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A central challenge of applying near-term quantum optimization algorithms to industrially relevant problems is the need to incorporate complex constraints. In general, such constraints cannot be easily encoded in the circuit, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Tianyi Hao , Ruslan Shaydulin , Marco Pistoia , Jeffrey Larson

Determining the validity of a quantified Boolean formula (QBF) is a PSPACE-complete problem with rich expressive power. Despite interest in efficient solvers, there is, compared to problems in NP, a lack of positive theoretical results, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki

This paper explores the relationship between the condition number of a neural network's weight tensor and the extent of information encoded by the associated processing unit, viewed through the lens of information theory. It argues that a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Oswaldo Ludwig

Many existing global constraints can be encoded as a conjunction of among constraints. An among constraint holds if the number of the variables in its scope whose value belongs to a prespecified set, which we call its range, is within some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Victor Dalmau

We consider the class of conditional graph patterns (\emph{CGPs}) that allow user to query data graphs with complex patterns that contain negation and predicates. To overcome the prohibitive cost of subgraph isomorphism, we consider…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Houari Mahfoud

Recently, Brand, Ganian and Simonov introduced a parameterized refinement of the classical PAC-learning sample complexity framework. A crucial outcome of their investigation is that for a very wide range of learning problems, there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Robert Ganian , Liana Khazaliya , Kirill Simonov

In this paper we determine the complexity of a broad class of problems that extends the temporal constraint satisfaction problems. To be more precise we study the problems Poset-SAT($\Phi$), where $\Phi$ is a given set of quantifier-free…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Michael Kompatscher , Trung Van Pham

We define and investigate HC-forcing invariant formulas of set theory, whose interpretations in the hereditarily countable sets are well behaved under forcing extensions. This leads naturally to a notion of cardinality ||Phi|| for sentences…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Douglas Ulrich , Richard Rast , Michael C. Laskowski

We introduce combinatorial principles that characterize strong compactness and supercompactness for inaccessible cardinals but also make sense for successor cardinals. Their consistency is established from what is supposedly optimal.…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-12-10 Christoph Weiß

The object of investigation in this paper are vector nonlinear programming problems with cone constraints. We introduce the notion of a Fritz John pseudoinvex cone-constrained vector problem. We prove that a problem with cone constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Vsevolod I. Ivanov

A wide range of problems can be modelled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), that is, a set of constraints that must be satisfied simultaneously. Constraints can either be represented extensionally, by explicitly listing allowed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Evgenij Thorstensen

This paper explores the consistency strength of The Proper Forcing Axiom ($\textsf{PFA}$) and the theory (T) which involves a variation of the Viale-Wei$\ss$ guessing hull principle. We show that (T) is consistent relative to a supercompact…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Nam Trang

This work addresses integrating probabilistic propositional logic constraints into the distribution encoded by a probabilistic circuit (PC). PCs are a class of tractable models that allow efficient computations (such as conditional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Soroush Ghandi , Benjamin Quost , Cassio de Campos

This paper analyzes to what extent it is possible to efficiently reduce the number of clauses in NP-hard satisfiability problems, without changing the answer. Upper and lower bounds are established using the concept of kernelization.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Bart M. P. Jansen , Astrid Pieterse

On the one hand, Constraint Satisfaction Problems allow one to declaratively model problems. On the other hand, propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) solvers can handle huge SAT instances. We thus present a technique to declaratively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Frédéric Lardeux , Eric Monfroy , Broderick Crawford , Ricardo Soto

Cardinality constraints in optimization are commonly of $L^0$-type, and they lead to sparsely supported optimizers. An efficient way of dealing with these constraints algorithmically, when the objective functional is convex, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Bastian Dittrich , Evelyn Herberg , Roland Herzog , Georg Müller

Using the concept of constant evasion to different sorts of suitable binary relations, we establish many cardinal invariants derived from the established cardinal invariants $\mathfrak{e}^\mathrm{const}_{n}$ and…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Miguel A. Cardona , Miroslav Repický

A canonical formalism and constraint analysis for discrete systems subject to a variational action principle are devised. The formalism is equivalent to the covariant formulation, encompasses global and local discrete time evolution moves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Bianca Dittrich , Philipp A Hoehn

Polar codes have attracted much recent attention as the first codes with low computational complexity that provably achieve optimal rate-regions for a large class of information-theoretic problems. One significant drawback, however, is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi , Michelle Effros

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of improvement of the widely-used filtering algorithm for the linear constraints in constraint satisfaction problems in the presence of the alldifferent constraints. In many cases, the fact that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Milan Banković