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While graphs and abstract data structures can be large and complex, practical instances are often regular or highly structured. If the instance has sufficient structure, we might hope to compress the object into a more succinct…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shreya Gupta , Boyang Huang , Russell Impagliazzo , Stanley Woo , Christopher Ye

We show that the regular separability problem of VASS reachability languages is decidable and $\mathbf{F}_{\omega}$-complete. At the heart of our decision procedure are doubly-marked graph transition sequences, a new proof object that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Eren Keskin , Roland Meyer

Usual math sets have special types: countable, compact, open, occasionally Borel, rarely projective, etc. Each such set is described by a single Set Theory formula with parameters unrelated to other formulas. Exotic expressions involving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Leonid A. Levin

In this lecture we show that the study of hadronic resonances is severely hampered by the lack of accurate data and, moreover, that for similar reason the study of Weak substructure does not make sufficient progress. We furthermore report…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-19 Eef van Beveren , Susana Coito , George Rupp

We prove the hardness of weakly learning halfspaces in the presence of adversarial noise using polynomial threshold functions (PTFs). In particular, we prove that for any constants $d \in \mathbb{Z}^+$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, it is NP-hard…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Suprovat Ghoshal , Rishi Saket

Without prior knowledge, distinguishing different languages may be a hard task, especially when their borders are permeable. We develop an extension of spectral clustering -- a powerful unsupervised classification toolbox -- that is shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Richard Nock , Pascal Vaillant , Frank Nielsen , Claudia Henry

This note is an attempt to unconditionally prove the existence of weak one way functions (OWF). Starting from a provably intractable decision problem $L_D$ (whose existence is nonconstructively assured from the well-known discrete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Stefan Rass

In this paper, we study the weighted difference substitutions from geometrical views. First, we give the geometric meanings of the weighted difference substitutions, and introduce the concept of convergence of the sequence of substitution…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-12-30 Xiaorong Hou , Song Xu , Junwei Shao

The accuracies for many pattern recognition tasks have increased rapidly year by year, achieving or even outperforming human performance. From the perspective of accuracy, pattern recognition seems to be a nearly-solved problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu , Ching Y. Suen

We deal with linear programming problems involving absolute values in their formulations, so that they are no more expressible as standard linear programs. The presence of absolute values causes the problems to be nonconvex and nonsmooth,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Milan Hladík , David Hartman

The manifold hypothesis presumes that high-dimensional data lies on or near a low-dimensional manifold. While the utility of encoding geometric structure has been demonstrated empirically, rigorous analysis of its impact on the learnability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bobak T. Kiani , Jason Wang , Melanie Weber

We prove first-order definability of the prime subring inside polynomial rings, whose coefficient rings are (commutative unital) reduced and indecomposable. This is achieved by means of a uniform formula in the language of rings with…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Marco Barone , Nicolás Caro , Eudes Naziazeno

In algebraic number theory, the finiteness of the Picard group of an order in a number field is generally proved via a lattice argument: the order forms a lattice and every ideal class contains an integral ideal with a small enough non-zero…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Daniël M. H. van Gent

Scaled Boolean algebras are a category of mathematical objects that arose from attempts to understand why the conventional rules of probability should hold when probabilities are construed, not as frequencies or proportions or the like, but…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Michael Hardy

SHAP explanations are a popular feature-attribution mechanism for explainable AI. They use game-theoretic notions to measure the influence of individual features on the prediction of a machine learning model. Despite a lot of recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Guy Van den Broeck , Anton Lykov , Maximilian Schleich , Dan Suciu

We show that materials made of scatterers distributed on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern can be transparent at densities for which an uncorrelated disordered material would be opaque due to multiple scattering. The conditions for…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-16 Olivier Leseur , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

Despite the enormous success of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in many disciplines, the characterization of their computations and the origin of key properties such as generalization and robustness remain open questions. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Nikos Karantzas , Emma Besier , Josue Ortega Caro , Xaq Pitkow , Andreas S. Tolias , Ankit B. Patel , Fabio Anselmi

Face Recognition (FR) is increasingly used in critical verification decisions and thus, there is a need for assessing the trustworthiness of such decisions. The confidence of a decision is often based on the overall performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Marco Huber , Philipp Terhörst , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer , Arjan Kuijper

What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair? Different papers use different notions of algorithmic fairness, and although these appear internally consistent, they also seem mutually incompatible. We present a mathematical setting in which…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Sorelle A. Friedler , Carlos Scheidegger , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Supervised machine learning models boast remarkable predictive capabilities. But can you trust your model? Will it work in deployment? What else can it tell you about the world? We want models to be not only good, but interpretable. And yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Zachary C. Lipton