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Compiling graphical models has recently been under intense investigation, especially for probabilistic modeling and processing. We present here a novel data structure for compiling weighted graphical models (in particular, probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Robert Mateescu , Rina Dechter

A classical question of propositional logic is one of the shortest proof of a tautology. A related fundamental problem is to determine the relative efficiency of standard proof systems, where the relative complexity is measured using the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Olga Tveretina

In this note we study the number of quantum queries required to identify an unknown multilinear polynomial of degree d in n variables over a finite field F_q. Any bounded-error classical algorithm for this task requires Omega(n^d) queries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Ashley Montanaro

We introduce and investigate symbolic proof systems for Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) operating on Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs). These systems capture QBF solvers that perform symbolic quantifier elimination, and as such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Stefan Mengel , Friedrich Slivovsky

Inspired by the recently introduced framework of AND/OR search spaces for graphical models, we propose to augment Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams (MDD) with AND nodes, in order to capture function decomposition structure and to extend these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Robert Mateescu , Rina Dechter , Radu Marinescu

We introduce Tree Decision Diagrams (TDD) as a model for Boolean functions that generalizes OBDD. They can be seen as a restriction of structured d-DNNF; that is, d-DNNF that respect a vtree $T$. We show that TDDs enjoy the same…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Florent Capelli , YooJung Choi , Stefan Mengel , Martín Muñoz , Guy Van den Broeck

We generalize many results concerning the tractability of SAT and #SAT on bounded treewidth CNF-formula in the context of Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF). To this end, we start by studying the notion of width for OBDD and observe that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Florent Capelli , Stefan Mengel

We investigate the randomized decision tree complexity of a specific class of read-once threshold functions. A read-once threshold formula can be defined by a rooted tree, every internal node of which is labeled by a threshold function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Nikos Leonardos

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

Classical branching programs are studied to understand the space complexity of computational problems. Prior to this work, Nakanishi and Ablayev had separately defined two different quantum versions of branching programs that we refer to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Debajyoti Bera , Tharrmashastha Sapv

Understanding the characteristics of neural networks is important but difficult due to their complex structures and behaviors. Some previous work proposes to transform neural networks into equivalent Boolean expressions and apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yiping Tang , Kohei Hatano , Eiji Takimoto

Bayesian network classifiers are used in many fields, and one common class of classifiers are naive Bayes classifiers. In this paper, we introduce an approach for reasoning about Bayesian network classifiers in which we explicitly convert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Hei Chan , Adnan Darwiche

Sentential decision diagrams (SDDs) introduced by Darwiche in 2011 are a promising representation type used in knowledge compilation. The relative succinctness of representation types is an important subject in this area. The aim of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Beate Bollig , Matthias Buttkus

We extend Probability Bracket Notation (PBN), inspired by the Dirac notation in quantum mechanics, to multivariable probability systems and static Bayesian networks (BNs). By defining probability distributions and conditional expectations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xing M. Wang

In this paper we study a model of a Quantum Branching Program (QBP) and investigate its computational power. We prove a general lower bound on the width of read-once QBPs, which we show to be almost tight on certain symmetric function.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Farid Ablayev , Aida Gainutdinova , Marek Karpinski

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are a widely used data structure for efficient Boolean function representation. Context-Free-Language Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (CFLOBDDs) are a recently introduced hierarchical data structure that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Meghana Aparna Sistla , Swarat Chaudhuri , Thomas W. Reps

In the field of parameterized complexity theory, the study of graph width measures has been intimately connected with the development of width-based model checking algorithms for combinatorial properties on graphs. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Sam Urmian

A typical system of k difference (or differential) equations can be compressed, or folded into a difference (or ordinary differential) equation of order k. Such foldings appear in control theory as the canonical forms of the controllability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-18 H. Sedaghat

Read-$k$ oblivious algebraic branching programs are a natural generalization of the well-studied model of read-once oblivious algebraic branching program (ROABPs). In this work, we give an exponential lower bound of $\exp(n/k^{O(k)})$ on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Matthew Anderson , Michael A. Forbes , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

We study the precise computational complexity of deciding satisfiability of first-order quantified formulas over the theory of fixed-size bit-vectors with binary-encoded bit-widths and constants. This problem is known to be in EXPSPACE and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Martin Jonáš , Jan Strejček