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Recent works explore deep learning's success by examining functions or data with hierarchical structure. To study the learning complexity of functions with hierarchical structure, we study the noise stability of functions with tree…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Rupert Li , Elchanan Mossel

We present a constructive method to create quantum circuits that implement oracles $|x\rangle|y\rangle|0\rangle^k \mapsto |x\rangle|y \oplus f(x)\rangle|0\rangle^k$ for $n$-variable Boolean functions $f$ with low $T$-count. In our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Giulia Meuli , Mathias Soeken , Earl Campbell , Martin Roetteler , Giovanni De Micheli

One matrix structure in the area of monotone Boolean functions is defined here. Some of its combinatorial, algebraic and algorithmic properties are derived. On the base of these properties, three algorithms are built. First of them…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Valentin Bakoev

We say that a circuit $C$ over a field $F$ functionally computes an $n$-variate polynomial $P$ if for every $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ we have that $C(x) = P(x)$. This is in contrast to syntactically computing $P$, when $C \equiv P$ as formal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Michael A. Forbes , Mrinal Kumar , Ramprasad Saptharishi

We show that for any constant $c>0$, any (two-sided error) adaptive algorithm for testing monotonicity of Boolean functions must have query complexity $\Omega(n^{1/2-c})$. This improves the $\tilde\Omega(n^{1/3})$ lower bound of [CWX17] and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mark Chen , Xi Chen , Hao Cui , William Pires , Jonah Stockwell

In this work we investigate into energy complexity, a Boolean function measure related to circuit complexity. Given a circuit $\mathcal{C}$ over the standard basis $\{\vee_2,\wedge_2,\neg\}$, the energy complexity of $\mathcal{C}$, denoted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Xiaoming Sun , Yuan Sun , Kewen Wu , Zhiyu Xia

This paper investigates the learnability of the nonlinearity property of Boolean functions using neural networks. We train encoder style deep neural networks to learn to predict the nonlinearity of Boolean functions from examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sriram Ranga , Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay

In the present note we prove an asymptotically tight relation between additive and multiplicative complexity of Boolean functions with respect to implementation by circuits over the basis {+,*,1}.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Igor S. Sergeev

A fundamental question in interpretability research is to what extent neural networks, particularly language models, implement reusable functions through subnetworks that can be composed to perform more complex tasks. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Philipp Mondorf , Sondre Wold , Barbara Plank

We explore a definition of complexity based on logic functions, which are widely used as compact descriptions of rules in diverse fields of contemporary science. Detailed numerical analysis shows that (i) logic complexity is effective in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-03-11 Marco Gherardi , Pietro Rotondo

It is already shown that a Boolean function for a NP-complete problem can be computed by a polynomial-sized circuit if its variables have enough number of automorphisms. Looking at this previous study from the different perspective gives us…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Satoshi Tazawa

Monotone systems constitute one of the most important classes of dynamical systems used in mathematical biology modeling. The objective of this paper is to extend the notion of monotonicity to systems with inputs and outputs, a necessary…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 David Angeli , Eduardo D. Sontag

We study depth lower bounds against non-monotone circuits, parametrized by a new measure of non-monotonicity: the orientation of a function $f$ is the characteristic vector of the minimum sized set of negated variables needed in any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Sajin Koroth , Jayalal Sarma

In this article, we continue our study on universal learning machine by introducing new tools. We first discuss boolean function and boolean circuit, and we establish one set of tools, namely, fitting extremum and proper sampling set. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Chuyu Xiong

Boolean circuits abstract away from physical details to focus on the logical structure and computational behaviour of digital components. Although such circuits have been studied for many decades, compositionality has been widely ignored or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Damian Arellanes

A long-investigated problem in circuit complexity theory is to decompose an $n$-input or $n$-variable Majority Boolean function (call it $M_n$) using $k$-input ones ($M_k$), $k < n$, where the objective is to achieve the decomposition using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Anupam Chattopadhyay , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Subhamoy Maitra

Learning monotonic models with respect to a subset of the inputs is a desirable feature to effectively address the fairness, interpretability, and generalization issues in practice. Existing methods for learning monotonic neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Xingchao Liu , Xing Han , Na Zhang , Qiang Liu

We generalize and extend the ideas in a recent paper of Chiarelli, Hatami and Saks to prove new bounds on the number of relevant variables for boolean functions in terms of a variety of complexity measures. Our approach unifies and refines…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Jake Wellens

The generating functional method is employed to investigate the synchronous dynamics of Boolean networks, providing an exact result for the system dynamics via a set of macroscopic order parameters. The topology of the networks studied and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-28 Alexander Mozeika , David Saad

A natural measure of smoothness of a Boolean function is its sensitivity (the largest number of Hamming neighbors of a point which differ from it in function value). The structure of smooth or equivalently low-sensitivity functions is still…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Parikshit Gopalan , Noam Nisan , Rocco A. Servedio , Kunal Talwar , Avi Wigderson