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Bender et al. (SPAA 2013) have proposed a theoretical framework for testing in contexts where safety mistakes must be avoided. Testing in such a context is made by machines that need to be often calibrated. Given that calibration costs, it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Vincent Chau , Vassilis Zissimopoulos

We say that a function is rare-case hard against a given class of algorithms (the adversary) if all algorithms in the class can compute the function only on an $o(1)$-fraction of instances of size $n$ for large enough $n$. Starting from any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tejas Nareddy , Abhishek Mishra

In the first of this pair of papers, it was proven that that no physical computer can correctly carry out all computational tasks that can be posed to it. The generality of this result follows from its use of a novel definition of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-02 David H. Wolpert

Experimental science usually relies on laboratory procedures that, after finitely many steps, terminate with numerical reports on physical quantities. This paper argues that such procedures can be understood as algorithmic once the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Isaac Pérez Castillo

Computational complexity characterizes the usage of spatial and temporal resources by computational processes. In the classical theory of computation, e.g. in the Turing Machine model, computational processes employ only local space and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Chris Fields , James F. Glazebrook , Antonino Marciano , Emanuele Zappala

We show that probabilistic computable functions, i.e., those functions outputting distributions and computed by probabilistic Turing machines, can be characterized by a natural generalization of Church and Kleene's partial recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Ugo Dal Lago , Sara Zuppiroli

In this article, we give evidence that computing Fourier coefficients of the Hecke eigenforms for composite indices is no easier than factoring integers. In particular, we show that the existence of a polynomial time algorithm that, given…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-08-13 Eric Bach , Denis Charles

When a group acts on a set, it naturally partitions it into orbits, giving rise to orbit problems. These are natural algorithmic problems, as symmetries are central in numerous questions and structures in physics, mathematics, computer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peter Bürgisser , Mahmut Levent Doğan , Visu Makam , Michael Walter , Avi Wigderson

We present the Polar framework for fully automating the analysis of classical and probabilistic loops using algebraic reasoning. The central theme in Polar comes with handling algebraic recurrences that precisely capture the loop semantics.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Marcel Moosbrugger , Julian Müllner , Ezio Bartocci , Laura Kovács

This paper proposes a thought experiment to search for efficient bounded algorithms of NPC problems by machine enumeration. The key contributions are: -- On Universal Turing Machines, a program's time complexity should be characterized as:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-09 YuQian Zhou

Partiality is a natural phenomenon in computability that we cannot get around. So, the question is whether we can give the areas where partiality occurs, that is, where non-termination happens, more structure. In this paper we consider…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Dieter Spreen

Bellantoni and Cook have given a function-algebra characterization of the polynomial-time computable functions via an unbounded recursion scheme which is called safe recursion. Inspired by their work, we characterize the exponential-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-03-05 Toshiyasu Arai , Naohi Eguchi

We introduce a concept of efficiency for which we can prove that it applies to all paddable languages, but still does not conflict with potential worst case intractability. Note that the family of paddable languages apparently includes all…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Andras Farago

By using of analytical multi-logic expresses in conjunction with non-deterministic Turing machine the proposition was proved that algorithm of deterministic Turing counter machine of polynomial time complexity can be decreased to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Algirdas Antano Maknickas

We study a class of functional problems reducible to computing $f^{(n)}(x)$ for inputs $n$ and $x$, where $f$ is a polynomial-time bijection. As we prove, the definition is robust against variations in the type of reduction used in its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Eppstein

Standard approaches to probabilistic reasoning require that one possesses an explicit model of the distribution in question. But, the empirical learning of models of probability distributions from partial observations is a problem for which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Brendan Juba

A conjecture of Jozsa (arXiv:quant-ph/0508124) states that any polynomial-time quantum computation can be simulated by polylogarithmic-depth quantum computation interleaved with polynomial-depth classical computation. Separately, Aaronson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Matthew Coudron , Sanketh Menda

Quantum theory (QT) has been confirmed by numerous experiments, yet we still cannot fully grasp the meaning of the theory. As a consequence, the quantum world appears to us paradoxical. Here we shed new light on QT by having it follow from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Alessio Benavoli , Alessandro Facchini , Marco Zaffalon

The standard operational probabilistic framework (within which we can formulate Operational Quantum Theory) is time asymmetric. This is clear because the conditions on allowed operations are time asymmetric. It is odd, though, because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Lucien Hardy

In previous work, we have combined computable structure theory and algorithmic learning theory to study which families of algebraic structures are learnable in the limit (up to isomorphism). In this paper, we measure the computational power…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Nikolay Bazhenov , Luca San Mauro