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As inductive inference and machine learning methods in computer science see continued success, researchers are aiming to describe ever more complex probabilistic models and inference algorithms. It is natural to ask whether there is a…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Nathanael L. Ackerman , Cameron E. Freer , Daniel M. Roy

The notion of program sensitivity (aka Lipschitz continuity) specifies that changes in the program input result in proportional changes to the program output. For probabilistic programs the notion is naturally extended to expected…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Peixin Wang , Hongfei Fu , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Yuxin Deng , Ming Xu

In this paper, we consider a stochastic Model Predictive Control able to account for effects of additive stochastic disturbance with unbounded support, and requiring no restrictive assumption on either independence nor Gaussianity. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Martina Mammarella , Teodoro Alamo , Sergio Lucia , Fabrizio Dabbene

The notion of probability plays an important role in almost all areas of science and technology. In modern mathematics, however, probability theory means nothing other than measure theory, and the operational characterization of the notion…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Kohtaro Tadaki

This paper provides a new and more direct proof of the assertion that a Turing computable function of the natural numbers is primitive recursive if and only if the time complexity of the corresponding Turing machine is bounded by a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Daniel G. Schwartz

The notion of Las Vegas algorithms was introduced by Babai (1979) and can be defined in two ways: * In Babai's original definition, a randomized algorithm is called Las Vegas if it has a finitely bounded running time and certifiable random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Xinyu Fu , Yonggang Jiang , Yitong Yin

Contrary to the classical case, the relation between quantum programming languages and quantum Turing Machines (QTM) has not being fully investigated. In particular, there are features of QTMs that have not been exploited, a notable example…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Stefano Guerrini , Simone Martini , Andrea Masini

We consider a randomised version of Kleene's realisability interpretation of intuitionistic arithmetic in which computability is replaced with randomised computability with positive probability. In particular, we show that (i) the set of…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Merlin Carl , Lorenzo Galeotti , Robert Passmann

We study the weak call-by-value $\lambda$-calculus as a model for computational complexity theory and establish the natural measures for time and space -- the number of beta-reductions and the size of the largest term in a computation -- as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yannick Forster , Fabian Kunze , Marc Roth

We study randomness beyond $\Pi^1_1$-randomness and its Martin-L\"of type variant, introduced in \cite{MR2340241} and further studied in \cite{Continuous-higher-randomness}. The class given by the infinite time Turing machines (\ITTM s),…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl , Philipp Schlicht

We propose a definition of quantum computable functions as mappings between superpositions of natural numbers to probability distributions of natural numbers. Each function is obtained as a limit of an infinite computation of a quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Stefano Guerrini , Simone Martini , Andrea Masini

The lefthanded Lov\'asz local lemma (LLLL) is a generalization of the Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL), a powerful technique from the probabilistic method. We prove a computable version of the LLLL and use it to effectivize a collection of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Daniel Mourad

In computable analysis, sequences of rational numbers which effectively converge to a real number x are used as the (rho-) names of x. A real number x is computable if it has a computable name, and a real function f is computable if there…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Matthew S. Bauer , Xizhong Zheng

Performative prediction is a framework for learning models that influence the data they intend to predict. We focus on finding classifiers that are performatively stable, i.e. optimal for the data distribution they induce. Standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mehrnaz Mofakhami , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Gauthier Gidel

Real-life agents seldom have unlimited reasoning power. In this paper, we propose and study a new formal notion of computationally bounded strategic ability in multi-agent systems. The notion characterizes the ability of a set of agents to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Catalin Dima , Wojciech Jamroga

Can a probabilistic gambler get arbitrarily rich when all deterministic gamblers fail? We study this problem in the context of algorithmic randomness, introducing a new notion -- almost everywhere computable randomness. A binary sequence…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Laurent Bienvenu , Valentino Delle Rose , Tomasz Steifer

The notion of probability plays an important role in almost all areas of science and technology. In modern mathematics, however, probability theory means nothing other than measure theory, and the operational characterization of the notion…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Kohtaro Tadaki

It is common practice to compare the computational power of different models of computation. For example, the recursive functions are strictly more powerful than the primitive recursive functions, because the latter are a proper subset of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Udi Boker , Nachum Dershowitz

In the theory of algorithmic randomness, one of the central notions is that of computable randomness. An infinite binary sequence X is computably random if no recursive martingale (strategy) can win an infinite amount of money by betting on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Laurent Bienvenu , Frank Stephan , Jason Teutsch

A nonconstructive proof can be used to prove the existence of an object with some properties without providing an explicit example of such an object. A special case is a probabilistic proof where we show that an object with required…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Andrei Rumyantsev , Alexander Shen