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The article presents a system for testing the independence of solutions to algorithmic problems sent by students as part of the student programming competition. First, the context was discussed, as well as the need to organize programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Zenon Gniazdowski , Maciej Boniecki

We propose an algorithm for low rank matrix completion for matrices with binary entries which obtains explicit binary factors. Our algorithm, which we call TBMC (\emph{Tiling for Binary Matrix Completion}), gives interpretable output in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Melanie Beckerleg , Andrew Thompson

We consider the complexity of two questions on polynomials given by arithmetic circuits: testing whether a monomial is present and counting the number of monomials. We show that these problems are complete for subclasses of the counting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Hervé Fournier , Guillaume Malod , Stefan Mengel

Cryptographic primitives have been used for various non-cryptographic objectives, such as eliminating or reducing randomness and interaction. We show how to use cryptography to improve the time complexity of solving computational problems.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Or Zamir

The problem of inferring an inductive invariant for verifying program safety can be formulated in terms of binary classification. This is a standard problem in machine learning: given a sample of good and bad points, one is asked to find a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Siddharth Krishna , Christian Puhrsch , Thomas Wies

In nonadaptive group testing, the main research objective is to design an efficient algorithm to identify a set of up to $t$ positive elements among $n$ samples with as few tests as possible. Disjunct matrices and separable matrices are two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Bingchen Qian , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

We study the problem of learning differentiable functions expressed as programs in a domain-specific language. Such programmatic models can offer benefits such as composability and interpretability; however, learning them requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ameesh Shah , Eric Zhan , Jennifer J. Sun , Abhinav Verma , Yisong Yue , Swarat Chaudhuri

We present an end-to-end framework for generating solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with unknown components using transformer-based sequence-to-sequence neural networks. Our framework learns directly from past solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Macarena Navarro , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Karan Singh

In this paper, based on results of exact learning and test theory, we study arbitrary infinite binary information systems each of which consists of an infinite set of elements and an infinite set of two-valued functions (attributes) defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Mikhail Moshkov

In this article, we consider for the first time the operations of insertion and deletion working in a matrix controlled manner. We show that, similarly as in the case of context-free productions, the computational power is strictly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-24 Ion Petre , Sergey Verlan

The interest in channel models in which the data is sent as an unordered set of binary strings has increased lately, due to emerging applications in DNA storage, among others. In this paper we analyze the minimal redundancy of binary codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

The matrix completion problem aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix based on a revealed set of possibly noisy entries. Prior works consider completing the entire matrix with generalization error guarantees. However, the completion accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Elad Hazan , Adam Tauman Kalai , Varun Kanade , Clara Mohri , Y. Jennifer Sun

Combinatorial games lead to several interesting, clean problems in algorithms and complexity theory, many of which remain open. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the area to encourage further research. In particular, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Erik D. Demaine , Robert A. Hearn

We investigate the existence of heavy columns in binary matrices with distinct rows. A column of an m x n binary matrix is called heavy if the number of ones in it is at least m/2. We introduce two recursive algorithms, A1 and A2, that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jamolidin K. Abdurakhmanov

A burgeoning paradigm in algorithm design is the field of algorithms with predictions, in which algorithms can take advantage of a possibly-imperfect prediction of some aspect of the problem. While much work has focused on using predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

State-of-the-art machine learning algorithms demonstrate close to absolute performance in selected challenges. We provide arguments that the reason can be in low variability of the samples and high effectiveness in learning typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Egor Illarionov , Roman Khudorozhkov

Combinatorial evolution - the creation of new things through the combination of existing things - can be a powerful way to evolve rather than design technical objects such as electronic circuits. Intriguingly, this seems to be an ongoing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Sebastian Fix , Thomas Probst , Oliver Ruggli , Thomas Hanne , Patrik Christen

We develop a framework for combining differentiable programming languages with neural networks. Using this framework we create end-to-end trainable systems that learn to write interpretable algorithms with perceptual components. We explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Alexander L. Gaunt , Marc Brockschmidt , Nate Kushman , Daniel Tarlow

To witness quantum advantages in practical settings, substantial efforts are required not only at the hardware level but also on theoretical research to reduce the computational cost of a given protocol. Quantum computation has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Daniel K. Park , Carsten Blank , Francesco Petruccione

As instance of an overarching principle of exclusion an algorithm is presented that compactly (thus not one by one) generates all models of a Horn formula. The principle of exclusion can be adapted to generate only the models of weight $k$.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Marcel Wild