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In various applications the search for certificates for certain properties (e.g., stability of dynamical systems, program termination) can be formulated as a quantified constraint solving problem with quantifier prefix exists-forall. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Milan Hladík , Stefan Ratschan

Graph generative models become increasingly effective for data distribution approximation and data augmentation. While they have aroused public concerns about their malicious misuses or misinformation broadcasts, just as what Deepfake…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yihan Ma , Zhikun Zhang , Ning Yu , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

This paper initiates the study of hidden variables from the discrete, abstract perspective of quantum computing. For us, a hidden-variable theory is simply a way to convert a unitary matrix that maps one quantum state to another, into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Aaronson

In this paper natural necessary and sufficient conditions for quantifier elimination of matrix rings $M_n(K)$ in the language of rings expanded by two unary functions, naming the trace and transposition, are identified. This is used…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Igor Klep , Marcus Tressl

We consider discrete linear Chebyshev approximation problems in which the unknown parameters of linear function are fitted by minimizing the maximum absolute deviation of errors. Such problems find application in the solution of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Nikolai Krivulin

Elimination of quantifiers is shown to fail dramatically for a group of well-known mathematical theories (classically enjoying the property) against a wide range of relevant logical backgrounds. Furthermore, it is suggested that only by…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Guillermo Badia , Andrew Tedder

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

As machine learning applications grow increasingly ubiquitous and complex, they face an increasing set of requirements beyond accuracy. The prevalent approach to handle this challenge is to aggregate a weighted combination of requirement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aneesh Barthakur , Luiz F. O. Chamon

Quantifier elimination theorems show that each formula in a certain theory is equivalent to a formula of a specific form -- usually a quantifier-free one, sometimes in an extended language. Model theoretic embedding tests are a frequently…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Henry Towsner

We provide the first systematic technique for deriving witnesses of contextuality in prepare-transform-measure scenarios. More specifically, we show how linear quantifier elimination can be used to compute a polytope of correlations…

This paper presents a novel approach to automatically solving arithmetic word problems. This is the first algorithmic approach that can handle arithmetic problems with multiple steps and operations, without depending on additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Subhro Roy , Dan Roth

Statistical sufficiency formalizes the notion of data reduction. In the decision theoretic interpretation, once a model is chosen all inferences should be based on a sufficient statistic. However, suppose we start with a set of procedures…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Vincent Q. Vu

Graph theory is important in information theory. We introduce a quantization process on graphs and apply the quantized graphs in quantum information. The quon language provides a mathematical theory to study such quantized graphs in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zhengwei Liu

We give a sufficient condition for a model theoretic structure $B$ to 'inherit' quantifier elimination from another structure $A$. This yields an alternative proof of one of the main result from \cite{kle}, namely quantifier elimination for…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Maximilian Illmer , Tim Netzer

Given a large dataset and an estimation task, it is common to pre-process the data by reducing them to a set of sufficient statistics. This step is often regarded as straightforward and advantageous (in that it simplifies statistical…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-31 Andrea Montanari

This paper reviews recent advances in missing data research using graphical models to represent multivariate dependencies. We first examine the limitations of traditional frameworks from three different perspectives: \textit{transparency,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-15 Karthika Mohan , Judea Pearl

This paper considers the problem of testing whether there exists a non-negative solution to a possibly under-determined system of linear equations with known coefficients. This hypothesis testing problem arises naturally in a number of…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-09-16 Zheng Fang , Andres Santos , Azeem M. Shaikh , Alexander Torgovitsky

We consider the use of Quantifier Elimination (QE) technology for automated reasoning in economics. There is a great body of work considering QE applications in science and engineering but we demonstrate here that it also has use in the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-11-01 C. Mulligan , J. H. Davenport , M. England

Several recent unsupervised learning methods use probabilistic approaches to solve combinatorial optimization (CO) problems based on the assumption of statistically independent solution variables. We demonstrate that this assumption imposes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Sebastian Sanokowski , Wilhelm Berghammer , Sepp Hochreiter , Sebastian Lehner

<p>We address the general problem of determining the validity of boolean combinations of equalities and inequalities between real-valued expressions. In particular, we consider methods of establishing such assertions using only restricted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Jeremy Avigad , Harvey Friedman