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We design the first efficient polynomial identity testing algorithms over the nonassociative polynomial algebra. In particular, multiplication among the formal variables is commutative but it is not associative. This complements the strong…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Partha Mukhopadhyay , C Ramya , Pratik Shastri

We study the problem of PAC learning one-hidden-layer ReLU networks with $k$ hidden units on $\mathbb{R}^d$ under Gaussian marginals in the presence of additive label noise. For the case of positive coefficients, we give the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Nikos Zarifis

Algebraic independence is an advanced notion in commutative algebra that generalizes independence of linear polynomials to higher degree. Polynomials {f_1, ..., f_m} \subset \F[x_1, ..., x_n] are called algebraically independent if there is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Malte Beecken , Johannes Mittmann , Nitin Saxena

We show that the class of strongly connected graphical models with treewidth at most k can be properly efficiently PAC-learnt with respect to the Kullback-Leibler Divergence. Previous approaches to this problem, such as those of Chow ([1]),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Mukund Narasimhan , Jeff A. Bilmes

Traditionally, robust statistics has focused on designing estimators tolerant to a minority of contaminated data. Robust list-decodable learning focuses on the more challenging regime where only a minority $\frac 1 k$ fraction of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Daniel Kongsgaard , Jerry Li , Kevin Tian

Various networks are broadly and deeply applied in real-life applications. Reliability is the most important index for measuring the performance of all network types. Among the various algorithms, only implicit enumeration algorithms, such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Wei-Chang Yeh

The depth-$3$ model has recently gained much importance, as it has become a stepping-stone to understanding general arithmetic circuits. Its restriction to multilinearity has known exponential lower bounds but no nontrivial blackbox…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Manindra Agrawal , Rohit Gurjar , Arpita Korwar , Nitin Saxena

This paper is our second step towards developing a theory of testing monomials in multivariate polynomials. The central question is to ask whether a polynomial represented by an arithmetic circuit has some types of monomials in its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-07-19 Zhixiang Chen , Bin Fu , Yang Liu , Robert Schweller

This text is a development of a preprint of Ankit Gupta. We present an approach for devising a deterministic polynomial time blackbox identity testing (PIT) algorithm for depth-$4$ circuits with bounded top fanin. This approach is similar…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alexey Milovanov

Rational Identity Testing (RIT) is the decision problem of determining whether or not a noncommutative rational formula computes zero in the free skew field. It admits a deterministic polynomial-time white-box algorithm [Garg, Gurvits,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-14 V. Arvind , Abhranil Chatterjee , Partha Mukhopadhyay

Proving super-polynomial size lower bounds for syntactic multilinear Algebraic Branching Programs(smABPs) computing an explicit polynomial is a challenging problem in Algebraic Complexity Theory. The order in which variables in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-15 C. Ramya , B. V. Raghavendra Rao

Let C be a depth-3 circuit with n variables, degree d and top fanin k (called sps(k,d,n) circuits) over base field F. It is a major open problem to design a deterministic polynomial time blackbox algorithm that tests if C is identically…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nitin Saxena , C. Seshadhri

Differential algebra approaches to structural identifiability analysis of a dynamic system model in many instances heavily depend upon Ritt's pseudodivision at an early step in analysis. The pseudodivision algorithm is used to find the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Nicolette Meshkat , Chris Anderson , Joseph J. DiStefano

Since the breakthrough superpolynomial multilinear formula lower bounds of Raz (Theory of Computing 2006), proving such lower bounds against multilinear algebraic branching programs (mABPs) has been a longstanding open problem in algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Deepanshu Kush

We develop a framework using Hilbert spaces as a proxy to analyze PAC learning problems with structural properties. We consider a joint Hilbert space incorporating the relation between the true label and the predictor under a joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mohsen Heidari , Wojciech Szpankowski

The celebrated result of Kabanets and Impagliazzo (Computational Complexity, 2004) showed that PIT algorithms imply circuit lower bounds, and vice versa. Since then it has been a major challenge to understand the precise connections between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Robert Andrews , Deepanshu Kush , Roei Tell

It is known that there are classes of 2-CNFs requiring exponential size non-deterministic read-once branching programs to compute them. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no superpolynomial lower bounds for branching programs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Igor Razgon

In this work we study oblivious complexity classes. These classes capture the power of interactive proofs where the prover(s) are only given the input size rather than the actual input. In particular, we study the connections between the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Karthik Gajulapalli , Zeyong Li , Ilya Volkovich

We present an explicit pseudorandom generator for oblivious, read-once, width-$3$ branching programs, which can read their input bits in any order. The generator has seed length $\tilde{O}( \log^3 n ).$ The previously best known seed length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Thomas Steinke , Salil Vadhan , Andrew Wan

A model of computation for which reasonable yet still incomplete lower bounds are known is the read-once branching program. Here variants of complexity measures successful in the study of read-once branching programs are defined and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yaqiao Li , Pierre McKenzie