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History-deterministic automata are a restricted class of nondeterministic automata where the nondeterminism while reading an input can be resolved successfully based on the prefix read so far. History-deterministic automata are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Keya Prakash

Can a problem undecidable with classical resources be decidable with quantum ones? The answer expected is no; as both being Turing theories, they should not solve the Halting problem - a problem unsolvable by any Turing machine. Yet, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Airin Antony

Suppose that a polynomial-time mixed-state quantum circuit, described as a sequence of local unitary interactions followed by a partial trace, generates a quantum state shared between two parties. One might then wonder, does this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Patrick Hayden , Kevin Milner , Mark M. Wilde

In this paper we consider a nondeterministic computation by deterministic multi-head 2-way automata having a read-only access to an auxiliary memory. The memory contains additional data (a guess) and computation is successful iff it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-18 M. N. Vyalyi

Automata over infinite objects are a well-established model with applications in logic and formal verification. Traditionally, acceptance in such automata is defined based on the set of states visited infinitely often during a run. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Antonio Casares

We study structural restrictions on biautomata such as, e.g., acyclicity, permutation-freeness, strongly permutation-freeness, and orderability, to mention a few. We compare the obtained language families with those induced by deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Markus Holzer , Sebastian Jakobi

Alternating automata have been widely used to model and verify systems that handle data from finite domains, such as communication protocols or hardware. The main advantage of the alternating model of computation is that complementation is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Radu Iosif , Xiao Xu

We determine the classical and quantum complexities of a specific ensemble of three-satisfiability problems with a unique satisfying assignment for up to N=100 and N=80 variables, respectively. In the classical limit we employ generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Neuhaus , M. Peschina , K. Michielsen , H. De Raedt

Alternating timed automata on infinite words are considered. The main result is a characterization of acceptance conditions for which the emptiness problem for these automata is decidable. This result implies new decidability results for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Pawel Parys , Igor Walukiewicz

Quantum mechanics is widely regarded as a complete theory, yet we argue it is a tractable projection of a deeper, computationally-inaccessible classical variational structure. By analyzing the coupled partial differential equations of the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Khaled Mnaymneh

The absent-minded driver's problem illustrates that probabilistic strategies can give higher pay-offs than deterministic ones. We show that there are strategies using quantum entangled states that give even higher pay-offs, both for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Adan Cabello , John Calsamiglia

We study two basic graph parameters, the chromatic number and the orthogonal rank, in the context of classical and quantum exact communication complexity. In particular, we consider two types of communication problems that we call promise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Jop Briët , Harry Buhrman , Debbie Leung , Teresa Piovesan , Florian Speelman

In this paper, I first establish -- via methods other than the Gottesman-Knill theorem -- the existence of an infinite set of instances of simulating a quantum circuit to decide a decision problem that can be simulated classically. I then…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Andrew Jackson

We study several problems related to properties of non-negative matrices that arise at the boundary between quantum and classical probabilistic computation. Our results are twofold. First, we identify a large class of quantum Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Sergey Bravyi , Barbara Terhal

One of the key obstacles in traditional deep learning is the reduction in model transparency caused by increasingly intricate model functions, which can lead to problems such as overfitting and excessive confidence in predictions. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maximilian Wendlinger , Kilian Tscharke , Pascal Debus

Coalgebra is a currently quite active field, which aims to look at generic state-based systems (most prominently automata) from a very abstract point of view, mainly using tools from category theory. One of its achievements is to give a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Meven Bertrand , Jurriaan Rot

Quantum advantage is notoriously hard to find and even harder to prove. For example the class of functions computable with classical physics actually exactly coincides with the class computable quantum-mechanically. It is strongly believed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Howard Dale , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph

We prove that endowing a real-time probabilistic or quantum computer with the ability of postselection increases its computational power. For this purpose, we provide a new model of finite automata with postselection, and compare it with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

Exclusive nondeterministic finite automata (XNFA) are nondeterministic finite automata with a special acceptance condition. An input is accepted if there is exactly one accepting path in its computation tree. If there are none or more than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher , Matthias Wendlandt

The Acceptance Probability Estimation Problem (APEP) is to additively approximate the acceptance probability of a Boolean circuit. This problem admits a probabilistic approximation scheme. A central question is whether we can design a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Peter Dixon , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran