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Discrete structures are currently second-class in differentiable programming. Since functions over discrete structures lack overt derivatives, differentiable programs do not differentiate through them and limit where they can be used. For…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Joey Velez-Ginorio , Nada Amin , Konrad Kording , Steve Zdancewic

We give extensional and intensional characterizations of functional programs with nondeterminism: as structure preserving functions between biorders, and as nondeterministic sequential algorithms on ordered concrete data structures which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 James Laird

Decomposable Negation Normal Forms (DNNFs) are Boolean circuits in negation normal form where the subcircuits leading into each AND gate are defined on disjoint sets of variables. We prove a strongly exponential lower bound on the size of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Simone Bova , Florent Capelli , Stefan Mengel , Friedrich Slivovsky

We determine the complexity of counting models of bounded size of specifications expressed in Linear-time Temporal Logic. Counting word models is #P-complete, if the bound is given in unary, and as hard as counting accepting runs of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Hazem Torfah , Martin Zimmermann

A natural model of read-once linear branching programs is a branching program where queries are $\mathbb{F}_2$ linear forms, and along each path, the queries are linearly independent. We consider two restrictions of this model, which we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Svyatoslav Gryaznov , Pavel Pudlák , Navid Talebanfard

We extend the well known characterization of $\vpws$ as the class of polynomials computed by polynomial size arithmetic branching programs to other complexity classes. In order to do so we add additional memory to the computation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Stefan Mengel

Solving (mixed) integer linear programs, (M)ILPs for short, is a fundamental optimization task. While hard in general, recent years have brought about vast progress for solving structurally restricted, (non-mixed) ILPs: $n$-fold, tree-fold,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Cornelius Brand , Martin Koutecký , Sebastian Ordyniak

We extend our techniques developed in our earlier paper appeared in Computational Complexity, 2017 (preprint: arXiv:1508.00690) to obtain a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for computing the non-commutative rank together with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Gábor Ivanyos , Youming Qiao , K. V. Subrahmanyam

This paper studies propositional proof systems in which lines are sequents of decision trees or branching programs - deterministic and nondeterministic. The systems LDT and LNDT are propositional proof systems in which lines represent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Sam Buss , Anupam Das , Alexander Knop

Non deterministic applications arise in many domains, including, stochastic optimization, multi-objectives optimization, stochastic planning, contingent stochastic planning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning in partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Emad Saad

This paper investigates linear programming based branch-and-bound using general disjunctions, also known as stabbing planes, for solving integer programs. We derive the first sub-exponential lower bound (in the encoding length $L$ of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Max Gläser , Marc E. Pfetsch

Circuits in deterministic decomposable negation normal form (d-DNNF) are representations of Boolean functions that enable linear-time model counting. This paper strengthens our theoretical knowledge of what classes of functions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Alexis de Colnet , Stefan Szeider , Tianwei Zhang

We call a CNF formula linear if any two clauses have at most one variable in common. We show that there exist unsatisfiable linear k-CNF formulas with at most 4k^2 4^k clauses, and on the other hand, any linear k-CNF formula with at most…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Dominik Scheder

Non-deterministic read-once branching programs, also known as non-deterministic free binary decision diagrams (nFBDD), are a fundamental data structure in computer science for representing Boolean functions. In this paper, we focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Kuldeep S. Meel , Alexis de Colnet

Model counting is a fundamental problem that consists of determining the number of satisfying assignments for a given Boolean formula. The weighted variant, which computes the weighted sum of satisfying assignments, has extensive…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 L. Sunil Chandran , Rishikesh Gajjala , Kuldeep S. Meel

In this paper, we prove super-polynomial lower bounds for the model of \emph{sum of ordered set-multilinear algebraic branching programs}, each with a possibly different ordering ($\sum \mathsf{smABP}$). Specifically, we give an explicit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Prerona Chatterjee , Deepanshu Kush , Shubhangi Saraf , Amir Shpilka

We investigate the minimum cases for realtime probabilistic machines that can define uncountably many languages with bounded error. We show that logarithmic space is enough for realtime PTMs on unary languages. On binary case, we follow the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Maksims Dimitrijevs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

LLM (large language model) practitioners commonly notice that outputs can vary for the same inputs under settings expected to be deterministic. Yet the questions of how pervasive this is, and with what impact on results, have not to our…

We develop a framework for approximation limits of polynomial-size linear programs from lower bounds on the nonnegative ranks of suitably defined matrices. This framework yields unconditional impossibility results that are applicable to any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Gábor Braun , Samuel Fiorini , Sebastian Pokutta , David Steurer

We significantly strengthen and generalize the theorem lifting Nullstellensatz degree to monotone span program size by Pitassi and Robere (2018) so that it works for any gadget with high enough rank, in particular, for useful gadgets such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Susanna F. de Rezende , Or Meir , Jakob Nordström , Toniann Pitassi , Robert Robere , Marc Vinyals