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Solving Algebra Problems with Geometry Diagrams (APGDs) is still a challenging problem because diagram processing is not studied as intensively as language processing. To work against this challenge, this paper proposes a hologram reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Litian Huang , Xinguo Yu , Feng Xiong , Bin He , Shengbing Tang , Jiawen Fu

Holant problems are a framework for the analysis of counting complexity problems on graphs. This framework is simultaneously general enough to encompass many other counting problems on graphs and specific enough to allow the derivation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Miriam Backens

The theory of holographic algorithms introduced by Valiant represents a novel approach to achieving polynomial-time algorithms for seemingly intractable counting problems via a reduction to counting planar perfect matchings and a linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Sitan Chen

Holographic algorithms are a recent breakthrough in computer science and has found applications in information theory. This paper provides a proof to the central component of holographic algorithms, namely, the Holant theorem. Compared with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-11 Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Yongyi Mao , Abbas Yongacoglu

We explore the intricate interdependent relationship among counting problems, considered from three frameworks for such problems: Holant Problems, counting CSP and weighted H-colorings. We consider these problems for general complex valued…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Jin-Yi Cai , Sangxia Huang , Pinyan Lu

Holographic algorithms, alternatively known as Pfaffian circuits, have received a great deal of attention for giving polynomial-time algorithms of $\#\mathsf{P}$-hard problems. Much work has been done to determine the extent of what this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Jacob Turner

Holant problems are a general framework to study the computational complexity of counting problems. It is a more expressive framework than counting constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) which are in turn more expressive than counting graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jin-Yi Cai , Jin Soo Ihm

On the Boolean domain, there is a class of symmetric signatures called ``Fibonacci gates'' for which a beautiful P-time combinatorial algorithm has been designed for the corresponding $\operatorname{Holant}$ problems. In this work, I give a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yin Liu

Given a polygon $H$ in the plane, the art gallery problem calls for fining the smallest set of points in $H$ from which every other point in $H$ is seen. We give a deterministic algorithm that, given any polygon $H$ with $h$ holes, $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Khaled Elbassioni

We prove a complexity dichotomy for a class of counting problems expressible as bipartite 3-regular Holant problems. For every problem of the form $\operatorname{Holant}\left(f\mid =_3 \right)$, where $f$ is any integer-valued ternary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan , Yin Liu

Holant problems are a family of counting problems on graphs, parametrised by sets of complex-valued functions of Boolean inputs. Holant^c denotes a subfamily of those problems, where any function set considered must contain the two unary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Miriam Backens

We present novel, deterministic, efficient algorithms to compute the symmetries of a planar algebraic curve, implicitly defined, and to check whether or not two given implicit planar algebraic curves are similar, i.e. equal up to a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Juan Gerardo Alcázar , Miroslav Lávička , Jan Vršek

Partitioning and grouping of similar objects plays a fundamental role in image segmentation and in clustering problems. In such problems a typical goal is to group together similar objects, or pixels in the case of image processing. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Dorit S. Hochbaum

In this paper we propose a method that uses Lagrange multipliers and numerical algebraic geometry to find all critical points, and therefore globally solve, polynomial optimization problems. We design a polyhedral homotopy algorithm that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Julia Lindberg , Leonid Monin , Kemal Rose

We investigate the complexity of parameterised holant problems p-$\mathrm{Holant}(\mathcal{S})$ for families of signatures $\mathcal{S}$. The parameterised holant framework was introduced by Curticapean in 2015 as a counter-part to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Panagiotis Aivasiliotis , Andreas Göbel , Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt

Partition functions, also known as homomorphism functions, form a rich family of graph invariants that contain combinatorial invariants such as the number of k-colourings or the number of independent sets of a graph and also the partition…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Martin Grohe , Mark Jerrum , Marc Thurley

Holant problem is a general framework to study the computational complexity of counting problems. We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for Holant problems over Boolean domain with non-negative weights. It is the first complete Holant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Jiabao Lin , Hanpin Wang

We represent vector bundles over a regular algebraic curve as pairs of lattices over the maximal orders of its function field and we give polynomial time algorithms for several tasks: computing determinants of vector bundles, kernels and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Mickaël Montessinos

An essential problem in the design of holographic algorithms is to decide whether the required signatures can be realized by matchgates under a suitable basis transformation (SRP). For holographic algorithms on domain size 2, [1, 2, 4, 5]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Zhiguo Fu , Fengqin Yang

We study the complexity of the parameterised counting constraint satisfaction problem: given a set of constraints over a set of variables and a positive integer $k$, how many ways are there to assign $k$ variables to 1 (and the others to 0)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Panagiotis Aivasiliotis , Andreas Göbel , Marc Roth