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We consider planning with uncertainty in the initial state as a case study of incremental quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solving. We report on experiments with a workflow to incrementally encode a planning instance into a sequence of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Uwe Egly , Martin Kronegger , Florian Lonsing , Andreas Pfandler

Many quantum algorithms can be analyzed in a query model to compute Boolean functions where input is given by a black box. As in the classical version of decision trees, different kinds of quantum query algorithms are possible: exact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-24 Alina Dubrovska Vasilieva

Decision of whether a Boolean equation system has a solution is an NPC problem and finding a solution is NP hard. In this paper, we present a quantum algorithm to decide whether a Boolean equation system FS has a solution and compute one if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Yu-Ao Chen , Xiao-Shan Gao

In this paper we analyze the performance of Warning Propagation, a popular message passing algorithm. We show that for 3CNF formulas drawn from a certain distribution over random satisfiable 3CNF formulas, commonly referred to as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Uriel Feige , Elchanan Mossel , Dan Vilenchik

Large complexity classes, like the exponential time hierarchy, received little attention in terms of finding complete problems. In this work a generalization of propositional logic is investigated which fills this gap with the introduction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Martin Lück

We exploit symmetries to give short proofs for two prominent formula families of QBF proof complexity. On the one hand, we employ symmetry breakers. On the other hand, we enrich the (relatively weak) QBF resolution calculus Q-Res with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Manuel Kauers , Martina Seidl

The problem of learning Boolean linear functions from quantum examples w.r.t. the uniform distribution can be solved on a quantum computer using the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm. A similar strategy can be applied in the case of noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Matthias C. Caro

This letter is a proof of concept for quantum power flow (QPF) algorithms which underpin various unprecedentedly efficient power system analytics exploiting quantum computing. Our contributions are three-fold: 1) Establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Fei Feng , Yifan Zhou , Peng Zhang

Although a quantum state requires exponentially many classical bits to describe, the laws of quantum mechanics impose severe restrictions on how that state can be accessed. This paper shows in three settings that quantum messages have only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Scott Aaronson

We propose two models of random quantified boolean formulas and their natural random disjunctive logic program counterparts. The models extend the standard models of random k-CNF formulas and the Chen-Interian model of random 2QBFs. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Giovanni Amendola , Francesco Ricca , Miroslaw Truszczynski

In this manuscript, a general method for deriving filtering algorithms that involve a network of interconnected Bayesian filters is proposed. This method is based on the idea that the processing accomplished inside each of the Bayesian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Giorgio M. Vitetta , Pasquale Di Viesti , Emilio Sirignano , Francesco Montorsi

QBFs (quantified boolean formulas), which are a superset of propositional formulas, provide a canonical representation for PSPACE problems. To overcome the inherent complexity of QBF, significant effort has been invested in developing QBF…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Mikolas Janota , Radu Grigore , Joao Marques-Silva

This paper presents a complete algorithmic study of the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem under the classical computation and quantum computation theories. The paper depicts deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, propositions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Carlos Barrón-Romero

This talk surveys the recent development of message passing procedures for solving constraint satisfaction problems. The cavity method from statistical physics provides a generalization of the belief propagation strategy that is able to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Mezard

The quantified Boolean formula (QBF) problem is an important decision problem generally viewed as the archetype for PSPACE-completeness. Many problems of central interest in AI are in general not included in NP, e.g., planning, model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , George Osipov , Sebastian Ordyniak , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki

We study the satisfiability of randomly generated formulas formed by $M$ clauses of exactly $K$ literals over $N$ Boolean variables. For a given value of $N$ the problem is known to be most difficult with $\alpha=M/N$ close to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Braunstein , M. Mezard , R. Zecchina

Quantum computing has become increasingly practical in solving real-world problems due to advances in hardware and algorithms. In this paper, we aim to design and estimate quantum machine learning and hybrid quantum-classical models in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Leyang Wang , Yilun Gong , Zongrui Pei

In the phase retrieval problem one seeks to recover an unknown $n$ dimensional signal vector $\mathbf{x}$ from $m$ measurements of the form $y_i = |(\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x})_i|$, where $\mathbf{A}$ denotes the sensing matrix. Many algorithms…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Rishabh Dudeja , Milad Bakhshizadeh

The alternation of existential and universal quantifiers in a quantified boolean formula (QBF) generates dependencies among variables that must be respected when evaluating the formula. Dependency schemes provide a general framework for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Friedrich Slivovsky , Stefan Szeider

We discuss quantum algorithms, based on the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm, for finding which variables a Boolean function depends on. There are 2^n possible linear Boolean functions of n variables; given a linear Boolean function, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 Dominik F. Floess , Erika Andersson , Mark Hillery