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The notion of nondeterminism has disappeared from the current definition of NP, which has led to ambiguities in understanding NP, and caused fundamental difficulties in studying the relation P versus NP. In this paper, we question the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Yu Li

Neural models combining representation learning and reasoning in an end-to-end trainable manner are receiving increasing interest. However, their use is severely limited by their computational complexity, which renders them unusable on real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Pasquale Minervini , Matko Bosnjak , Tim Rocktäschel , Sebastian Riedel

In the number partitioning problem (NPP) one aims to partition a given set of $N$ real numbers into two subsets with approximately equal sum. The NPP is a well-studied optimization problem and is famous for possessing a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Rushil Mallarapu , Mark Sellke

We consider the hardness of approximation of optimization problems from the point of view of definability. For many NP-hard optimization problems it is known that, unless P = NP, no polynomial-time algorithm can give an approximate solution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Albert Atserias , Anuj Dawar

We claim to resolve the P=?NP problem via a formal argument for P=NP.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Selmer Bringsjord , Joshua Taylor

Complexity theory as practiced by physicists and computational complexity theory as practiced by computer scientists both characterize how difficult it is to solve complex problems. Here it is shown that the parameters of a specific model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 S. N. Coppersmith

The problem of maximizing the $p$-th power of a $p$-norm over a halfspace-presented polytope in $\R^d$ is a convex maximization problem which plays a fundamental role in computational convexity. It has been shown in 1986 that this problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Christian Knauer , Stefan König , Daniel Werner

The question of whether all problems in NP class are also in P class is generally considered one of the most important open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science as it has far-reaching consequences to other problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Wenhong Tian

This paper presents a complete algorithmic study of the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem under the classical computation and quantum computation theories. The paper depicts deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, propositions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Carlos Barrón-Romero

We examine a proof by Craig Alan Feinstein that P is not equal to NP. We present counterexamples to claims made in his paper and expose a flaw in the methodology he uses to make his assertions. The fault in his argument is the incorrect use…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-06-15 Kyle Sabo , Ryan Schmitt , Michael Silverman

A resource-bounded version of the statement "no algorithm recognizes all non-halting Turing machines" is equivalent to an infinitely often (i.o.) superpolynomial speedup for the time required to accept any coNP-complete language and also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Hunter Monroe

We present an approximation notion for NP-hard optimization problems represented by binary functions. We prove that (assuming P != NP) the new notion is strictly stronger than FPTAS, but strictly weaker than having a polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Samuel Bismuth , Erel Segal-Halevi

In this article, we discuss the question of whether P equals NP, we do not follow the line of research of many researchers, which is to try to find such a problem Q, and the problem Q belongs to the class of NP-complete, if the problem Q is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jian-Gang Tang

We introduce a parallelizable simplification of Neural Turing Machine (NTM), referred to as P-NTM, which redesigns the core operations of the original architecture to enable efficient scan-based parallel execution. We evaluate the proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gabriel Faria , Arnaldo Candido Junior

Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed Ghanem , Dauod Siniora

The theory of computer science is based around Universal Turing Machines (UTMs): abstract machines able to execute all possible algorithms. Modern digital computers are physical embodiments of UTMs. The nondeterministic polynomial (NP) time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Andrew Currin , Konstantin Korovin , Maria Ababi , Katherine Roper , Douglas B. Kell , Philip J. Day , Ross D. King

Can the computational complexity theory of computer science and mathematics say something new about unresolved problems in quantum physics? Particularly, can the P versus NP question in the computational complexity theory be a factor in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Arkady Bolotin

The topical quantum computation paradigm is a transposition of the Turing machine into the quantum framework. Implementations based on this paradigm have limitations as to the number of: qubits, computation steps, efficient quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Castagnoli

Computational complexity is examined using the principle of increasing entropy. To consider computation as a physical process from an initial instance to the final acceptance is motivated because many natural processes have been recognized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Arto Annila

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao