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Homogenous Boolean function is an essential part of any cryptographic system. The ability to construct an optimized reversible circuits for homogeneous Boolean functions might arise the possibility of building cryptographic system on novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 Ahmed Younes

We introduce two types of message passing algorithms for quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). The first type is a message passing based heuristics that can prove unsatisfiability of the QBF by assigning the universal variables in such a way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Pan Zhang , Abolfazl Ramezanpour , Lenka Zdeborová , Riccardo Zecchina

Mapping functions on bits to Hamiltonians acting on qubits has many applications in quantum computing. In particular, Hamiltonians representing Boolean functions are required for applications of quantum annealing or the quantum approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Stuart Hadfield

Fourier analysis on the Boolean hypercube is fundamentally defined as the orthogonal decomposition of the space of pseudo-Boolean functions with respect to the uniform probability measure. In this work, we propose an ANOVA-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Baptiste Ferrere , Nicolas Bousquet , Fabrice Gamboa , Jean-Michel Loubes , Joseph Muré

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) is recognized as a unifying framework for modeling a wide range of problems. Problems can be solved with commercial solvers customized for solving QUBO and since QUBO have degree two, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Amit Verma , Mark Lewis , Gary Kochenberger

We introduce and investigate symbolic proof systems for Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) operating on Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs). These systems capture QBF solvers that perform symbolic quantifier elimination, and as such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Stefan Mengel , Friedrich Slivovsky

Boolean tensor has been broadly utilized in representing high dimensional logical data collected on spatial, temporal and/or other relational domains. Boolean Tensor Decomposition (BTD) factorizes a binary tensor into the Boolean sum of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Changlin Wan , Wennan Chang , Tong Zhao , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Boolean functional synthesis is a fundamental problem in computer science with wide-ranging applications and has witnessed a surge of interest resulting in progressively improved techniques over the past decade. Despite intense algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Priyanka Golia , Subhajit Roy , Kuldeep S. Meel

This paper presents an integer decomposition method. The method first writes an integer as a polynomial with 2 as variable that its coefficients are zero or one. Then, suppose that an integer is decomposed into product of such two…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Puyun Gao

Boolean matrix has been used to represent digital information in many fields, including bank transaction, crime records, natural language processing, protein-protein interaction, etc. Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) aims to find an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Changlin Wan , Wennan Chang , Tong Zhao , Mengya Li , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) has many applications in data mining, bioinformatics, and network analysis. The goal of BMF is to decompose a given binary matrix as the Boolean product of two smaller binary matrices, revealing underlying…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Juliann Geraci , Alexander B. Kunin , Alexandra Seceleanu

It is well-known that every quantified boolean formula (QBF) can be transformed into a prenex QBF whose only boolean operators are negation, conjunction, and disjunction. It is also well-known that the transformation is polynomial if the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Abdallah Saffidine , Andreas Herzig

Several effective preprocessing techniques for Boolean formulas with and without quantifiers use unit propagation to simplify the formula. Among these techniques are vivification, unit propagation look-ahead (UPLA), and the identification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ralf Wimmer , Ming-Yi Hu

Quantified Boolean logic results from adding operators to Boolean logic for existentially and universally quantifying variables. This extends the reach of Boolean logic by enabling a variety of applications that have been explored over the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Adnan Darwiche , Pierre Marquis

Boolean Skolem function synthesis concerns synthesizing outputs as Boolean functions of inputs such that a relational specification between inputs and outputs is satisfied. This problem, also known as Boolean functional synthesis, has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Preey Shah , Aman Bansal , S. Akshay , Supratik Chakraborty

We give a complexity dichotomy for the problem of computing the partition function of a weighted Boolean constraint satisfaction problem. Such a problem is parameterized by a set of rational-valued functions, which generalize constraints.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Andrei Bulatov , Martin Dyer , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Markus Jalsenius , David Richerby

Quantifier elimination (QE) and Craig interpolation (CI) are central to various state-of-the-art automated approaches to hardware and software verification. They are rooted in the Boolean setting and are successful for, e.g., first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kevin Batz , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Nora Orhan

Q-resolution is a proof system for quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs) in prenex conjunctive normal form (PCNF) which underlies search-based QBF solvers with clause and cube learning (QCDCL). With the aim to derive and learn stronger clauses…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Florian Lonsing , Uwe Egly , Martina Seidl

We present an experimental study of the effects of quantifier alternations on the evaluation of quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solvers. The number of quantifier alternations in a QBF in prenex conjunctive normal form (PCNF) is directly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Florian Lonsing , Uwe Egly

We compare quantum and classical machines designed for learning an N-bit Boolean function in order to address how a quantum system improves the machine learning behavior. The machines of the two types consist of the same number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Seokwon Yoo , Jeongho Bang , Changhyoup Lee , Jinhyoung Lee