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An important step to incorporate information in the second law of thermodynamics was done by Landauer, showing that the erasure of information implies an increase in heat. Most attempts to justify Landauer's erasure principle are based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-04 Xavier Oriols , Hrvoje Nikolić

We analyze the bit complexity of efficient algorithms for fundamental optimization problems, such as linear regression, $p$-norm regression, and linear programming (LP). State-of-the-art algorithms are iterative, and in terms of the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Richard Peng , Santosh S. Vempala

We propose a decision-theoretic framework for computational complexity, complementary to classical theory: moving from syntactic exactness (Turing / Shannon) to semantic simulability (Le Cam). While classical theory classifies problems by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Deniz Akdemir

We present a framework for upper bounding the number of iterations required by first-order optimization algorithms implementing constrained LQR controllers. We derive new bounds for the condition number and extremal eigenvalues of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Ian McInerney , Eric C. Kerrigan , George A. Constantinides

The Landauer principle states that any logically irreversible information processing must be accompanied by dissipation into the environment. In this study, we investigate the heat dissipation associated with finite-time information erasure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We demonstrate that its bounds are tight and so show that the costs overwhelm those implied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-28 Gregory W. Wimsatt , Alexander B. Boyd , Paul M. Riechers , James P. Crutchfield

Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed Ghanem , Dauod Siniora

The quantum statistics mechanism is very powerful for investigating the equilibrium states and the phase transitions in complex spin disorder systems. The spin disorder systems act as an interdisciplinary platform for solving the optimum…

General Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Zhidong Zhang

Atomic congestion games are a classic topic in network design, routing, and algorithmic game theory, and are capable of modeling congestion and flow optimization tasks in various application areas. While both the price of anarchy for such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Cornelius Brand , Robert Ganian , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Fionn Mc Inerney

Algorithmic efficiency is essential to reducing energy and time usage for computational problems. Optimizing efficiency is important for tasks involving multiple resources, for example in stochastic calculations where the size of the random…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Run Yan Teh , Manushan Thenabadu , Peter D Drummond

Let $X$ be a finite set in $Z^d$. We consider the problem of optimizing linear function $f(x) = c^T x$ on $X$, where $c\in Z^d$ is an input vector. We call it a problem $X$. A problem $X$ is related with linear program $\max\limits_{x \in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Aleksandr Maksimenko

Computational problems can be classified according to their algorithmic complexity, which is defined based on how the resources needed to solve the problem, e.g. the execution time, scale with the problem size. Many problems in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Davide Cirillo , Miguel Ponce-de-Leon , Alfonso Valencia

The Landauer's principle, a cornerstone of information thermodynamics, provides a fundamental lower bound on the energetic cost of information erasure in terms of the information content change. However, its traditional formulation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yuanyuan Xiao , Jian-Hua Jiang , Junjie Liu

Quantum information science currently poses a troubling contradiction. It can be summarized as: (1) To factor efficiently, quantum computers must perform exponentially precise energy estimation. (2) Exponentially precise energy estimation…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Liam P. McGuinness

We briefly address Landauer's Principle and some related issues in thermal demons. We show that an error-free Turing computer works in the zero-entropy limit, which proves Landauer's derivation incorrect. To have a physical logic gate,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Laszlo B. Kish , Claes-Goran Granqvist , Sunil P. Khatri , Janusz Smulko

Time irreversibility in neuronal dynamics has recently been demonstrated to correlate with various indicators of cognitive effort in living systems. Using Landauer's principle, which posits that time-irreversible information processing…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2023-10-24 Michele Vodret

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Simon Wiedemann , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

The main theme of this thesis is the development of computational methods for classes of infinite-dimensional optimization problems arising in optimal control and information theory. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Tobias Sutter

The question of what can be computed, and how efficiently, are at the core of computer science. Not surprisingly, in distributed systems and networking research, an equally fundamental question is what can be computed in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Fabian Kuhn , Thomas Moscibroda , Roger Wattenhofer

We provide a derivation of quantum theory in which the existence of an energy observable that generates the reversible dynamics follows directly from information-theoretic principles. Our first principle is that every reversible dynamics is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Lorenzo Giannelli , Giulio Chiribella