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The PCP Theorem is one of the most stunning results in computational complexity theory, a culmination of a series of results regarding proof checking it exposes some deep structure of computational problems. As a surprising side-effect, it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Luke Mathieson

Random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) such as random $3$-SAT are conjectured to be computationally intractable. The average case hardness of random $3$-SAT and other CSPs has broad and far-reaching implications on problems in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Jonah Brown-Cohen , Prasad Raghavendra

We present an algorithm for efficiently approximating of qubit unitaries over gate sets derived from totally definite quaternion algebras. It achieves $\varepsilon$-approximations using circuits of length $O(\log(1/\varepsilon))$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Alex Bocharov , Martin Roetteler , Jon Yard

Inspired by the developments in quantum computing, building domain-specific classical hardware to solve computationally hard problems has received increasing attention. Here, by introducing systematic sparsification techniques, we…

$ \newcommand{\problem}[1]{\ensuremath{\mathrm{#1}} } \newcommand{\SVP}{\problem{SVP}} \newcommand{\ensuremath}[1]{#1} $We prove the following quantitative hardness results for the Shortest Vector Problem in the $\ell_p$ norm ($\SVP_p$),…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Divesh Aggarwal , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto

This paper proves that the computational power of quantum interactive proof systems, with a double-exponentially small gap in acceptance probability between the completeness and soundness cases, is precisely characterized by EXP, the class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 Tsuyoshi Ito , Hirotada Kobayashi , John Watrous

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of $\mathsf{BPTIME}$: proving hierarchy theorems and showing the existence of complete problems. Our main contributions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Rahul Santhanam

In the maximum satisfiability problem (MAX-SAT) we are given a propositional formula in conjunctive normal form and have to find an assignment that satisfies as many clauses as possible. We study the parallel parameterized complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Max Bannach , Malte Skambath , Till Tantau

ChatGPT, a large-scale language model based on the advanced GPT-3.5 architecture, has shown remarkable potential in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, there is currently a dearth of comprehensive study exploring its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Tao Fang , Shu Yang , Kaixin Lan , Derek F. Wong , Jinpeng Hu , Lidia S. Chao , Yue Zhang

We study a variant of the sparse PCA (principal component analysis) problem in the "hard" regime, where the inference task is possible yet no polynomial-time algorithm is known to exist. Prior work, based on the low-degree likelihood ratio,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Gérard Ben Arous , Alexander S. Wein , Ilias Zadik

Batteryless IoT systems face energy constraints exacerbated by checkpointing overhead. Approximate computing offers solutions but demands manual expertise, limiting scalability. This paper presents CheckMate, an automated framework…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Abdur-Rahman Ibrahim Sayyid-Ali , Abdul Rafay , Muhammad Abdullah Soomro , Muhammad Hamad Alizai , Naveed Anwar Bhatti

A $(k \times l)$-birthday repetition $\mathcal{G}^{k \times l}$ of a two-prover game $\mathcal{G}$ is a game in which the two provers are sent random sets of questions from $\mathcal{G}$ of sizes $k$ and $l$ respectively. These two sets are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Pasin Manurangsi , Prasad Raghavendra

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

The field of fine-grained complexity aims at proving conditional lower bounds on the time complexity of computational problems. One of the most popular assumptions, Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH), implies that SAT cannot be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Tatiana Belova , Alexander S. Kulikov , Ivan Mihajlin , Olga Ratseeva , Grigory Reznikov , Denil Sharipov

Any satisfiability problem in conjunctive normal form can be solved in polynomial time by reducing it to a 3-sat formulation and transforming this to a Linear Complementarity problem (LCP) which is then solved as a linear program (LP). Any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Giacomo Patrizi

We design composite controlled-phase gates, which compensate errors in the phase of a single gate. The errors can be of various nature, such as relative, absolute or both. We present composite sequences which are robust to relative errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Svetoslav S. Ivanov , Nikolay V. Vitanov

We introduce a framework for robust uncertainty quantification in situations where labeled training data are corrupted, through noisy or missing labels. We build on conformal prediction, a statistical tool for generating prediction sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shai Feldman , Stephen Bates , Yaniv Romano

This paper gives a QMA (Quantum Merlin-Arthur) protocol for 3-SAT with two logarithmic-size quantum proofs (that are not entangled with each other) such that the gap between the completeness and the soundness is Omega(1/n polylog(n)). This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Francois Le Gall , Shota Nakagawa , Harumichi Nishimura

We investigate the effect of a time-reversal breaking impurity term on both the equilibrium and non-equilibrium critical properties of entanglement entropy (EE) in a three-spin interacting transverse Ising model which can be mapped to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Tanay Nag , Atanu Rajak