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By nature, transmissible human knowledge is enumerable: every sentence, movie, audio record can be encoded in a sufficiently long string of 0's and 1's. The works of G\"odel, Turing and others showed that there are inherent limits and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Frédéric Prost

We start by an introduction to the basic concepts of computability theory and the introduction of the concept of Turing machine and computation universality. Then se turn to the exploration of trade-offs between different measures of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

Recursive analysis was introduced by A. Turing [1936], A. Grzegorczyk [1955], and D. Lacombe [1955]. It is based on a discrete mechanical framework that can be used to model computation over the real numbers. In this context the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Walid Gomaa

Cost functions provide a framework for constructions of sets Turing below the halting problem that are close to computable. We carry out a systematic study of cost functions. We relate their algebraic properties to their expressive…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Andre Nies

We define a generalization of the Turing machine that computes on general sets. Our main theorem states that the class of generalized Turing machine computable functions and the class of Set Recursive functions coincide.

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Garvin Melles

We show that quantum circuits where the initial state and all the following quantum operations can be represented by positive Wigner functions can be classically efficiently simulated. This is true both for continuous-variable as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Mari , J. Eisert

This paper discusses "computational" systems capable of "computing" functions not computable by predefined Turing machines if the systems are not isolated from their environment. Roughly speaking, these systems can change their finite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-08-03 Kurt Ammon

We study the computational model of polygraphs. For that, we consider polygraphic programs, a subclass of these objects, as a formal description of first-order functional programs. We explain their semantics and prove that they form a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Guillaume Bonfante , Yves Guiraud

A word-to-word function is rational if it can be realized by a non-deterministic one-way transducer. Over finite words, it is a classical result that any rational function is regular, i.e. it can be computed by a deterministic two-way…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Olivier Carton , Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

Computing the expectation of kernel functions is a ubiquitous task in machine learning, with applications from classical support vector machines to exploiting kernel embeddings of distributions in probabilistic modeling, statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Wenzhe Li , Zhe Zeng , Antonio Vergari , Guy Van den Broeck

Given a computable probability measure P over natural numbers or infinite binary sequences, there is no computable, randomized method that can produce an arbitrarily large sample such that none of its members are outliers of P.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Samuel Epstein

This paper concerns algorithms that give correct answers with (asymptotic) density $1$. A dense description of a function $g : \omega \to \omega$ is a partial function $f$ on $\omega$ such that $\left\{n : f(n) = g(n)\right\}$ has density…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Eric P. Astor , Denis R. Hirschfeldt , Carl G. Jockusch

We study the computational power of randomized computations on infinite objects, such as real numbers. In particular, we introduce the concept of a Las Vegas computable multi-valued function, which is a function that can be computed on a…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Vasco Brattka , Guido Gherardi , Rupert Hölzl

We prove that every computably enumerable (c.e.) random real is provable in Peano Arithmetic (PA) to be c.e. random. A major step in the proof is to show that the theorem stating that "a real is c.e. and random iff it is the halting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-08 Cristian S. Calude , Nicholas J. Hay

Computational models typically assume that operations are applied in a fixed sequential order. In recent years several works have looked at relaxing this assumption, considering computations without any fixed causal structure and showing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Alastair A. Abbott , Mehdi Mhalla , Pierre Pocreau

We study closed choice principles for different spaces. Given information about what does not constitute a solution, closed choice determines a solution. We show that with closed choice one can characterize several models of…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Vasco Brattka , Matthew de Brecht , Arno Pauly

The Turing machine halting problem can be explained by several factors, including arithmetic logic irreversibility and memory erasure, which contribute to computational uncertainty due to information loss during computation. Essentially,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yair Lapin

Partial correctness of imperative or functional programming divides in logic programming into two notions. Correctness means that all answers of the program are compatible with the specification. Completeness means that the program produces…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Włodzimierz Drabent

Using nonstandard analysis, we will extend the classical Turing machines into the internal Turing machines. The internal Turing machines have the capability to work with infinite ($*$-finite) number of bits while keeping the finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

We examine various categorical structures that can and cannot be constructed. We show that total computable functions can be mimicked by constructible functors. More generally, whatever can be done by a Turing machine can be constructed by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Noson S. Yanofsky