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In this work, we consider the satisfiability problem in a logic that combines word equations over string variables denoting words of unbounded lengths, regular languages to which words belong and Presburger constraints on the length of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Quang Loc Le

We study the fundamental tradeoffs between computational tractability and statistical accuracy for a general family of hypothesis testing problems with combinatorial structures. Based upon an oracle model of computation, which captures the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-31 Zhaoran Wang , Quanquan Gu , Han Liu

We investigate the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problem for probabilistic computation-tree logic (PCTL) where operators are not restricted by any step bounds. We establish decidability for several fragments containing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Jan Křetínský , Alexej Rotar

We consider the hardness of approximation of optimization problems from the point of view of definability. For many NP-hard optimization problems it is known that, unless P = NP, no polynomial-time algorithm can give an approximate solution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Albert Atserias , Anuj Dawar

This paper depicts an algorithm for solving the Decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem using the binary numerical properties of a Special Decision Satisfiability Problem, parallel execution, object oriented, and short termination. The two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero

We study the topological $\mu$-calculus, based on both Cantor derivative and closure modalities, proving completeness, decidability and FMP over general topological spaces, as well as over $T_0$ and $T_D$ spaces. We also investigate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Alexandru Baltag , Nick Bezhanishvili , David Fernández-Duque

We investigate the complexity of the satisfiability problem for a modal logic expressing `knowing how' assertions, related to an agent's abilities to achieve a certain goal. We take one of the most standard semantics for this kind of logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Carlos Areces , Valentin Cassano , Raul Fervari , Pablo Castro , Andres Saravia

Computing the simulation preorder of a given Kripke structure (i.e., a directed graph with $n$ labeled vertices) has crucial applications in model checking of temporal logic. It amounts to solving a specific two-players reachability game,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Massimo Cairo , Romeo Rizzi

We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of the first-order logic extended with modulo counting quantifiers and interpreted over finite words or trees. We prove a small-model property of this logic, which gives a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Witold Charatonik

Among the approximation methods for the verification of counter systems, one of them consists in model-checking their flat unfoldings. Unfortunately, the complexity characterization of model-checking problems for such operational models is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Stéphane Demri , Amit Kumar Dhar , Arnaud Sangnier

The complexity of a computational problem is traditionally quantified based on the hardness of its worst case. This approach has many advantages and has led to a deep and beautiful theory. However, from the practical perspective, this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Yonatan Bilu , Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Michael Saks

In this paper we consider a fragment of the first-order theory of the real numbers that includes systems of equations of continuous functions in bounded domains, and for which all functions are computable in the sense that it is possible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Peter Franek , Stefan Ratschan , Piotr Zgliczynski

We provide a first-order oracle complexity lower bound for finding stationary points of min-max optimization problems where the objective function is smooth, nonconvex in the minimization variable, and strongly concave in the maximization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Haochuan Li , Yi Tian , Jingzhao Zhang , Ali Jadbabaie

While test-time scaling has enabled large language models to solve highly difficult tasks, state-of-the-art results come at exorbitant compute costs. These inefficiencies can be attributed to the miscalibration of post-trained language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Cai Zhou , Zekai Wang , Menghua Wu , Qianyu Julie Zhu , Flora C. Shi , Chenyu Wang , Ashia Wilson , Tommi Jaakkola , Stephen Bates

We show that the model-checking problem is decidable for a fragment of the epistemic \mu-calculus. The fragment allows free variables within the scope of epistemic modalities in a restricted form that avoids constructing formulas embodying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Rodica Bozianu , Cătălin Dima , Constantin Enea

The task of inferring logical formulas from examples has garnered significant attention as a means to assist engineers in creating formal specifications used in the design, synthesis, and verification of computing systems. Among various…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider

There is a wide range of modal logics whose semantics goes beyond relational structures, and instead involves, e.g., probabilities, multi-player games, weights, or neighbourhood structures. Coalgebraic logic serves as a unifying semantic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Oliver Görlitz , Daniel Hausmann , Merlin Humml , Dirk Pattinson , Simon Prucker , Lutz Schröder

In this paper, we consider the satisfiability problem for string logic with equations, regular membership and Presburger constraints over length functions. The difficulty comes from multiple occurrences of string variables making…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Quang Loc Le

We revisit the satisfiability problem for two-variable logic, denoted by SAT(FO2), which is known to be NEXP-complete. The upper bound is usually derived from its well known Exponential Size Model (ESM) property. Whether it can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ting-Wei Lin , Chia-Hsuan Lu , Tony Tan

We give the first ExpTime (complexity-optimal) tableau decision procedure for checking satisfiability of a knowledge base in the description logic SHOQ, which extends the basic description logic ALC with transitive roles, hierarchies of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Linh Anh Nguyen , Joanna Golińska-Pilarek