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The synthesis of Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) often involves demanding computations or a meticulous construction. However, structural properties of the system dynamics and constraints have the potential to mitigate these challenges. In…

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Classification of Non-linear Boolean functions is a long-standing problem in the area of theoretical computer science. In this paper, effort has been made to achieve a systematic classification of all n-variable Boolean functions, where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Ranjeet Kumar Rout , Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Sudhakar Sahoo

We characterize the set of properties of Boolean-valued functions on a finite domain $\mathcal{X}$ that are testable with a constant number of samples. Specifically, we show that a property $\mathcal{P}$ is testable with a constant number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Eric Blais , Yuichi Yoshida

The spectral norm of a Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}$ is the sum of the absolute values of its Fourier coefficients. This quantity provides useful upper and lower bounds on the complexity of a function in areas such as learning…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Anil Ada , Omar Fawzi , Hamed Hatami

NPN classification is an essential problem in the design and verification of digital circuits. Most existing works explored variable symmetries and cofactor signatures to develop their classification methods. However, cofactor signatures…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jiaxi Zhang , Shenggen Zheng , Liwei Ni , Huawei Li , Guojie Luo

We address the problem of finding optimal strategies for computing Boolean symmetric functions. We consider a collocated network, where each node's transmissions can be heard by every other node. Each node has a Boolean measurement and we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Hemant Kowshik , P. R. Kumar

We explore whether Neural Networks (NNs) can {\it discover} the presence of symmetries as they learn to perform a task. For this, we train hundreds of NNs on a {\it decoy task} based on well-controlled Physics templates, where no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Gabriela Barenboim , Johannes Hirn , Veronica Sanz

This paper studies the problem of testing whether a function is monotone from a nonparametric Bayesian perspective. Two new families of tests are constructed. The first uses constrained smoothing splines, together with a hierarchical…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-03 James G. Scott , Thomas S. Shively , Stephen G. Walker

Deep learning methods are powerful tools but often suffer from expensive computation and limited flexibility. An alternative is to combine light-weight models with deep representations. As successful cases exist in several visual problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Bin Yang , Junjie Yan , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Nested Cavity Classifier (NCC) is a classification rule that pursues partitioning the feature space, in parallel coordinates, into convex hulls to build decision regions. It is claimed in some literatures that this geometric-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Waleed A. Mustafa , Waleed A. Yousef

We prove that nested canalizing functions are the minimum-sensitivity Boolean functions for any given activity ratio and we characterize the sensitivity boundary which has a nontrivial fractal structure. We further observe, on an extensive…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-23 H. Coban , A. Kabakcioglu

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are emerging as a powerful class of generative models, as they not only allow for efficient sampling, but also deliver, by construction, density estimation. They are of great potential usage in High Energy Physics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-01 Humberto Reyes-Gonzalez , Riccardo Torre

A first step is taken towards understanding often observed non-robustness phenomena of deep neural net (DNN) classifiers. This is done from the perspective of Boolean functions by asking if certain sequences of Boolean functions represented…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are well established models capable of achieving state-of-the-art classification accuracy for various computer vision tasks. However, they are becoming increasingly larger, using millions of parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

Normalizing Flows (NFs) describe a class of models that express a complex target distribution as the composition of a series of bijective transformations over a simpler base distribution. By limiting the space of candidate transformations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Keegan Kelly , Lorena Piedras , Sukrit Rao , David Roth

The concept of rotation symmetric functions from the Boolean domain is extended to the multiple-valued (MV) domain. It is shown that symmetric functions are a subset of the rotation symmetric functions. Functions exhibiting these kinds of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Claudio Moraga

Canalization is a key organizing principle in complex systems, particularly in gene regulatory networks. It describes how certain input variables exert dominant control over a function's output, thereby imposing hierarchical structure and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Claus Kadelka

We introduce the Random Quadratic Form (RQF): a stochastic differential equation which formally corresponds to the gradient flow of a random quadratic functional on a sphere. While the one-point dynamics of the system is a Brownian motion…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Maximilian Engel , Anna Shalova

The noise sensitivity of a Boolean function $f: \{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ is one of its fundamental properties. A function of a positive noise parameter $\delta$, it is denoted as $NS_{\delta}[f]$. Here we study the algorithmic problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

A fuzzy Boolean function is a map $f:\cube^n\to [0,1]$, where $n\in\mathbb N$. We introduce and compare three ways of saying that such a function has bounded complexity. The first is a sampling property: the value $f(x)$ can be recovered,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Balazs Szegedy