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The Ackermann function is a famous total recursive binary function on the natural numbers. It is the archetypal example of such a function that is not primitive recursive, in the sense of classical recursion theory. However, and in seeming…

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Measuring how quickly iterative methods converge is essential in computational mathematics, but current approaches have significant limitations. Q-order analysis requires strict smoothness conditions, while R-order analysis lacks precision…

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Existing tensor completion formulation mostly relies on partial observations from a single tensor. However, tensors extracted from real-world data are often more complex due to: (i) Partial observation: Only a small subset (e.g., 5%) of…

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Reversible computation is an emerging computing paradigm that allows any sequence of operations to be executed in reverse order at any point during computation. Its appeal lies in its potential for lowpower computation and its relevance to…

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Machine learning techniques are increasingly powerful, leading to many breakthroughs in the natural sciences, but they are often stochastic, error-prone, and blackbox. How, then, should they be utilized in fields such as theoretical physics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Sergei Gukov , James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

Tick is a statistical learning library for Python~3, with a particular emphasis on time-dependent models, such as point processes, and tools for generalized linear models and survival analysis. The core of the library is an optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-16 Emmanuel Bacry , Martin Bompaire , Stéphane Gaïffas , Soren Poulsen

What do recurrent neural networks, polynomial ODEs, and discrete polynomial maps each bring to computation, and what do they lack? All three operate over the continuum--real-valued states evolved by real-valued dynamics--even when the…

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We introduce a class of trainable nonlinear operators based on semirings that are suitable for use in neural networks. These operators generalize the traditional alternation of linear operators with activation functions in neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bart M. N. Smets , Peter D. Donker , Jim W. Portegies

Tropical Geometry and Mathematical Morphology share the same max-plus and min-plus semiring arithmetic and matrix algebra. In this chapter we summarize some of their main ideas and common (geometric and algebraic) structure, generalize and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Petros Maragos , Emmanouil Theodosis

The tropical rank of a semimodule of rational functions on a metric graph mirrors the concept of rank in linear algebra. Defined in terms of the maximal number of tropically independent elements within the semimodule, this quantity has…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Omid Amini , Stéphane Gaubert , Lucas Gierczak

Recently, many techniques have been introduced that allow the (automated) classification of the runtime complexity of term rewrite systems (TRSs for short). In earlier work, the authors have shown that for confluent TRSs, innermost…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser

Guarded recursion is a powerful modal approach to recursion that can be seen as an abstract form of step-indexing. It is currently used extensively in separation logic to model programming languages with advanced features by solving domain…

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We study a tropical linear regression problem consisting in finding the best approximation of a set of points by a tropical hyperplane. We establish a strong duality theorem, showing that the value of this problem coincides with the maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Yang Qi , Omar Saadi

It is well known that general recursion cannot be expressed within Martin-Loef's type theory and various approaches have been proposed to overcome this problem still maintaining the termination of the computation of the typable terms. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Claudio Sacerdoti Coen , Silvio Valentini

A recursion operator is an integro-differential operator which maps a generalized symmetry of a nonlinear PDE to a new symmetry. Therefore, the existence of a recursion operator guarantees that the PDE has infinitely many higher-order…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-01-08 D. E. Baldwin , W. Hereman

The authors' ATR programming formalism is a version of call-by-value PCF under a complexity-theoretically motivated type system. ATR programs run in type-2 polynomial-time and all standard type-2 basic feasible functionals are ATR-definable…

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Clocked Type Theory (CloTT) is a type theory for guarded recursion useful for programming with coinductive types, allowing productivity to be encoded in types, and for reasoning about advanced programming language features using an abstract…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Bassel Mannaa , Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg

Reservoir computing is a recently introduced machine learning paradigm that has been shown to be well-suited for the processing of spatiotemporal data. Rather than training the network node connections and weights via backpropagation in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Ashley Prater

Reservoir Computing Networks (RCNs) belong to a group of machine learning techniques that project the input space non-linearly into a high-dimensional feature space, where the underlying task can be solved linearly. Popular variants of RCNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Peter Steiner , Azarakhsh Jalalvand , Simon Stone , Peter Birkholz

Motivated by recent results of Kapron and Steinberg (LICS 2018) we introduce new forms of iteration on length in the setting of applied lambda-calculi for higher-type poly-time computability. In particular, in a type-two setting, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Bruce M. Kapron , Florian Steinberg