Dave , Shankara Narayanan Krishna

Determining whether a program terminates is a central problem in computer science. Turing's Halting Problem established termination as undecidable, showing that no algorithm can universally determine termination for all programs and inputs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oren Sultan , Jordi Armengol-Estape , Pascal Kesseli , Julien Vanegue , Dafna Shahaf , Yossi Adi , Peter O'Hearn

A generalization of numeration system in which the set N of the natural numbers is recognizable by finite automata can be obtained by describing a lexicographically ordered infinite regular language. Here we show that if P belonging to Q[x]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michel Rigo

This paper studies the computational complexity of disambiguation under probabilistic tree-grammars and context-free grammars. It presents a proof that the following problems are NP-hard: computing the Most Probable Parse (MPP) from a…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Khalil Sima'an

In this paper, we take a closer look at Czerwinski's "${\rm P}\neq{\rm NP}$ relative to a ${\rm P}$-complete oracle" [Cze23]. There are (uncountably) infinitely-many relativized worlds where ${\rm P}$ and ${\rm NP}$ differ, and it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Michael C. Chavrimootoo , Tran Duy Anh Le , Michael P. Reidy , Eliot J. Smith

Recently a great deal of attention has focused on quantum computation following a sequence of results suggesting that quantum computers are more powerful than classical probabilistic computers. Following Shor's result that factoring and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Charles H. Bennett , Ethan Bernstein , Gilles Brassard , Umesh Vazirani

Many natural combinatorial problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems. This class of problems is known to be NP-complete in general, but certain restrictions on the form of the constraints can ensure tractability. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

The paper explores known results related to the problem of identifying if a given program terminates on all inputs -- this is a simple generalization of the halting problem. We will see how this problem is related and the notion of proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Rina Panigrahy

We describe a method to axiomatize computations in deterministic Turing machines. When applied to computations in non-deterministic Turing machines, this method may produce contradictory (and therefore trivial) theories, considering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-27 Juan C. Agudelo , Walter Carnielli

Genetic Programming (GP) has found various applications. Understanding this type of algorithm from a theoretical point of view is a challenging task. The first results on the computational complexity of GP have been obtained for problems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Markus Wagner , Frank Neumann

We investigate the complexity of the reachability problem for (deep) neural networks: does it compute valid output given some valid input? It was recently claimed that the problem is NP-complete for general neural networks and conjunctive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Marco Sälzer , Martin Lange