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Computational problems are classified into computable and uncomputable problems. If there exists an effective procedure (algorithm) to compute a problem then the problem is computable otherwise it is uncomputable. Turing machines can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Asad Khaliq

I describe my path to unconventionality in my exploration of theoretical and applied aspects of computation towards revealing the algorithmic and reprogrammable properties and capabilities of the world, in particular related to applications…

General Literature · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Hector Zenil

Compact representations of objects is a common concept in computer science. Automated planning can be viewed as a case of this concept: a planning instance is a compact implicit representation of a graph and the problem is to find a path (a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Christer Bäckström , Peter Jonsson

The Bandwidth Problem seeks for a simultaneous permutation of the rows and columns of the adjacency matrix of a graph such that all nonzero entries are as close as possible to the main diagonal. This work focuses on investigating novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Franz Rendl , Renata Sotirov , Christian Truden

In this work, we consider constrained stochastic optimization problems under hidden convexity, i.e., those that admit a convex reformulation via non-linear (but invertible) map $c(\cdot)$. A number of non-convex problems ranging from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Ilyas Fatkhullin , Niao He , Yifan Hu

This paper presents a combinatorial analog of topological complexity for finite spaces. We demonstrate that this coincides with the genuine topological complexity of the original finite space, and constitutes an upper bound for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Kohei Tanaka

In this note, we propose a framework for proving computational lower bounds in norm approximation by leveraging a reverse detection--estimation gap. The starting point is a testing problem together with an estimator whose error is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Runshi Tang , Yuefeng Han , Anru R. Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problems of enumerating minimal vertex covers and minimal dominating sets with capacity and/or connectivity constraints. We develop polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for these problems on bounded-degree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Kevin Mann , Yasuko Matsui , Hirotaka Ono

We study the complexity of deterministic and probabilistic inversions of partial computable functions on the reals.

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-14 George Barmpalias , Mingyang Wang , Xiaoyan Zhang

Computational complexity is a core theory of computer science, which dictates the degree of difficulty of computation. There are many problems with high complexity that we have to deal, which is especially true for AI. This raises a big…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chuyu Xiong

We introduce and study the random "locked" constraint satisfaction problems. When increasing the density of constraints, they display a broad "clustered" phase in which the space of solutions is divided into many isolated points. While the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-05 Lenka Zdeborová , Marc Mézard

Efficient methods to provide sub-optimal solutions to non-convex optimization problems with knowledge of the solution's sub-optimality would facilitate the widespread application of nonlinear optimal control algorithms. To that end,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Prithvi Akella , Aaron D. Ames

We design and analyze a novel accelerated gradient-based algorithm for a class of bilevel optimization problems. These problems have various applications arising from machine learning and image processing, where optimal solutions of the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

In the first part of this study, a convex-constrained penalized formulation was studied for a class of constant modulus (CM) problems. In particular, the error bound techniques were shown to play a vital role in providing exact penalization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Junbin Liu , Ya Liu , Wing-Kin Ma , Mingjie Shao , Anthony Man-Cho So

Representation learning, and interpreting learned representations, are key areas of focus in machine learning and neuroscience. Both fields generally use representations as a means to understand or improve a system's computations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Andrew Kyle Lampinen , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Katherine Hermann

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Samson Alva , Eduardo Dueñez , Jose Iovino , Claire Walton

We propose an algorithm for solving bound-constrained mathematical programs with complementarity constraints on the variables. Each iteration of the algorithm involves solving a linear program with complementarity constraints in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Kirches , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Paul Manns

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

In recent literature there are an increasing number of papers where the forbidden sets of difference equations are computed. We review and complete different attempts to describe the forbidden set and propose new perspectives for further…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Francisco Balibrea , Antonio Cascales

We give an overview of the 2022 Computational Geometry Challenge targeting the problem Minimum Partition into Plane Subsets, which consists of partitioning a given set of line segments into a minimum number of non-crossing subsets.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sándor P. Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Dominik Krupke , Stefan Schirra